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Tarot card design with the help of AI

Played around with AI & Midjourney and set out to design some tarot cards. The results are nothing short of amazing. That is if you are into the famous Visconti cards. Words used to generate the images: roman chariot passing, 2 personages, mist, tarot cards.

Too archetypical?

Since I did not use the keyword 'Visconti' you could come to the conclusion that the AI system resorted to the Italian Renaissance style of images rather easily. Why not the Marseille style? Or Lenorman?

Further experimentation is needed in a barely touched way of designing!

#tarot cards #tarot design #midjourney #ai #Visconti

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Wishes delivered! Fast forward to an inspiring year and have a merry Christmas in the meanwhile.

#calligraphy #journaling #handwriting #santa claus

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Abbey Saint-Hilaire, Ménerbes

Musings, like the activity of monks. At least that’s what I think the inhabitants of this building did all day.

If it matters to you: drawing with Faber Castell Pitt pens, pencil and soft shading with watercolour in a Moleskine cahier. The 70gr paper does not handle much more. Watercolours are rarely intense. But to keep a diary like this one the paper quality is more than adequate.

#visualjournal #art journaling #travelersjournal #illustration #provence #luberon

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🎃 Sleep tight tonight and don’t let the bedbugs bite. 🎃

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Signification

Screen print on collage of found paper, offset poster and tape.

I used to call this type of serendipity an exercise. This was wrong and rather an example of procrastination and uncertainty. When we work on a piece, in no matter what way, don’t we always try to make the best of it?

#asemic art #asemic #screen printing #collage #contemporaryart #printmaking

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Where are you headed?

Is the main question I'm asking myself in this artist's book.

Note: the portret of the man with a paperhat is not my head. He's a reader of daily newspapers and sure doesn't know where he is going to.

#artists book #asemic writing #asemic art #bookbinding #journaling

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The workshop, my hole & corner.

With the emphasis on 'work'.

#calligraphy #printmaking #atelier d'écriture #teamscribebynight #handwritten

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4 Pages about the hands of Dotremont

Together with Henri Michaux, Dotremont is my role model when it comes to discretely practicing my art. Therefore a study of his hands was inevitable.

#visual poetry #journaling #Christian dotremont #handwriting #logogrammen #peinture-mots

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The artist’s book

Still figuring out what it exactly is. Is the most important criterium that it should look weird, laden with difficult theories, one of a kind, …?

Or can it be a collection of holiday sketches with some asemic writing because I just felt lazy in my transat and didn’t know what to write about?

#artists book #lazy theory #sketches #bookbinding #asemic writing

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Mistral, who are you?

#provence #oppede le vieux #animation #sketching

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Flipping through old journals

Now that we are grounded for medical reasons, I started flipping through old journals. Our Provence village of Oppède-le-Vieux where we live never seemed so far away as now. It's cobbled streets, the street signs in fer forgé, the quiet & stillness, the olive and fig trees.

Next to the fact that we miss all that, for me personally it seems that this way of journaling with text and images is very much connected to a sense of place. It's been weeks since I've put any meaningful line on paper. This does not follow the advice I read in so many therapeutic books and on websites. Journaling, for the moment, does not relieve me from heartache and pain.

#journaling #art journal #moleskine #provence #oppède-le-vieux #journals

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Ode to the Sun

Sound on please.

Images, writing, artwork, by dessinauteur.

Music: Christian H. Sötemann, The Aural Rear-view Mirror / https://archive.org/details/theauralrearviewmirror

#sun #journaling #writing

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One-track mind named ignorant

"A higher education is only a higher form of ignorance. Increasingly, we teach more and more about less and less,” Andy Martin writes in In the age of Wikipedia, is it better to study everything?

#andy martin #ignorance #one-track mind #education #teaching

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Palimpsest calligraphy

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.

something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.

Note to self: stop searching for expensive unspoiled tomoe river paper because it’s discontinued. It’s cool to use old printer paper or notebook pages.

#palimpsest #calligraphy #asemic writing #asemic art #recycle #writing #paper

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Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and hunted.

AZ

This one came pretty close!

#quote #rhinoceros #beetle #journaling #freedom #sketchbook

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New blog post, since long, on my renewed website. All quite irrelevant information for this world. (no mention of corona or COVID-19 in the piece)

#markmaking #gestural art #historylesson

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Continuous learning in a zibaldone

I discovered the zibaldone because I felt restricted by the other kind of notebooks I was keeping. The problem lay in the combination of two disciplines in one word. Because finally there was always too much of one or the other.

Art journal: depending on the feeling of the moment, there was too much art and not enough journal. Or vice versa. Sketchnote: too much note and too little sketch.

In the blogpost on my website I compare it to different kind of bicycles. Kind of bizar when rereading it after a year. And especially because I don’t have a bike.

#zibaldone #journaling #commonplace book