When Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo toiled for four years on his master work. Renoir spent six months painting Luncheon of the Boating Party—the painting featured in the film Amélie. Even Guernica, which Pablo Picasso painted quickly to publicize the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica, took over a month to complete. Continue reading “How Do You Paint 10,000 Paintings a Month?”
Robo Painter Full Color Art Replication
The robotic painter has been upgraded with a water pump and water brush, faster 84 MHz Arm Cortex-M3 (up from 16 MHz), and minor software improvements. It can now replicate color mixing and reproduce full color paintings, and on top of all that it can do it faster than the original artist (because it skips lulls in movement). Continue reading “Robo Painter Full Color Art Replication”
Robo Painter
Over the past three weeks I’ve been working on a robotic painter to research the area of mechanical artwork reproduction and automated picture to painting creation for Instapainting.com. Continue reading “Robo Painter”
Brawling Bohemians
New York has all sorts of scary people: cocaine-fueled traders, Harlem hoodsters, and Italian mobsters, all come to mind. But starving artists? Not so much. Continue reading “Brawling Bohemians”