Karen G-A

Revisiting an old prompt with new tools

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 1920 X 1920 (3.69 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Sketch in colored chalk and charcoal on hand made paper; a simple portrait of a young girl in striped overalls; the lively drawing style blends rounded shapes from figurative cubism, layered textural strokes as in impressionism, and details in the soft small dots of color of pointallism; the child has fly-away curly hair and freckles, and she is holding a small dog up under her chin; behind her is a blurred view of an abstracted bicyclist providing a sense of movement; the palette is soft saturated organic colors; compositional minimalism, textural effects
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square

Company on a long wait

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2224 X 1664 (3.70 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A montane forest at sunset, the last of the light turning the snow pink and lavender, deep shadows in blues, velvety green moss and conifers with deep brown trunks rise out of a rock strewn incline; at the base of one tree, on a mossy boulder a marmot with bright intelligent eyes is watching a black bear cub waiting for the return of his mom.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Cost of a changing climate

• Model: Grok

• Size: 1832 X 1032 (1.89 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A changing climate, seen from above, the stark progress of a forest fire moving across a landscape of rolling hills with a river in the background in the atmospheric etching style of Neil Rizos, hand painted fire colors
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

Magpies

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2592 X 1456 (3.77 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Two magpies, one in flight, over a background of a pocked redrock cliff side, detailed birds, foraging behavior for raising a clutch hidden in a crevice; brilliant desert light provides high contrast; a painting in oils on canvas in the lively style of Bruno Liljefors
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

She'll tease you, she'll unease you

• Model: DigitalDaVinci

• Size: 2288 X 1632 (3.73 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Zentangle grid portrait
  • Using base image: Yes

PTSD (Diversity Saturday)

• Model: Kling 3

• Size: 2240 X 1680 (3.76 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A very fine-line, highly detailed, high contrast, graphite and ink drawing; a stark illustration of: the brightest lies cast the darkest shadows.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Ablutions

• Model: SeeDream

• Size: 1920 X 1920 (3.69 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: An intimate sketch of a woman bathing; [a head and shoulder portrait seen from the back], her right hand holds a wet sponge on her left shoulder, dripping rivulets of water run down her skin; the background is shadowed abstract; textural detail and rim light produce a sensual atmosphere emphasizing the nape of the neck and the curve of the shoulder
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square

Two sopranos and a mezzo, one magic night

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2224 X 1664 (3.70 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: In charcoal and oil pastels, a playful, stylized illustration of three cats crooning at midnight, one is a short hair black and white Tuxedo, another is a longer haired Tortoise shell, and the third is a blue-eyed Siamese; they sit together, heads up and mouths open in song on a crumbling moss covered stone wall, tendrils of ivy seem to wave in their notes; a full moon and stars form a celestial backdrop for their serenade; a deeply saturated palette
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Revisting prompts with the new ChatGPT 2

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2224 X 1664 (3.70 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A waterfall at dusk, by Ciallebotte, Hilma af Klint, Yoshitoshi Mori
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Trying the new ChatGPT 2

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2224 X 1664 (3.70 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A botanically detailed formal garden surrounds a tiny house, the exuberant garden has become somewhat overgrown and is lush with full blooms and insects, the ageing gardener stands with his shovel, quietly happy and satisfied, because a house is for comfort but a garden is for living; beautifully detailed, high contrast, strong side light, rich with deeply saturated color
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

The brightest lies cast the darkest shadows

• Model: DaVinci2 (Mode 20)

• Size: 1184 X 880 (1.04 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: In layered oil pastels and charcoal illustrate the treachery and betrayal of the brightest lies cast the darkest shadows; blend the styles of Jamie Heiden, Palmer Hayden, Andre Kohn, and Pedro Friedeberg
  • Using base image: Yes

Modern incongruities

• Model: (Mode 30)

• Size: 1024 X 1024 (1.05 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Sketch portrait in oil pastels, a tall monk in his long cassock leans his shoulder on the whitewashed stone of an outer walkway in an Orthodox monastery courtyard, his dark hair curls over his ears and he has a long beard; his eyes are intensely focused on the incongruous modern smart phone in his hands; sketched with lively variation of line weight and energy, a simple palette that contrasts his simple black garment with the whitewashed walls and shadows behind him; in the portraiture styles of Louise Breslau, Henry Fuseli, and Egon Schiele.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square

Moonrise over falling water

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1152 X 864 (1.00 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A waterfall at dusk, by Ciallebotte, Hilma af Klint, Yoshitoshi Mori
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Sheltering from a sudden sun shower

• Model: Z-Image Turbo

• Size: 1280 X 960 (1.23 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Create a an image using DALL·E 3-optimized; They hovered together sharing their book in the greenhouse, a sudden sun shower sends water in unnoticed rivers down the outside of the glass, the sunlight casts weak watery shadows onto their young and wonder-filled faces, light refraction through water on glass, an abstract featuring two good friends rendered in alcohol ink, flowing colors limned by delicate thin gold ink etching, adds intricate detailing and heightens the sense of wonder. In the background is an abstracted dense jumble of plants in all shades of green, the humid atmosphere is heightened by the interplay of soft line and layered color, evoking the comfort of shelter from the rain and the delight in sharing a good book, the two friends are completely present and time flows through them
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Room to work!

• Model: Kling 3

• Size: 2592 X 1456 (3.77 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: An artist unlocked, in a room with strong side light that creates angles of light and dark over a table set for a still life on the left, on the right she stands in profile before a large colorful canvas, holding her palette and brush
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

Life lived fully in the present

• Model: (Mode 20)

• Size: 1231 X 1002 (1.23 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: In oil on canvas; three children gathered at a pond, chasing frogs, looking for turtle eggs, and gathering reeds to take home for basket weaving; different skin tones, range of hair color, they have expressions of eager curiosity and enjoyment; a low angle, intimate impressionistic portrait in the style ofJessie Willcox Smith with the lively style of Gary Kelley; a detailed whimsical and lyrical landscape
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

A night on earth with coffee and cigarettes... homage to Jim Jarmusch

• Model: FluX 2 (Pro)

• Size: 2224 X 1664 (3.70 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Coffee and cigarettes with a dead man; an overhead view of a French cafe, 1970s style, a painting in black and white with ocher and carmine accents; by Danny Galieote, David Heath, and Jim Jarmusch, semi abstract surrealism
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

When your lifeline for sanity gets cut

• Model: Ideogram (Base)

• Size: 1152 X 864 (1.00 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: The anguish of frustration and fear when faced with no effective options to influence destructive chaos
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

This is no way to work

• Model: Kling 3

• Size: 2240 X 1680 (3.76 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: an artist locked in a narrow hallway with cluttered shelves of jumbled tools on one side and stacks of old canvases crowding the other side. her canvas is tiny and hard to see
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Origin story: for one view of how we got the best cup of coffee

• Model: Nano Banana 2 (Pro)

• Size: 1200 X 896 (1.08 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A lively, playful, finely rendered pen and ink medieval manuscript style illustration, 9th-century young Ethiopian goat herder, Kaldi, and his goats, are dancing together, at least one goat is on hind feet only, they are all wide awake at night, Kaldi dances with his face raised to the heavens, holding a branch from the coffee bean bushes full of red berries; in the distant background is the local monastery; single page, beautiful fine line detail, soft color palette, dynamic movement of the dancing.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape