A photographer friend of mine has been using Ideogram and more lately, Google's Nano Banana image generators to synthesize images and modify real photos. I just started experimenting with carving, engraving, and embellishing bowls with color after attending live demos with Mark Gardner and J, Paul Fennell at my local AAW chapter (BAWA) meetings. I have a bowl in progress that I am trying to decide how to complete. I have it to the point of mostly turned (top is complete, bottom is mostly turned but still attached to a sacrificial block and the chuck). It's African mahogany and will finish out at 12" D x ~2" high. The central bowl is 6" D.
I incised the upper rim using an Automach engraver, then painted it with black iridescent acrylic (which turns out to be more bronze in color). I'm now trying to decide whether to leave it as is or go into Stewart Furini mode and take it too far
. So the first image is the bowl as it stands now. The second two images are the result of uploading the original and asking Nano Banana "Using this image of a wooden bowl, color only the outer rim black" and "..., color the outer and inner rings black, but do not modify the middle ring".
Anyone else doing this? Any comments on which looks better?
I incised the upper rim using an Automach engraver, then painted it with black iridescent acrylic (which turns out to be more bronze in color). I'm now trying to decide whether to leave it as is or go into Stewart Furini mode and take it too far
. So the first image is the bowl as it stands now. The second two images are the result of uploading the original and asking Nano Banana "Using this image of a wooden bowl, color only the outer rim black" and "..., color the outer and inner rings black, but do not modify the middle ring".Anyone else doing this? Any comments on which looks better?
