Checkers and hearts, scrappy quilt, quilted with big stitches and button thread

Checkers and hearts, scrappy quilt, quilted with big stitches and button thread. No new materials for this quilt, all scraps including the red button thread which I had three spools of and dont even remember where they came from. (I did buy new batting, since pieced batting really doesnt work that well, as i have discovered)

Just a couple more blocks to quilt, in big red stitches (i chose this over machine quilting on my 80 year old singer or paying 150 dollars to learn and rent a machine.  There is nothing added by making museum quality stuff when my big dog (90 lb weimaraner) is going to pick it as his favorite space (LOL)

 

Art ? , or AI playground ?

AI art, or playground for (mindless) easy replication and distortion.

I got the idea that maybe all the “AI, ready made, matlab assisted, pattern making programs, pattern recognition software is not that good for the human brain. Just occurred to me that using the “easy” button to be artistic (as a writer, poet, musician, artist) maybe be in fact “very easy” but might not increase our ability to enjoy detail, creativity, enjoyment, peace, and all things that typically make the artistic masters beloved.

Attached is a set of images that to me were just “chaotic scramblings” of some very old impressionist piece of art, (I could not easily find the original but sort of remember it, but later did find it as very likely AI on a painting by Matisse).

The original is great, but is this artwork below?, quickly created with AI = image filtering functions and distortions? It shows NO creativity whatever; it is  “fake-art”. What does this easy button for artwork do to the human brain and its ability to create, record, beautify the world, grow as a craftsman, leave a legacy?

I am not impressed. (I bestowe all do respect to the person who created this fake art that required no brains at all, and also the artist that created the original required skill and patience). I have no intent to publicize or monetize this current persons 40 second-use of some canned image filters over an existing work of art.

The he/she/other who created it certainly had fun, but made little or no impact on the general human creative spirit, and did leave impact on total number of online images (not really adding to progress or creativity), and little impact on their own creativity.

The impact on me, big, and in terms reposting junk (ok, i reposted this junk, but with philosophical comments, LOL)

Blue marble and flowers, decorated flat egg, refrigerator magnet

Blue marble and flowers, decorated flat egg, refrigerator magnet. This refrigerator easter egg magnet was made not made with half a chicken egg as the mold, rather, a rounded solid piece of white polymer clay, and a thin sheet of marble blended clay over top, and trimmed with a knive around the base.  The arc of the center of the egg shape is much lower, and this is an easy alternative to making the egg shaped magnet with half a chicken egg as the mold.

The flowers leaves and stem were added after the whole egg base was complete, but I believe the marble sheet and flowers can be added at the same time.

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Striped base, small flower decorated easter egg refrigerator magnet

Using a strip idea, the background for these two “half” egg refrigerator magnets was made with polymer clay over top an emptied chicken egg (a pretty small egg). Before curing I created a cut line on the long equator of the egg (smaller top to bottom) so that after curing it would be easy to separate the two halves.
After curing I used a razor blade to cut through the actual chicken egg, and then had two domed halves. I put a flat bottom on each half (using liquid polymer clay and about a 1/8 or thicker flat piece and cut around the half egg smoothing and pressing the half egg into the base. Then decorated the top and cured again. Eggs can be purchased at memory-beads website.
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