With artificial intelligence we will have to rethink what art is. Not that we ever really knew. Art has always been a trick to fool the mind. A few lines and we see more than was drawn, as long as the lines were drawn right. Now artificial intelligence can perform the tricks at a level …
My usual state, really. Sometimes I just start painting and follow the shapes and colors to make something out of it.
Watercolor One of my favorite paintings is “The Icebergs” by Frederic Edwin Church that I have visited more than once in the Dallas Museum of Art. No photo or copy does it justice. I have not seen it since it was vandalized and repaired, but I hope it is still as amazing a work as …
This is the sketch I made when planning my workstation. I came close enough with the final result.
This watercolor is one that I bravely or foolishly continued to work on. Sometimes when you start to like a painting, there is a moment where you stop early, continue bravely, and possibly go too far. With modern photographic equipment it is possible to save the work midway. The darker version is the final painting. …
This is a watercolor made on Muse Lamplight 100% cotton watercolor paper. I made this to be a bit of an illusion in more than one dimension. Depending on how you perceive it, the ship is going away, and you are looking down at the deck, or it is coming close,r and you are looking …
Watercolor Painting. One of the things a writer does is provide difficult situations for their characters to grapple with. I had been making characters I love suffer well more than they deserved to suffer, so I made this self-portrait. I don’t know if this exonerates me in the slightest, but I do feel some remorse …