painting – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

ChatGPT DALL-E Art Styles

2024-05-07

While ChatGPT's image generation is restricted, it can follow art styles. Sometimes pretty impressively.
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Image Generation with Gab AI

2024-03-14

Gab AI's Image generation feature is hit or miss, beautiful or an abomination, with few if anything in between.

Due to the image content, the examples are not necessarily suitable for work (some nude artwork).
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Modern Art

2021-11-20

Beautiful comment on Modern Art in a Fantasy RPG.
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Worth a Look: Pornhub’s Classic Nudes

2021-08-03

A porn site doing a guide to ... select museum artworks ... hmmm.
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Painting: It does’t have to start perfect

2020-08-14

Some things you can develop for yourself, but when it comes to painting ... it pays to watch a master. It's hard to think about drawing this way.
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Loving to Solve Problems — like a Cat seeing a Ball of Wool

2020-05-16

One of the perks of a university job — solving problems.
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Watching a Master paint

2019-03-04

Ah, Internet. It allows you access to the world of creeps without having to smell them (to quote someone I have just forgotten), but it also allows you to watch masters at work. Here's a video of a great artist just ... warming up.
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Recommendation: «Blood Stain» by Linda Sejic

2018-03-10

Just a short shout-out to a beautiful comic by Linda Sejic.
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Question: Why is Modern Art so Bad?

2016-01-26

Interesting video addressing: "Why is modern art so bad?"
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Looking back at the postings of 2015

2015-12-26

Postings of 2015 ... somewhat sorted for a quick overview/recap.
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This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.