Category: Art

State of the Author, 3Q2025

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This really should have been “State of the Author, Mid-Year,” but I was dealing with health issues for most of June (nothing serious, just distracting) and then July was kind of busy at work, so here we are…

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Midjourney Monday: Daumier and Austen Part II

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There were too many to fit into last week’s post on the results of prompting Midjourney with the name of artist Honoré Daumier and various Jane Austen characters, so here’s the overflow:

Edmund Bertram and Fanny Price (Midjourney doesn’t like her nickname, so use her Christian name of Frances Price. Also there are glancing references to both characters being blonde in the book, and I had to include that in the prompt).

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Midjourney Monday: Meet Honoré Daumier

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier

This French artist (1808-1879) is perhaps best known for his caricatures, but he was also a capable painter, and I guess he must have painted a bunch of images set in the early ninteenth century, because you can prompt Midjourney with his name and various Jane Austen characters and get something halfway plausible:

Yes, I know Austen said that Jane Bennet was the one who liked green, but these sure look like Lizzy and Darcy to me.

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Midjourney Monday: Flavia os Winterhalter’s Sitting Room

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Basically, the third book in the Hunter Healer King series has a lot of stuff going on, including the election of a new Emperor (if you’ve never heard of this being a thing, look up the Hapsburgs and how they originally became Emperors of central Europe). Flavia was one of the candidates, but after her husband and political ally is injured, she withdraws. Her brother, Prince Bertram os Carlhart, convokes a sort of informal council of himself, Flavia, series protagonists Maxim and Chloe, Maxim’s cousin Victor, and friendly rival candidate Father Feuerbach to decide what to do next. They meet in the room shown below.

Midjourney Monday: Spot the Difference

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I had to use “Vary Region” on this image. Vary Region is a Midjourney tool which keeps most of the image intact and only changes one area in it. The first image below is the revised image, the second one below is the original. Can you see what was changed?

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Midjourney Monday: Reception Area aboard The Last Repose

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From the space regency, a brief bit of scene setting and the image which helped me visualize it, although you can also see where I chose to ignore it:

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