Dipped my toe in the world of AI over the weekend and since I like cats and Warhammer:


The Meowperor Protects!
https://i.imgur.com/pEoUe7M.png

Since I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time atm, this one was one of the first things I wanted to try and do with AI generation. Turns out that AI really doesn't work well with multiple subjects, so I ditched the idea. Today, I sat down and decided to take another shot at it and roughly five hours and a whole lot of Photoshop later, I finally managed to make it work.


Nazgûl and the Hobbit, in the style of Hildebrandt brothers' Tolkien paintings.
https://i.imgur.com/TCXkg5u.png

Nice one :up:

My God - look what turned up on Ebay now
 

https://i.imgur.com/WdlUs2w.jpeg

I don't know who's selling this but no wonder they want to get rid of it

Just found some more of my stuff online
 

https://i.imgur.com/D3FMWkA.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/fR8jPWa.jpeg

This one got published on a greetings card - nice to see it turn up at auction

Its like kids who left the house long ago one day return for a visit, eh? :03:

^
Yes :) - I often used to wonder about who bought my work and where it might be hanging; I only occasionally met with a buyer or collector, most sales being conducted through a third party (art dealer)

"The First Day of the Last Year"
 

https://i.imgur.com/2RdDxTw.jpeg

My painting depicting Flying Officer Tomasz Szlenkier's glorious day during Operation Bodenplatte, 1st January 1945

Bernard Page - aka David Beatty
 

Today I came across the first mention I've ever encountered - outside of my own knowledge - of the artist Bernard Page's nom de plume "David Beatty". Bernard Page was a good friend to me and helped me with contacts and advice when I first took up painting full time

It was known that he reserved his best work for certain dealers and I found online today some of his marine paintings produced under both names. I am assuming that he signed the potboilers "Bernard Page" - although these look as good to me as anything he ever painted

Dear Bernard passed away many years ago - younger than I am now - and asked his & my dealer at the time to fetch his brushes to his hospital bed. He asked him to fetch me too, but by then I was living 150 miles away in the middle of nowhere and recently become car-less. I do often wish I'd been able to see him but perhaps it would've been too awful - best to remember him as he was, looking like everyone's idea of an English teacher - always in tweed jacket & corduroy pants. He liked to burn the candle at both ends, so it was said, and he always did smell pleasantly of cigars and scotch

R.I.P. old shipmate

https://i.imgur.com/AtTSbK7.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/bFSpzxh.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/ZmY5xYG.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/RA346vh.jpeg

These are not the kind of paintings I would hang up on my walls, but I definitely appreciate the clear conception of lines (dont know how to put it better), and the performing execution,which looks sober, clean and in a certain way - again in absence of better words - "photorealistic".

Clean, straight, honest, focussed painting, without foolish gimmicks. Was he a Vulcan? :).

:haha: He couldn't have been less like a Vulcan - he used to trade paintings for booze at a famous hotel and he did sway a little when he was talking to you


https://i.imgur.com/VVskhM3.jpeg

Here's one of mine - nowhere near his standard. They're not to my taste either to be truthful, but as with any profession you take the work when and where

As usual, fantastic Paintings, Eichhörnchen. Think as you like but your paintings are first rate. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up: Years ago, I drew pictures fairly well but never to the quality of your paintings. I was relegated to drawing album covers in Middle and High School for Art Classes. :haha:


Condolences on the loss of your friend, Eichhörnchen.


Rest in peace, Bernard Page.

Thanks, buddy - it's a truism that you can't paint unless first you can draw, but that wouldn't apply to abstract art of course. Drawing is the hardest part

Re Bernard - thank you; I do wish I'd not had to move away and see him no more