• AI Art in the Style of Andrew Wyeth

    AI Art in the Style of Andrew Wyeth

    I’ve been using Midjourney lately instead of the Wombo app. I think it’s better, easier to control, with more usable images for things like mockups and blog post images. Recently I experimented with making some AI art in the style of Andrew Wyeth. If you want to try some other artist styles I recommend this…

  • Andy Warhol’s Diary: September 11, 2001

    Andy Warhol’s Diary: September 11, 2001

    Sept. 11, 2001.  Woke up around 11 to sirens. Put the TV on. There was no more Twin Towers. All you could see was smoke, and the planes that crashed into them. The news kept showing the towers collapsing, over and over. Unbelievable. Like one of my Disaster paintings. The phone was ringing. People were…

  • Latest in Surface Pattern Design

    Latest in Surface Pattern Design

    This week I’ve been wondering why my “Playful Pattern,” a repeating pattern of Matisse inspired shapes is OVERWHELMINGLY my most popular surface pattern design on Pinterest. Is it because it was pinned a bunch of times on other boards, and therefore acquired some momentum? Or is it really what people like? It has THOUSANDS more…

  • Create Mockups with AI

    Create Mockups with AI

    As I said in my last post, the idea that you can create all kinds of mockups in AI really blows my mind. Perhaps I’m a little slow to this. When I google the phrase, “create mockups with AI” there are already tons of results, including AI mockup generator apps and video tutorials. After buying…

  • Using AI for Fashion Design

    Using AI for Fashion Design

    Have you considered using AI for fashion design? There are many different ways to approach it, and likely multiple AI apps that specifically cater to this. For my purposes, I wanted to create some simple AI images of models wearing dresses, and use them to visualize how my surface pattern designs would look as fabric.…

  • The Complete New Yorker DVD Set

    The Complete New Yorker DVD Set

    I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and a consistent thing in my childhood, was that there was always a New Yorker magazine lying around. As a kid I would pick them up and read them out of boredom. I was initially interested in the cartoons, and sometimes the ads, which were minimal. I…