October 13, 2020

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine.  The model was from the Washington DC area (on the Virginia side):

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Deep Dream Generator

Portrait Painter of the Year 2020

I have to commend the British for cheating so much during the televised Portrait Painter of the Year 2020 series, especially Episode 4.  A good number of the artists painted from their iPads and iPhones while in front of the sitter.

Cheating with an iPad

while painting the sitter

I got wound up and wondered if I could paint an interesting portrait on TV in four hours.  So I took a screen capture of one of the models and tried:

I drew from this captured image

I produced a drawing in less than an hour, and cheated my own way by coloring it using Deep Dream Generator.

Deep Dream Generator

My drawing altered by AI, 

using Deep Dream Generator

I doubt that the British would accept anything as unconventional as my drawing portrait.

Would I stand a chance

with this portrait?

San Carlos 1989

My painting friend from grad school, Fausto Igor Galvez Buenfil, sent me this photo below via Instagram.  It is in front of my painting in the studio of Maestro Luis Perez Flores, at the Academia de San Carlos in the center of Mexico City.  I painted that canvas from life on the roof of that art school (though the figure came from a reference book of models).

Igor, me, and Joanna

in front of my painting

at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City

1989

I also studied in the studio of Maestro Antonio Salazar Bañuelos at San Carlos.

• Interesting animations by Andreas Wannerstedt.
• A new version of StyleGan2-Ada came out, with an online Colab demo.