Feature Lesson

The River Bend

"The River Bend" 10x14" Oil on Board by Richard Robinson Resource photo of Rangiteiki River in New Zealand. Is it ok to use Ai to generate images to paint from? Ai image generators like Midjourney.com are a great tool for artists. You can use this tool as little or as much as you like. In this lesson I take a photograph, design a painting in greyscale based on that, and then give both images to the Ai to flesh out my design. Alternatively I could have skipped Ai and painted a colour study, then worked up the larger finished painting from that. I would have gained some experience but lost some time...