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Paisley Dress Watercolor

Michele B. Naquaiya

When I started with this image, I had a completely different thing in mind. I wanted to combine 2 or more images together to create something I would be surprised and awed by. When you start to fine tune your ideas in AI, it can easily go many wild ways. That doesn’t mean it’s bad…just different. That’s why this is fun. Here are three images that I put together in a surprising way.
Here’s the first watercolor that I painted from a live model at Clark College in Washington at their evening life drawing sessions–back in 2007. The 1st is the original and the 2nd is one that I just played with some color filtering.

original painting

I added these color tones in photo edit

Here is a watercolor illustration/doodle on watercolor paper I was hoping I could somehow blend into the art, done in watercolor markers.

I asked AI to combine several combinations of the idea of this woman and the illustrated watercolor sketch. Here are the goofy things that happened.
1 They told me I could not have a nude
2 I said, ok but can you come up with the same or similar pose of the woman?
3 They said sure thing, so I chose the girl in the garden among a bunch of images offered.
4 Next I asked if they could put the illustration design on her dress. So I made up a name and called it the “paisley design”.
5 After around half a dozen color changes and getting the pattern to fit her body, I accepted the top design with a few tweeks. I ended up getting the Paisley Dress Watercolor, final product.

This just goes to show you can’t always get what you want….but if you try sometime…
you get what you need👌😂

As always, fun unhurtful comments are accepted. Tell me if you’ve had any similar experiences.

AI Art, scratchboard drawing

Chocolate Pie…Your Choice

Michele B. Naquaiya

In this post I am offering up a choice for you. It’s not to eat. I can’t do that but I can
offer several AI versions of chocolate pie with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

Version A The light source is on the left side, casting nice heavy shadows. The plate has a striped flange which looks carved out, with the glaze pooling around the interior. There is a strong colorful shadow on the table and the highlight on the plate has a warm glow. Also lower right shows the reflection of the crust.
Version B – the light is on the right side, see the shadows. also AI has interpreted the pink shadows as a pink plate. and made the table blue. The cherry leans to the light and has a bulbous tip. The top of the pie is shiny like a glaze and notice the texture of the chocolate interior.
Version C This version of the pie piece is deeper and the whipped cream does not look very real because of the many soft layers. Notice the ridges in the pie crust giving it the appearance of graham cracker crust rather than pie dough. The pattern in the plate is also different. Also, there are small whisps of pink in the table top. which are symbolic reflections of the pinky plate in abstraction.
This is the Original scratchboard. Look closely and see how black was scratched away to reveal white kaolin clay underneath. The scratched areas were painted with colored inks and a tiny brush. The light source is coming from directly above. See how the shadows are cast. This piece was only 5″ tall.

Which one do you like? If you ask me, I like all of them because they each have their own personality. Isn’t that a big factor in art? The point of this exercise is to learn to look closely at things, whether it’s a Classic Yellow Mustang or a simple piece of pie.

AI Art, fantasy illustration

Sunfaces & Peacock Feathers

Michele B. Naquaiya

Here I go again. I love mixing images and blending them together. I have an idea in my head and I’m trying different combinations. Hand drawn series (Sunflower Faces) and add that to a (delicate peacock feather)…, or visa versa. Three choices and even though the sunfaces are exactly the same drawing, they are uniquely different…different moods, and cool textures.

What’s better than shopping in a candy store where the proprietor says, take anything you like.😍

AI Art

Variations of a country cottage

Michele B. Naquaiya

I’m using Leonardo AI experimenting with crossing two separate images created independently and then mixing them up in the word prompt. I love the results of playing like this. The last picture is my original watercolor which is the source of the design. This is fun and it’s important to keep things super simple. This is not like MidJourney. This is simple illustration. It’s kind of like mixing apples and oranges and getting a weird smoothie.

This is my original watercolor in black and white: