Oil Roller Derby

 

sunBeam

 

Working through new features in the Studio Artist pre_V6 Oil Painter Ip Op effect over the course of the day during gallery show testing.

Pull it in

 

Oil paint current search option for the gallery show technique in a generative art strategy implemented in Studio Artist V5.5.5.

Let the craziness begin

A train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was suspicious about the presence of a Navy hospital ship docked there to help during the pandemic.

“You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to,” Moreno told investigators, according to the complaint. “People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will.”

Oh really?

Like a bad saturday morning cartoon show, the train smashed into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, then smashed into a steel barrier, then smashed into a chain-link fence, then slide through a parking lot, then continued across another lot filled with gravel, and finally smashed into a second chain-link fence”

Dead Bodies Everywhere

The song was actually written about the Bhopal gas release disaster. But it seems to particularly resonate for some reason this year. Perhaps Al Jourgensen has pre-cog abilities. Of course the actual song i'm referring to is called Union Carbide. We'll leave it to the gentle reader to figure out why. Do you prefer the club mix or the more brutal version on Big Sexy Land.

Anosmia

The team suspected that nerve cells responsible for smell may be damaged by the virus and so went looking through datasets to see if the cells contained ACE2 and one other protein that helps SARS-CoV-2 get inside cells. This is where the surprise came.

The datasets suggest its not nerve cells that SARS-CoV-2 enters, but a different subset of "epithelial" cells -- the cells on the surfaces inside your nose.  Whether or not COVID-19 can cause a permanent loss of smell is still to be determined. Imagine a world without smell.

My Plague Year, a18

Grabbed a V4 oil paint preset, and then knocked this out pretty quickly. I executed a pretty generic art strategy, successively reducing the brush size and max path length in a series of auto-paint cycles.

I then slammed through some Gradient Lighting variations using a low Mix setting. I interspace sharpening steps between the different gradient lighting octave passes to pull out better definition. So i'm building a multi-octave gradient lighting effect on the fly by manually manipulating Studio Artist ip op effects.

Martial Law

Maui police now giving out citations to people hanging outside looking to exercise saying they are in violation of public health emergancy rules.

Honolulu Star Bulletin reports homeless and 'scary types' taking over parts of Waikiki, who's current ghost town state makes the post 9-11 drop off in visitors look pretty insignificant. What i remember most about that post 9-11 era was Mayor Harris putting together free parking to encourage residents to stop by. So we'd go down and drink at the old Ilikai outside ocean view bar while crazy continuous 24/hour cable news coverage was playing on the bar tvs and military jets flew overhead. 

So yeah, this time is very different. I mean, the Cheesecake Factory is empty.

About that image. I started with a wet glossy oil paint preset from my V4 Collection. Then used extreme locally adaptive thresholding effects to build structure. Add some Smart Contrast effects. And a few other hand tweaks.

Welcome to the Team

Stable Genius and Light of Our Eyes Lord Emperor welcomes the four horsemen of the apocalypse to his coronavirus task force team. “You four horsemen have the unwavering support of the entire nation, the entire government, and the entire American people,” His Holiness says.

Don't be afraid to experiment with hand drawn selection masks to restrict image operation effects to specific locations of the canvas. Remember to feather the selection before you do this for best results. I used this a lot in this image to help focus the lighting where i wanted it to land in this image.

The Oily Way

Name taken from a song title off of an old Gong album. Still playing around with programing some new oil paint presets using Brush Load features.

Rough Oil Paint

Working with the new Brush Load features to make some new raised oil paint presets.

Ceremony

Working on some new ideas for oil painting effects in the paint synthesizer.

Evil Oil Look

This painting incorporates some recent ideas discussed on the Studio Artist user forum for generating an oil paint look. This is the evil version of the one i posted on the user forum a few minutes ago.

There is some use of path application repeat index modulation to generate color gradients in the paint strokes. I'm using the new Cycle- Colorful option for the gradient end color, so what it's doing to the color varies from paint stroke to paint stroke.

I'm also using Brush Load Lighting to generate an additional raised look to the paint. And i'm working with positive-negative space auto-selection to control the path start positioning a litle near the end of the paint action sequence that builds this effect up.

Obscured Portrait

Experiment generated while messing around with programing oil paint and canvas texture paint preset in the Studio Artist paint synthesizer.

Oil Paint Abstraction

Two different passes of an oil paint preset in Studio Artist. Cut down the brush size for the second pass and painted it in using source edge derived bezier paths.

Oil Paint Feature Refinements

Working on a lot of new paint synthesizer features to improve the positional accuracy of intelligent auto-painted paint strokes. Some user requests for improved oil paint features that very accurately reproduce source details is what originally pushed me in this recent development direction. Lot's of cool new stuff is being added to the paint synthesizer for the next Studio Artist release.

Yet Another Oil Paint Test

More tests of the new Studio Artist oil paint features. I was searching for some real high brow source material for these tests, ha, ha. You can build these presets using either multi-pen mode, or some new background texture options that simulate spread out bristles. And they are all using the new improved path divergence features. Which used to live in the Path End control panel, but i moved them to Path Angle since that's where they really belong conceptually.

Oil Paint Test 3

Another oil paint test, working with the new path divergences features in the paint synthesizer.

Oil Paint Test2

Some more experiments with the new path divergence controls in Studio Artist's paint synthesizer.

Oil Paint Test

Trying out some oil paint simulation experiments using the new path divergence features in the paint synthesizer.