Halloween

 

I must admit that I do not celebrate Halloween. I am far too old for that. Halloween does not have a tradition in Germany - however why should kids not have fun with dressing up as witches, vampyres or skeletons? 

But I could not resist creating an image for Halloween - this time with Stablecog AI.

Have fun everyone!

Traditional Art vs AI Art?

 Many traditional artists reject AI Art. I consider myself a traditional artist also - having painted with acrylics, alcoholbased markers, gouache and other watermedia. In November 2022 I got in contact with Nightcafe Studio, and since then have created a lot of AI Art pieces. I must admit that for some time (actually some months) I did not touch a brush, opened a paint tube or painted with markers. 

But then I felt a rather heavy urge to do traditional art again, first with inktense pencils and then with acrylic inks. However I still continued creating art pieces with Artificial Intelligence Art Generators. For me it is not either that or this, it is both.

I like how I can apply acrylic ink on a surface (mostly watercolor paper) and how I can get various shades and hues by mixing those inks.

But I also like how to create images with words, to experiment with various art generators and the order of the words in a prompt. 

I am grateful that I have both ways to be creative!

The last days of October

 October is the month where days get shorter and colder; actually we here in Germany had some very warm and nice days - almost summer like. We also had some very wet and stormy days. Most of the leaves had been green for quite a long time, and then they turned brown and the wind swept them off the trees. 

However with AI Art Generators you can have your special collection of autumn images.

This image was created with Limewire AI and it reminds me of the region I come from, the South of Germany.  We have a lot of beech trees there on the Swabian Alb. 

You do not always see leaves as colorful as those on the image on the right are; as I mentioned in the beginning of this post this year the leaves stayed green for a long time and then turned yellow-brownish. 

However October is not over yet, maybe I will be able to see those colors in real nature and not only on an image! By the way, this image was created with picFinder AI.

Cute kitten Christmas ornament

 Are you a kitten lover and looking for cute kitten Christmas ornaments? Then this ornament may be the perfect thing for you! 

Cute Cat with Christmas Hat and red Christmas Ball
by ullahennig

Abstract Acrylic painting

It seems that Acrylic inks are one of my favorite mediums. I love the bold colors you can get with them, especially with the black lines between. 

I use empty yoghurt containers for mixing the colors in. I am eating a yoghurt almost every day, so I got stacks of these empty containers. 

I am still spending more time with creating images with AI Art Generators than with painting abstract pieces. However it is a nice change to sit down and apply paint on the surface!
 

Fuitbowl puzzle

 The days are getting shorter and colder. So why not spend your free time working on this puzzle? I don't think this puzzle is an easy one - there are a lot of details. In the end you will have a beautiful image of a fruitbowl with some juicy apples and grapes!

I've got other puzzles as well in my Zazzle shop. So come and have a look!

Colorful fruitbowl with apples and grapes
by ullahennig

Uncropping and cleaning up in Clipdrop

I love the quality of the images created with Bing Image Creator. However, the big disadvantage in my opinion is that you only get images in a square format. Now I want to decorate my home with my images, and that means that I have to put them into frames. Frames come in rectangular format like 15x10 cm. 

So I am very glad that Clipdrop offers the uncropping of images, which means that you upload your square images and Clipdrop converts it into a rectangular format, adding content.

This is the image created with Bing Image creator. I want to have it framed, that means printed it out in a rectangular format.

So I used the Uncop tool on Clipdrop.

I quite liked the result, but I was not so pleased with the yellow.white sphere on the left. 

So I clicked on "Edit" and chose the "cleaning up" tool. You now have a brush with which you can remove the parts you do not like.

Voilà, this is the "cleaned up" image!