I am a traditonal artist and I love AI Art!

For quite some time I have been creating traditional art (mostly art done with alcoholbased markers) and AI Art. There have been days when I focussed on AI Art, and days when I focussed on traditional art. Yes, traditional art takes longer, I usually need one week for preparing the image, selecting the colors, colorblocking and then shading with inktense pencils and adding the background with acrylic ink. 

The image on the left however is the result of directly combining a traditionally painted piece with using AI to edit it. 

First of all I was not so happy with the result. It was okay, but does not belong to the pieces I am particularly proud of. So I was curious whether AI would come up with something more interesting when I asked it to turn the style of the piece into Art Deco style. And here it is!

 

The Beauty of Winter

No, winter in general is not my favorite season. I especially hate November with its short and often dreary days. December is better, with all the lights of the Christmas season. 

However there is beauty in winter - like in the image on the left. The crispiness of the frozen leaves in contrast to the red of the berries - looking at such an image makes me happy. With all those AI generators on the web I can easily create my happy version of winter!

Alcohol markers and acrylic ink

One of the advantages of Acrylic ink is that you can generate shades of the hue by simply adding water. The acrylic ink here was a burgundy refill for Molotow acrylic markers; By using the ink as it comes out of the bottle you get a quite dark brownish red. The more water you add the more pinkish the color gets. 

Alcohol markers on the other hand are flat; you can get some kind of shading by going over the same spot twice with the same marker, or, as I did in the last painting, by using inktense pencils on top of markers.

With this painting however I wanted to create a strong contrast between the acrylic ink background and the shapes painted with markers in the middle of the image. 
 

Explosion of colors

Oil pastels are a medium I do not use very often. I've got a set of them, but they are nicely stacked away. However, in the past, I have played with them. One of the results is the design on this round magnet. I love the vibrant colors and the movement which is expressed in the design. 

I did it a long time ago in 2012. The only digital step I took was to scan the painting and remove the background. No AI at that time whatsoever!

 

Explosion of Colours Magnet
by ullahennig

Mixed media Painting

This abstract painting - the 1st one of the month of November, is a true mixed media piece. Up to now I have been colorblocking with alcoholmarkers, doing the shading with my inktense pencils. With this one I added a third medium: black acrylic ink for the background.

Why acrylic ink? Well, I wanted to create quite some contrast between the shapes in the middle and the background. And acrylic ink is really, really black. In addition to that it saves marker ink. I only needed a few drops of acrylic ink to cover the background.
 

Last October Marker Painting

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This is my latest marker painting, and it will be the last October painting. In October I managed to create four Marker paintings, and I am quite satisfied with the fact that I managed to keep up with doing traditional art in addition to creating digital AI art. I also managed to do color swatches with the new markers I bought. So I can easily select one of my selfmade color palettes and look for the markers which will go with this palette. As I wrote in one of my earlier posts, you can easily create your own color palette by uploading an image to coolors.com. 

Using a one word prompt

 

It's amazing what AI Generators come up with when you insert just one word as a prompt.

I used Microsoft Copilot and only the word "trick-or-treat". The result was the image on the left. It even had the words spelt correctly - which is something AI Generators had a problem with for quite some time. 

I must admit that I like being surprised - as much as I like getting AI doing exactly what I want them to do...