MAKE ME A LANDSCAPE, DO NOT INCLUDE ANY SKY
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 prompts. 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? What could AI—which is, after all, a human creation—have to tell us about our own human designs? Out of dozens of outputs, I selected nine to re-render in my own hand. This series is the result.
Spring Flowers After a Storm Has Just Passed Through
A buffalo standing in a puddle in a dirt road in the fall, with mountains in the background
A lush forest, fall colors, green waters, do not include any sky
Painting of a rural water tower
Morel mushrooms in a lime green forest with lava
Red barn in a field full of flowers
Fall colored bushes by a rushing river
River flowing through edge of a meadow in fall, stormy, with aspen trees and snowy mountains
