After an extended hiatus from painting while I went to the USA for a while I am finally back to working again. I'm hoping to have it ready for my upcoming slot on Every Day Original on 28 June... might be a bit tight. If it is I have an older painting I can use instead.
Well everybody is talking about the Midjourney AI program/app as people are getting some stunning results with it. I don't intend to compete with those guys (although I would love to reach their standard) and have resolved to use it as a composition generator to produce images that can trigger a painting idea or come up with something that I can adapt.
This is the first one off the production line as it were. I messed around with Midjourney for a while and came up with the image below. Over my breakfast coffee I realised that the misty cloud at the bottom could easily be transformed into the sea. From there I envisaged rocks and stormy waves and then realised I could introduce a Hokusai homage with the wave at bottom right. As you can see I kept some elements of the original and changed others.
This is the tonal underpainting stage using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and applied with a rag and brush.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
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