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Literally all my Christmas presents this year are hand-made junk journals. I worked flat out for a month and a half.
Some good covers.
Mastered kettle stitch.
Some good pages.
Found some really awesome graphics in old books.
Late Night Study #1
Original pen drawings scanned in, image completed in Inkscape. Nebula photo thanks to Daniel Cid on Pexels.com.
Stuck the skull still life on Etsy. Maybe people want to make cards or similar.
Old telephone, yeah!
Bookmarks from paper scraps. Some people are gonna be getting lil presents...
This is the whole spread. Lil autumn collage there.
Still life with primate skull.
Skull, book and clock illustrations on Etsy
Celestial dreams #2
Cat, book and telescope illustrations on Etsy
Thanks to Robert Gruszecki for the nebula picture on Pexels.com
Long before the recent AI explosion, engineers were not only developing the technologies, but also actively looking for the weaknesses. To be clear, the visual AI work we've been witnessing recently is generative - more or less convincing/compelling images. But the AI that drives your car or diagnoses your illness, these are decision makers. It's a different application of the same class of technologies - modern artificial neural nets. And this is what I want to highlight here. The above demonstration shows how easy it is to confuse these types of system about what they are looking at. The point is, some object we leave by the road could have a very unpredictable effect on the self-driving car. It wouldn't even occur to us that that would be a problem. I got the picture from this article, where the author goes into more detail.
I remember one talk I was in where the speaker had rigged their AI to highlight the parts of the image that it based its decision on in identifying fish. Turns out, the AI had just learned, if there's seaweed in the background, it's a fish. You see the problem.
I do actually believe in AI. But what we have now is somewhat fragile, and has no concept of our values, and we should bear this is mind in deciding how we use it.
Made a cover for this junk/art journal. It's bound with an elastic band for now, but I like it that way so it may remain so. I decided on a sombre cover, the better to frame the chaos I intend to fill it with! It's black acrylic paint dry-brushed with two blue shades and some gold. I tinted the bookshelf background blue to match. I'm still going to grunge these pages up some more - faded edges, maybe a few coffee stains etc. :D Eventually I'll even draw in it...
Ars longa, vita brevis - art takes time, life is short
Is there a name for collaging together your own drawings digitally? Or generally, digital/physical hybrid/fusion? I don't know what hash tags I'm meant to be using. Even if I make a physical collage from my own drawings, I feel like that's not what people normally mean by collage.
I will pin the post, as a way of saying, hi, that's me! Gardener by day, artist by night, keepin' it real.
She/her, 47, queer, autistic, north west England.
I don't use AI, btw, ever.
And that was the last page of the art journal!
True story:
Cats printable on Etsy
Books printable on Etsy
Digital collage, not something I've done much of before...
Skulls printable on Etsy
Apothecary printable on Etsy
Books printable on Etsy
Cos you know, what the world needs right now is a David Grusch colouring in sheet ...
David Grusch colouring in printable on Etsy
I put the mothman drawing on Etsy :)
