Category: Art

  • All that, and You aren’t even Exposed

    All that, and You aren’t even Exposed

    I feel a little bad about doing this. So don’t take it as me calling out this specific company – I really want to hope and think they are well-intentioned but thoughtless of consequences.  UPDATE!  They responded to my tweet, took down their initial contest tweet on Twitter, but when I went back to check…

  • All the Pockets

    All the Pockets

    There was a conversation, and a side discussion cropped up, as they do, about my perennial joke that I am a hobbit. I’m short, and I have big feet for my stature.  I’m not kidding about the feet, the First Reader and I can share boots, as we wear the same size in shoes.  But…

  • Art Peregrinations

    Art Peregrinations

    A bit under the weather today, but MidJourney rolled out V4, so I’ve been playing with it. This is a whole other level of AI art and as much as I have been doing? This is only getting better. So much fun. Honestly I could play with it like a game for hours. The story…

  • Morning Mist: Oddly Prompted

    Morning Mist: Oddly Prompted

    I haven’t written for a week. This is… not good.  In an attempt to at least muddle through some of my routines and commitments and regain my momentum, I’ve gone ahead with a MidJourney image for the prompt last week.  “The morning mist kissed the flower petals.” And also, a ‘remastered’ version of the initial…

  • Drawing Prompts

    Drawing Prompts

    Every year in October, I take part in the global phenomenon where artists draw every day. Unlike the majority, for copyright issues, I no longer call this by the name the movement started out with, and out of an excess of caution, I also don’t use the prompts lest there be an IP issue with…

  • Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture

    Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture

    A month or more ago I had a wild hare. This is the result of chasing that bunny down the hole and falling through another world…  This is an art book with black and white interior so it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. The paper version is formatted for ease of page removal,…

  • Evoke

    Evoke

    From the Latin ex-: out of, and vocare: to call out evocare, to call out of, to call from… I’ve been watching the conversation about art these last several weeks with interest. This is hardly the first time the art world has been set on it’s ears. I suspect that the Egyptian art community’s response…

  • Travelling With an AI

    Travelling With an AI

    A guest post from Marion M. As a military brat, I’ve been the kid on some of those interminable road trips, and have hauled my own along on a few all-day treks as well. Travel games are a thing… and this is a very creative one! You can find part one of my unorthodox ways…

  • Teaching Art History with an AI

    Teaching Art History with an AI

    And other unorthodox uses of MidJourney. This started because my son, who is 17 now, and in his senior year of highschool (hybrid homeschooled and community college courses) was very interested in the MidJourney images I was generating. I’ve said from the beginning that this felt as much like a game, as it did making…

  • Picking up Spares and Running with Them

    Picking up Spares and Running with Them

    I am still very much playing with MidJourney, or as my friend Travis has dubbed it, Midj (I pronounce that like Midge) which you’ll know if you’re on Discord with me or watching my instagram. It’s a fantastic tool, and it’s taking time to learn how to get the best out of it, like any…

  • Publishing News

    Publishing News

    So! You may know there will be a hunting anthology released at the end of the month. How Not to Shoot Fish, and Other Deer That Got Away is finishing up with illustrations, and will then move into final edits and formatting prior to release. Nearly there!  I’m also working on another art project, and…

  • Bounce, bounce, bounce

    Bounce, bounce, bounce

    Wheeee….  *doppler effect*  Excited artist running through, waving tablet, paintbrush thrust through her twisted-up knot of hair.  I have a new toy! If you want to see more of my work, check it out at MidJourney. All of these were generated using a text prompt through the AI. I haven’t done anything to them in…