DVArtist Nicole Campanella's blog. Living in the Pacific Northwest sharing my experience with gardening, recipes and my art in extreme Halloween, graphite, acrylics, leather, and clay. Please join in with Friday Face OFF. Create a blog post, feature a face in any art medium. The faces can be human, alien, animal, and the strange and wonderful. Link up and share.
Ever have one of those weeks where your days are just off. I swear, I'm losing my mind. I get up early this am to go have an ultrasound on my thyroid. I'm all ready to go, step outside to freezing howling wind. Get over to the hospital where imaging is. Give the girl my name and birthday. She precedes to tell me that my appt is tomorrow morning. OMG!!!! Really???
Here it is Monster Monday. My weekend went by very fast. I did attend a live art class in colored pencils. I enjoyed it very much. I've been wanting to learn some technical points for colored pencil art and the teacher hit every one of them. It was a nice class.
Monsters. I can't get enough of them. Most of you know that this is me year round.
For my first one I have a skeleton bird made out of water. You can only do this with AI.
I did combine two images together.
Same image as above just worded differently. I like this one best.
Change the wording again and get this.
These are different prompts from above.
These girls have legs.
How about some bug skeletons? with a bit of human.
Now for some pretties.
The pretties are for challenges. Not something I normally make.
This last one I made the top 5% in a challenge with just over 6,000 entries. So this is pretty good.
That's it for now.
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You
know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, Photography,
drawings, paintings. There just needs to be a face in your blog post.
Have you ever created a self portrait? I haven't but I'm going to. I would like you to think about this because I'm going to have a challenge on self portraits. I will be announcing all the details in the next months.
So, why not start now? It can be any type of art EXCEPT photographs. With that said a photo of you must be present so we can see, it's really you. 😁
I will tell you that this is going to be very difficult for me. I am NOT photogenic AT ALL! I stay away from the camera. However, I think this might be fun.
Now for FFO
I have to figure out some sort of lighting in my house to take photos of my drawings.
She started like this.
This woman has the flattest lips and mouth that I have ever seen.
As if her lips were just stuck on her face.
Then she looked like this and I was starting to love how soft the shading is.
I finally ended her like this.
I wish I had the same lighting as the photo above. Because in real life here skin appears to be very soft. Also she has white hair.
Here is some AI art from my NightCafe gallery. First the creepy.
Some pretties.
If you want to try your hand at AI art join in at NightCafe. It's free.
Here are some features.
Violetta always takes us on the most exciting adventures.
Linda is an incredible artist and there is always something extra on her blog.
Roentare shows the finest street art. Everyday people that we can all relate too.
I'm writing this post Sunday night. I have a full day tomorrow and won't have time.
If you would like to create your own amazing AI art join NightCafe it's free to create and it's so much fun!
Since this is Monster Monday I will show those first.
Also click on the photo for larger view.
Molten women
View the art of it
In AI I can create long hair. LOL
All of these came from the same prompt.
Some of these I made when I first joined NightCafe
I love her hair.
They're just out for a family walk
Enjoying the sights.
This is more surreal, but pretty and she has great hair.
At 5PM everyday I get to create something and earn credits. If I keep up my streak, every 5 days I get 200 credits and the use of a PRO engine. I was able to create this.
Here are some more pretties.
I normally create 4 images at a time. This gives me options to publish or join in challenges.
I do like the yellow
You don't have to create faces and people.
It truly is open to anything. There is also several options to enhance your images.
I created these for a challenge. Only one is used for challenges.
That's it for now. I hope your give AI a try on NightCafe.
Not too much going on around here. It has been raining with wind so staying inside is good with me. We did go to Eugene last Thursday for an eye appt for Mr. M.
Then off to the best grocery store in Oregon. I know they are located in WA. state too. It's called Winco
While all other grocery stores have quadrupled their prices, Winco has managed to keep things steady and even lowered prices on some items. Their, "winco" brands are excellent and always a deal. I got canned goods for .50 cents a can. That is unheard of in my town. Where canned veggies run about $1.89 a can.
I got a good months of food for $175.00. It is worth the drive.
Mr. M. loves Poblano casserole so I made one last week. Now, with his one kidney not doing great everything I make is kidney friendly. Using ingredients at are good for him. Ground turkey, low fat, low sodium cheeses. Rice is excellent for CKD.
We had veggie plates a few times this week and then I wanted to make Manicotti. At Winco I got all of the cheeses that I needed. When we started a kidney friendly diet I thought the low fat, low sodium foods would be terrible.
Actually, they are quite good.
I made the sauce first. Since I can my own tomato sauce I know it's kidney friendly.
I don't make a rich sauce for Manicotti. The cheese is rich enough. A bit of ground turkey and onions and seasonings. The sauce was a little bitter. Sprinkle some baking soda on to remedy this.
It makes the sauce bubbly for a minute.
but removes the bitterness.
I make the cheese filling and both sauce and cheese go into the firdge until the next day when I put everything together.
With the cheese cold, filling the Manicotti shells is very easy. Top with cheese and bake until bubbly hot.
Just out of the oven.
I don't know if this photo looks apitizing or not but I can tell you this was my best ever Manicotti.
