🔥 Warner Bros is suing Midjourney!🔥 They've cited mine and Gary's work like in the other suit, including that I was banned for criticizing the company. This now means Midjourney is being sued by Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, and the class action from artists. Let's gooo! 🔥

If you missed it, this week's cracking featured artists are @zoeranucci.bsky.social, Ian Ball and @primaryhughes.bsky.social ❤️

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 146) 6”x 8” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 145) 8”x 6” oil on board. Serenaded by some frogs for a few hours this afternoon. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 144) 8”x 6” oil on board. The wind blowing off the lake was making the trees creak. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 143) 6”x 6” oil on board. Trying a different palette, heavy on the quinacridone magenta today. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #lakesuperiorart

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 142) 6”x 6” oil on board. After being absolutely frigid last time, today was in the 70s and finally felt like summer. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #lakesuperiorart

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 141) 8”x 6” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #trees

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 140) 6”x 8” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #edgeprogear #trekellartsupplies

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 139) 6”x 8” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 138) 6”x 8” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #lakesuperior #puremichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 137) 8”x 6” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #lakesuperior #puremichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 136) 8”x 6” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #edgeprogear #trekellartsupplies #travelmarquette

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 135) ”6 x 6” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscapepainting #lakesuperior #puremichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 134) 6” x 6” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 133) 8”x 6” oil on board. Got this one to a decent finish in about 2 hours before the rain put a stop to it. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscapepainting #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark #edgeprogear #travelmarquette

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 132) 6”x 8” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscapepainting #lakesuperior

First plain air painting of the year. Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 131) 5”x 7” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter

American Illustration 43 Winner @primaryhughes.bsky.social @primaryhughes I explore the liminal space between clarity and intrigue beckoning viewers to enter into a narrative unfolding. #visualartist #professor #nmuillustration

Thursday night figure drawing @nmuart.bsky.social and @nmuillustration.bsky.social

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Something I did at work this week.

If you see this, quote post your green art 💚💚💚

Figure drawing of Amaraé

Pastel portrait drawing from this afternoon. #pastelportrait #portraitdrawing #lifedrawing

Company Travel Lemming submitted this letter and it’s fire! 🔥 This is the exact stance all companies and orgs that do not Google and Open Ai to take and use their creations to for free, should take!

Portrait demo from class today #portraitdrawing

Quick sale of some plein air oil paintings. $100 each shipped in US. Approx 5x7 inches. #pleinairpainter #pleinair #landscapepainting

Quick sale of some plein air oil paintings. $100 each shipped in US. Approx 5x7 inches. #pleinairpainter #pleinair #landscapepainting

Recent figure drawing

Drawer of figure drawings. They really start to pile up after a while.

Zelensky is a Hero. From the archives for R&P anthology.

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

Remember in The West Wing, Joey Lucas says the Repubs won't put English as the national language on the table—they would never risk losing Latino voters.

Figure drawing last night @nmuillustration.bsky.social

Great to find out "Resonance," was accepted to the Infected By Art 13th annual. Big thanks to Bill Cox and all the jurors!

Pulled out the pastels last week for this life drawing pose

Big 2025 mood.

Mitch McConnell voting against Hegseth is like Hannibal Lecter becoming a vegetarian on his deathbed

Art is about struggle, growth, human expression. Can’t let that get lost. #ArtEducation #AI #Creativity

No. This is nonsense. Generative AI isn't artificial intelligence, it's a theft machine, built on theft, sipping the lifeblood of our planet, vomiting out simulacrum of creativity and talent that is most striking its its uncanny valley hollowness. It is the corporate murder of creativity. A plague.

AND the moped requires 5 million unpaid runners just to turn on, only sort of goes in the direction you asked for 60% of the time, does not fundamentally understand roads and hard turns off bridges 10% of the time. A man with awful doll eyes has convinced the worlds wealthiest men the moped is good

Big thanks to the jury of the competition!

We must must must resist the idea that generative AI is inevitable. It is not inevitable. People don't really like it. It doesn't do its job well. It removes the humanity from one of the most human-forward things. Not to mention it is an environmental nightmare. Keep banging the drum. Say no to AI.

Figure drawing of Halo this afternoon #figuredrawing

“Arcade,” acrylic, 14 inch tondo for my show last year. #figureart #contemporaryart #disruptedrealism #primaryhughes #modernedengallery #neonoir

Portrait drawing from last night’s figure drawing session @nmuart

“Regent,” acrylic portrait from my show at Modern Eden. #NoAI