Nicole, you are more than welcome to join us for Art with Friends whenever you are ready! 
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Thank you Norene! 
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Isn’t it? What’s fascinating to me is that by using these AI art tools and exploring what comes from the words and styles, I find myself both expanded in what I feel is possible artistically to be co-created by me… and at the same time feeling much much more connected to simple art that is hand-drawn as well!
Fascinating, isn’t it? Bend the mind to appreciate, become a participant, and appreciation expands and deepens. (Or, it has for me.)
We’re designed I feel to be co-creating and co-inspiring. Here are the words I saw from another AI artist where I felt drawn to their result, and when Norene had her elephants I felt inspired to try it with that:
two elephants walking away side by side , in the style of dark amber and purple, cute and dreamy, 32k, kitsch aesthetic, traditional, cabincore, weathercore
The only part I added/changed was “two elephants walking away side by side.”
Seems pretty insignificant, eh?
But what the tool came up with were 4 choices. I picked the one closest to what I wanted to convey, tried different variations, then chose the one I posted here. Was I an “artist” here? I say so.
I think about the stick drawing I could have tried to be “responding” to what I felt with Norene. And… this AI tool assisted result helped me glow!
What’s truly cool is that there are ways, if I decided to do a stick drawing, for MY stick drawing to act as the inspiration for the AI!
Truly… art with friends using the tools we humans are co-creating to make that expressive for what’s inside us… and cultivating what’s inside us.
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I definitely say you are an artist here! And I appreciate that you bring your imagination and AI tool to the group. Your two elephants walking away has given me more ideas/inspiration for my next elephant piece! 
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Here is “Shannon’s Turtle” … it feels complete to me! Thank you Margo and Jean for all your observations and suggestions as I worked on it! I leave on Sunday for Canada so will not be here with you on Aug. 29th. Keep creating and having fun and I will see you on Sept. 5th!
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We would love to have you join us Nicole. You could come in and observe, chat if you wanted and see what it’s all about. We just have fun.
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I love this Jean, your style is coming along and taking shape and like Norene I thought this is a self portrait. Is that what you had in mind?
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I love this Margo! Loving your style as it’s developing and coming into view 
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I’d like to keep in mind to join too at some stage. When its summer here and both/ all our daylight savings have clicked in it might be worth my giving it a try again. You’d all need to excuse my lack of verbalising at that time of the morning though 
It’d be great to hang out like this 
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Margo
LOVE LOVE LOVE the design, composition, the birds, the black & white … in other words, EVERYTHING about this piece Well done 
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Love it! I “riffed” on it using my geekiness. Like yours better and this still made me feel like we were jazzing together. Hope you don’t mind…
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You know how much I love this picture you drew with the birds
it was fun watching you create it and us talking about the different colors that could be used. I LOVE the black and white.
Ok here’s mine. I used a picture I saw and liked for my inspiration but of course I had to turn it whimsical.
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This is so YOU, Jean. I’m so glad you used the picture you liked as inspiration and not something to replicate exactly. I love the vibrant colors you chose as well as the shapes, numbers and words! Good job!
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What a beautiful riff, Rick! I totally get “jazzing together!”
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Wouldn’t it be fun to have these crayons 
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Too funny!
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Today we had an appointment and the traffic was crazy. Potholes in the roads too so it was a bumpy ride, This is how I felt when we got home.
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Well, that’s expressive! I can feel it!
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And I wasn’t even driving. For a while I felt like I didn’t want to go out again for a month.
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