Blog Posts

The Mixer Brush: Your Creative Bridge From Generative AI to Fulfilling ART

— My forever refrain is and shall remain, “Generated content in AI is fine (very much like acquiring stock images), but you must DO something creative with it. You are here to live an ARTISTIC LIFE, not an AI-generated life.” This normally amounts to creating models and content ready to extract and carry over into […]

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Beware the Poisoned Apple

— As mind-blowing and exciting as it is to be able to use AI to generate amazing models and content for your artwork … I feel I need to reiterate my one great caution: Do not confuse “I typed these words” with “I made this art.” Phil Steele generated the four amazing images you see […]

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The Fernando Jorge Miranda Interview

— The featured artist of the 92nd issue of Living the Photo Artistic Life magazine was AWAKE artist Fernando Jorge Miranda of Portugal. I’m excited to be finally bring you my interview with Fernando here on Quill and Camera . . . (Translated from Portuguese) In the picturesque scenery of the city of Porto, Portugal, […]

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Is AI-Generated Art Ethical?

— guest post by Phil Steele Controversy has surrounded every man-machine collaboration throughout history. Luddites smashed mechanical weaving looms in 19th Century Britain, fearing that the machines would displace hand weavers (which, of course, they did).   Fears of robots, automation, and computers-run-amok have attended every major advance in digital technology since the 1950s. Today this...

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The Terry Spear Interview

— The featured artist of the 97th issue of Living the Photo Artistic Life magazine is Texas-based best-selling author and AWAKE artist Terry Spear. I’m excited to be able to interview Terry here on Quill and Camera . . . Q: Let’s mix it up. Tell us a bit about how you start your projects. […]

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