Blogs about Art

What's the best way to write alt text for artworks? Read our best practices guide. Continue reading → The post Alt Text for Artwork, Alt Text as Artwork appeared first on Aesthetics for Birds.

My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean …

Peter was the first child born to Helen & Joseph; first grandchild to Thelma & Les in Melbourne, and to Chaya & Yehuda in Sydney; and first great grandchild to Sarah and Peter. He was …

Part of the Hastings Jack in the Green festival in 2023 - photograph by the author From The Guardian in 2011: May Day is a conflation of three traditions. An ancient Celtic and Germanic one …

*Since robots are over a hundred years old, that’s just part of the heritage, but it’s nevertheless rather a lot. The post Our (Swedish) robot heritage appeared first on Artmaker Blog.

Following my experiments with the ChatGPT-assisted AI Chair 1.0, I’ve been continuing experiments with a range of other LLMs. The below image is Chair 1.1, designed with the assistance of Mistral AI. Before embarking on …

New York I Love You. Heading back home after a wonderful time in NYC with the NY premiere of ENO with two sold-out screenings, and of course each version different to the last. The reaction …

As many of you know, my big project during the winter and spring a year ago was a group of twenty charcoal landscape drawings. They eventually formed the core of my book Snowy Fields, along …

Painting and poetry! Click to continue reading We stand.

“Post-It Note Drawing #89.” All images © Aron Wiesenfeld, shared with permission When a friend asked for a small drawing on a Post-It note to add to his growing collection of artworks on the iconic …

March 29 – May 5, 2024

Artists are complaining that Instagram is becoming a worse place to promote their art. They wonder if they are just doing it wrong. And Meta execs simply claim our posts aren’t interesting enough. But the …

This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.

202311″ x 7″ x 10″Bronze This self portrait was generated by using a 3D scanner to scan my face, illustrating how the technology imperfectly sees me. The result is full of artifacts. Pieces of skin …

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Alas a project I may never get to, the photo-porn of 7 Zephyrs and Estorica Press. Remember the mimeograph machine? 7 Zephyrs Press was a primitive smut publisher working just over the border in Juarez …

Dr Faustus Conjuring Mephistopheles (1928) by Eric Ravilious. • Materialising in July from a cloud of sulphurous smoke: The Devil Rides In – Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1967–1974. Cherry Red Records, home of …

Screenshot of @geoffsnack’s IG Clearly I need to get on instagram more frequently, because then it might not take Yoshi Hill to point me to Geoff Snack’s 5-day-old post about scoring this 4’33” chair from …

A reader asked: “How is your thought process different at the beginning of a plein-air painting compared to the end?”At the beginning of a painting, I think about the concept or feeling that I want …