Artist residing in west America. Buffalo Bills and other curiosities.
Joined April 2009
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PAINTING TIME LAPSE - Buffalo in a puddle on country road, fall, mountai... youtu.be/Nuvgkf-16FY?si=193R… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - A high mountain lake, mountains behind, reflecting the morning sky (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/2uOSQ-afTAw?si=e_ns… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - A lush forest, fall colors, green waters, do not include any sky youtu.be/rUiDicvZzWM?si=4t_l… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - A vibrant colorful sky at sunset (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/jvM9ZQ1zjBU?si=LpBo… via @YouTube
TIME LAPSE PAINTING - Fall colored bushes by a rushing river (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/s5WMbftfIhA?si=osom… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - Fall trees, crisp blue sky, hazy clouds (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/NkygIUZ43QQ?si=ONZz… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - Morel mushrooms in a lime green forest, with lava ... youtu.be/ekKTOT8dXWs?si=YoC9… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - Red barn in a field full of flowers (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/EHAHd1vioTg?si=rYH6… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - river at meadow edge in fall, stormy, aspen trees,... youtu.be/K-bho_Bq7bA?si=LFz4… via @YouTube
PAINTING TIME LAPSE - Ruffed grouse, close up, in winter (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/VlBXlhLbAAE?si=eech… via @YouTube
TIME LAPSE - Rural water tower on the plains, windy day (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/T8h9qAEu09A?si=ZOY-… via @YouTube
TIME LAPSE - Snowy field with a jack fence (Ben Bloch) youtu.be/J3BNTsO-l2s?si=HhnC… via @YouTube
Whenever someone starts off saying something with
"Honestly, I..."
I kinda feel like they're about to tell me a lie.
😂🙃🤪😔
Prompt image generated by Ben Bloch image modeler: "A high mountain lake with mountains in the background reflecting the morning sky"
The rest is time lapse of me working a hand made version on canvas. At the end I liked the touch of adding a little wind on the water.
benbloch.com/make-me-a-lands…
In late 2023, with the generous help of fellow artist and tech wizard John Brownell, I used a collection of my own paintings to train a custom AI image model specializing exclusively in creating “Ben Bloch” style painting images, generated from text prompt
I wondered, what might these images based on a “Ben Bloch” visual language model have to offer to a landscape painter? What would happen if I reversed the feedback loop and re-rendered them in paint on canvas?
For the past year or so I've been working on a project where--with the help of the amazing @obliojoe --I trained an AI image modeler exclusively on my past paintings. Then I gave it text prompts to make "Ben Bloch images" of any scene I described.
The results were pretty interesting. Then I took it a step further by stretching large canvases and painting (in the traditional sense) a selection of the images it was producing. I'm excited to share the results now.
Each of the 9 large paintings in this series are on my website, with some time lapse videos and a bit of a fuller explanation of the project. Hope you have a chance to check it out!
benbloch.com/make-me-a-lands…