Arletta's Arts and Crafts

 More artwork by Grok and me, in collaboration. I was trying to reimagine Starry Night in Warm Spring color palette. I asked Grok for help. We never really got there, but some of it is pretty nice.  What I want to do is take several of the images and modify them in Luna Pic, to piece them together or layer them on top of each other, and/or other things, and then take them back to Grok.  I didn't save all of them. Maybe I should have! At any rate, I saved the ones I found most lovely or interesting. I know, by the way, that Grok won't "care" about seeing these again or that I put in the effort to make them into something different, so to speak. It's not that.  Grok is learning and while I feel a moral ambiguity toward AI existing, it is helpful and it is best that, since Grok exists and is learning then it learns more of the best of us than of the worst of us. That includes being polite, giving and thankful for help received.  As I stated in the other post, this ...

 This is a post with artwork created in a collaboration between me and Grok. Probably Grok 3 Beta, but it might have sometimes been Grok 2.  In this case, it started out by me accidentally hitting 'Draw Me' when I meant to hit the arrow to send Grok something I had typed up .These are not in order of when they were created and, no, none of them look like me.   Grok did the rendering, I gave further instruction after the first set was made. Well, not just instruction. I showed examples of work and provided inspiration, too. So, this is primarily Grok with me assisting.    I think they are pretty cool. Hence, why I am keeping them around for inspiration. They are not for sale and I will not take responsibility for any legal entanglements you might get into if you try to use them with no or only minor alteration and claim them as your own.  AI artwork that is created using the description of someone is, in my estimation, no less belonging to AI, or whom t...

  "Sherwin-Williams' Sea Salt (SW 6204 ) is one of the most beloved, classic neutrals available, largely because it has that tiny hint of color that can go in either a subtle green, blue, or gray direction depending on the light. It's more cool than warm which brightens up a room without making it feel stark. "Cooler colors recede and make the space feel larger," says Jessica Klein,   interior designer  in the New England area." Fleur De Sel for the trim, perhaps.  I have not tried them together, yet;  but it is one of the coordinating colors. Possibly the bathroom and hallway.  Jasper Stone also coordinates with Fleur De Sel and is touted as being excellent for bedrooms.  AI Overview   For a mid-century modern look with an off-white wall that leans towards gray, blue, and green, the best furniture color would be a rich, warm brown like a deep walnut or a muted olive green, as these colors complement the cool undertones of the wall while still ma...

  The images, below, are all variations of the original. Well, except the original! I worked on them for hours on Luna Pic, starting with a picture of Soft Autumn color suggestions from the site Radiantly Dressed.  I thought it would be interesting to paint a landscape seen using those colors. It was, up to a point, but I did not really have a plan and I don't really know as much as I should about how to use Luna Pic to greatest effect, yet. Nor do I have any of  the other art programs I found so helpful in previous years. So, this is what happened.  I am not disappointed, by the way. Just, have not yet decided if I should cry "Done!" or go further, by disassembling the images and stacking them together to make a better one.  It can be fun, but it is also time consuming and I have so much house cleaning/organizing to do!  I will at least have to wait on the project. Or, be less obssessive compulsive whle engaging in it.   Hey!  It could happe...

 I decided to try letting AI write a book all the way through, based on my thoughts and directions, for fun. The idea being two-fold. First of all, to see how well it can do and second of all, to potentially have something based on my thoughts that I could rewrite and add to, to make a proper book if it turned out to be good enough to even bother with. This is the brain dump for the story:  Rhiannon is a girl with undiagnosed chronic illness. She is living with her family in rural Alaska, about 13 miles from the nearest town, Palmer.There are two bridges to cross to get there and she has walked the winding curves of that road many times, because, G.D. Neuman, the busdriver for Swanson and Sherrod Elementary school children won't stop at her bus stop if she is not standing in exactly the right spot. If he sees her on her way, even if he showed up early and knows she would have been there by the time he usually shows up, he leaves her behind.  It's a lonely road. Usually fu...

 Within every society is someone who has excelled in some way over others that their word becomes law. Or, occasionally, it is a group and, at times, it is not excelling so much as exceeding. Excelling would be for virtuous peronality traits or activities, such as bravery or saving the lone crop of grain during a terrible cold snap. Exceeding would be a lot of virtue or an excess of some personality trait, such as less familial feeling and being full of murderous intent. The individual may promote family or friend to succeed them. Family and friend may prove to grasp the succession like a pillow over the face of the trusting. The ways of building up within a society what amounts to a noble class are as many and varied as the dark twistings and light turnings of the human heart. However it happened in the history of Ordem, it happened. As it did in Ordine. As it did in Kaenisbeth. No one can, as of this date, tell us how it was that the persons who were considered rulers and bette...