Jay Ressler • Artist

Jay Ressler • Artist

Artistic Images and Sometimes Commentary

  • Rattlesnakes Dancing with Store Mannequins in Lake Mist I - AI Generated Image
  • The Mists of Avalon Before Arthur II - AI generated image
  • Sailing the High Seas with Blue Mermaids and Pink Dolphins - AI Generated image
  • The Mists of Avalon Before Arthur I - AI geneerated picture
Artificial Intelligence 

No 38. AI Experiments

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These are digitally enhanced versions of images I created using an Artificial Intelligence bot, Midjourney. The bot responds to verbal prompts, providing a few initial choices, which can be further refined using the bot. Colors tend to be flat or near grayscale, unless specified in the initial prompt. I made further digital enhancements using Adobe Photoshop. These were created using the limited trial version. Many artists are exploring how to use AI in the creative process. Here are a few examples of the issues in the discussion: From The New York Times and from Art News

 

Jay M. Ressler

Jay Ressler Composite Photography, Encaustic Art, and Oil Painting He is an outstanding location photographer and painter, with an eye that can capture the soul of a Havana back street as beautifully as the sip of a hungry hummingbird, often with compelling black and white images. Jay Ressler is best known for artistic expression that lives in layers between opposites. “I like to explore boundaries,” he explains. “Boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, between reality and imagination, between certainty and skepticism.” He does this by compositing his own photography in multiple layers to produce stunningly original, interleaved images. Using Photoshop, other image manipulation software and a variety of digital effects, he paints one photographic layer on top of another. He takes advantage of textures he's captured along with an array of processes for manipulating light, contrast, and color to tell the story. “Distorting and reinterpreting the literal 'machine moments' captured by the camera is as old as the art of photography,” he insists. Jay occasionally extends his multi-layered approach to encaustic mixed media creations. Based on ancient techniques, the process begins with cooking his own recipes of beeswax and damar resin and applying this medium between the layers of photographic images, along with various pigmented compounds and materials to add color, texture and expression. Either way, the results are riveting. The viewer is drawn into an unfolding, dreamlike scene that might be heart-warming, haunting, gritty, poignant or magical. Sometimes, within the various layers, all of the above. The award-winning photographer/artist has many dimensions himself. He studied advanced digital photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and advanced encaustic techniques with leading instructors in the field. He worked as an underground coal miner, steelworker, machinist, labor and civil rights activist, copywriter and commercial printer. He has a BS in Psychology from Albright College.

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