Battle for Babel AI series

 Leonardo.Ai did a rather good job of creating these epic images of the Tower of Babel in flames. As you may know, I've depicted the tower in many pieces, but these came out very cinematically, and, as I mentioned, epic.

Battle for Babel AI #1

Battle for Babel AI #2

Battle for Babel AI #3

Battle for Babel AI #4

Airship Battle (AI generated)

 This is a case where the text prompt turned up quite amazing images with little to no editing required...below are 2 versions of the image.

Airship Battle (AI)

Airship Battle 2 (AI)

End of Empire (AI generated image)

 Here is another AI experiment from Leonardo.Ai. I find that it takes many edits to get a good image, so while this is in many ways quick & automatic, there are a lot of wasted images. I also find that the AI responds quite well to poetic or "nonsense" prompts...

End of Empire, AI-generated image

The Portable Apocalypse

This small acrylic painting for the Apocalyptic series was at least partly inspired by seeing some works of the German expressionist Ludwig Meidner years ago...his panoramic scenes of apocalyptic destruction were somewhat undercut by the small physical scale of the paintings...

The Portable Apocalypse, 2012, acrylic on board, 8" x 10".

Future Ruins

Small post-apocalyptic drawing on cardboard:


Future Ruins, 2010, ink & acrylic on cardboard, 5" x 9" approx.

Watching Over the City

Another new brush & ink drawing for my upcoming small local exhibit:


Watching Over the City, 2009, brush & ink on card, 10" x 8".

Partly inspired by the drawing I did for today's Ayton Artwork a Day blog, another colossal figure (or head, in this case.)

The Architect

New painting:


The Architect, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16".

A very simple, pretty minimal painting. It might be a study for something, or it might just be this. It's nice to strip things down to the basics once in a while.

Stranded

A new painting -- I'm starting to work on a slightly larger scale again...


Stranded, 2009, acrylic on board, 20" x 16".

Ruins with Dome

Ruins with Dome, 2009, acrylic on board, 14" x 11".

A new painting I did a short while ago. Concurrently with doing the large, detailed Entropy drawings, I've been working on a series of smaller color paintings, which mirror the drawings in some ways, but in other ways act as a kind of pressure valve to stop me getting too intense...though maybe that should not be a problem...we'll see how things develop. It's been a quite productive year so far, and I feel like I'm only just getting started.