Artistic Styles in Craiyon / DALL-E mini

An old man holding a dachshund

George Washington

Gandalf

Big Bird

All of the images above were created by an AI known as Craiyon or DALL-E mini.  This is a simplified version of DALL-E, a neural net that converts text into images.

I am impressed with how the program manages to imitate various art styles, so I am going to show a series of generated images that use the same prompts as above, but also add an artist or artistic style.  Some of the images are quite impressive, while others are odd or silly.  Click on any of the images below to view a larger version.

I picked the subjects because "An old man holding a dachshund" is fairly specific, but open to a lot of artistic interpretation.  "George Washington" is a historical figure with a well-known image, so much less open to interpretation.  "Gandalf" is a fictional character, but the image from the movies played by Ian McKellen is, by far, the most widely known.  Finally, "Big Bird" just looked really awesome when painted by Caravaggio.

Building Westmarch, my Home NAS

 

A couple of months ago my main desk top computer, which I built two years ago at the begining of the COVID pandemic quit working.  Diagnosing the problem took me down a real rabbit-hole of possible parts problems and I ended up with some extra working parts at the end of that journey.  (The problem turned out to be a bad HDD.)  As a result I decided to see if I could cobble together a working home NAS.

Venetian Landscape Paintings

I spent a few hours yesterday (April 4, 2015) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.  Most of that time was spent looking at early Italian painting and paintings by the Dutch masters in the west wing of the main floor.

The Fortress of Königstein

I fell in love with several landscape/architecture paintings by Venetian masters.  Mostly from this gallery. 

Art of the Ming Dynasty

A 12-photo slide show of an exhibit currently showing in St. Louis. Also a link to an article on the exhibit. This is some pretty cool stuff!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802055331341637.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB123801614813541293%26articleTabs%3Dslideshow

Some Interesting Inaugural Artwork

I noticed these today on Yahoo. Some interesting media that artists used to celebrate the inauguration of President Obama.

"A pizza in the form of U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, by chef Gaetano Esposito, is displayed in Naples January 22, 2009. The pizza is made with cream of eggplant, tomatoes, ricotta cheese, cream of artichoke, buffalo mozzarella and extra virgin olive oil."

"This undated image provided by UKFineArts on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, shows a micro sculpture by Willard Wigan showing U.S. President elect Barack Obama and his family in the eye of a needle. Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th U.S. president in Washington on Tuesday."

"This image provided by Legoland California shows a Lego replica of President-elect Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, on display at Legoland California on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 in Carlsbad, Calif."