With the heat outside, summer is for sure among us. A great moment to get the easel out into our beautiful garden and create some paintings of the beauty of nature.

We have a large pond in our garden and this time of the year is shows its beauty in all its form and colors. The water vegetation is at its peak with a wide variety of shapes, forms and an almost infinite range of values and colors. The gold fish are happy and shining as never before. A whole range of insects and other tiny creatures move around on there own personal missions.

I started a new watercolor painting of our pond and the beautiful water lilies it contains. We have several species which have beautiful white and pink flowers that show up against a wide palette of colored leafs. This time I chose to depict a white lily which was surrounded with colorfull leafs and some red bushes.

I am happy with the result. The new painting is a fine addition for my art series Nature.

See you outside !

The March 2 Infinity art series has been extended with ‘GAN’ based digital artworks and made available as NFT on HEN.

This art series examines the impact of technology on humankind and the quest for Transhumanism.

I envision that in a not so far future the earth has undergone dramatic environmental changes. Within those strange landscapes, leftover human groups wander around in search of huge black obelisks which are told by their prophets to hold the long forgotten and forbidden knowledge of Transhumanism. With this knowledge humans can become gods and reach for the stars and leave the destroyed Earth. Just like their lucky ancestors once did.

The traditional landscape artworks are executed in oils and charcoal and use a fluid, expressive style.

The subject matter & impact of technology is ideal as a concept to experiment with ‘Generative Adversarial Network’ (GAN for short) machine learning. Basically a deep learning network of computers uses my artworks to train itself to generate new art combining my art and public available internet images.

The results are further digitally reworked and fitted into the theme of the art series.

The art works are now available as single edition NFT’s on the clean Tezos blockchain platform. You can collect them via my M2I Art account.

I hope you enjoy the new creative possibilities and will join me with the march 2 Infinity.

Our website is growing with new art content. I am proud to announce the addition of a new art series.

This series includes modern, expressive works on the theme of inner soul searching.

In this art series I introspect people’s feelings and depict the bleeding of their inner soul.

Currently there are 4 art works added but I am quite sure the series will grow in the future.

The art series ‘Seeds of Love’ welcomes 4 new art works.

The theme encompasses the concept of “seeds of love” that shoot from the mother’s heart and soon a network of roots and hearts swirls around us.

I added some new works that explore the chaotic nature with more colors and different patterns.

Discover the full art series at Seeds Of Love.

The works are also available as NFT on the green blockchain platform ‘VeChain’. You can find them at the ‘World of V’ marketplace.

I am excited to announce I am launching my first Crypto Art (NFT) collection on the OpenSea platform. The art series ‘March 2 Infinity - Visions’ - regarding humanities quest into transhumanism - is started with 10 minted works.

The art series ‘March 2 Infinity - Visions’ - regarding humanities quest into transhumanism - is based upon my traditional art series ‘The March To Infinity’ and contains digitized reworked traditional art works.  They will not be available in the real world. The collection is started with 10 minted works that will be listed over the coming weeks but more will be added later on. 

Feel free to send me any upfront offers if you like them and don’t want to wait for the actual listing.

I am quite excited about this new online possibility to find new art collectors and to embrace these new technologies of the digital era.  Cryptocurrencies will become one of the default means of (online) payment in the near future.

Now for those a bit less tech savvy I hear you thinking “Crypto Art” .. “NFT” … what is he talking about ?

Right.

Let’s try to explain this with a simple analogy.

You probably have heard about the term “Cryptocurrency” or “BitCoin” before.  This is basically virtual money - living on the internet - in what we call ‘a blockchain’.

A blockchain can best be imagined as an ever growing train with each compartment holding a number of transactions.  The compartments are sealed once full thus the transactions are no longer modifiable and the train just keeps on growing longer when new transactions are executed. 

People use a virtual wallet (a software application) to communicate with this blockchain.  It tells you which of those transactions are yours … basically what you own on that blockchain ( thus hold in your wallet ).

Crypto Art ( or NFT - non-fungible token ) is created as a transaction on that train and it holds an unique reference to a digital artwork.  Once put into that compartment that link (and other data about the artwork) cannot ever be changed again.  When you buy such a digital token then that act of ownership is yet another new transaction on that blockchain.  From that point on you are the solely global owner of that artwork.  And the proof of that is registered in that sealed off compartment on that train .. euh blockchain.  There is nobody else that can take ownership as the compartment is sealed off nor can they claim they own it as everyone can look up that transaction on the blockchain and verify who owns it. 

Obviously you can still sell that artwork and thus transfer the ownership if you want to somebody else. That again will be a transaction that can be verified and is persisted in the blockchain.

NFT items are unique items on the blockchain - the creator of that NFT guarantees there is only 1 unique copy.  Semi-NFT items exist as well - these can be created in limited supply amounts of eg 50 pieces.

OpenSea is one of the platforms that allow you to browse and trade such items. 

Artists can use it to manage their unique collections and sell or auction items.  NFT’s are considered to potentially be the future of ownership in the new digital era. New art collectors arise that simply want to digitally collect and own artworks. And potentially invest in digital artists and the fact their works become more famous.  It is becoming a digital alternative to the current art world of galleries and collectors.

So what do you need ?

In order to participate you will need:

• to install a crypto wallet on your computer or smart phone - MetaMask is quite popular and is installed as an extension in your web browser.
• obtain some cryptocurrencies by typically exchanging them against real money (called fiat currency).  Nowadays it can be as easy as using your VISA or Mastercard for that.

The above steps and even more are nicely explained in the following blog at OpenSea - How to get started.  

I sure hope I could make it a bit clearer what Crypto Art is all about.  If you do have additional questions then do not hesitate to contact me.

And hopefully I can soon count you in as a new digital art collector with a nice NFT Sedas in your collection.

Have a look at my collection and enjoy your new online art collection.

We have updated our Sedas Redbubble shop with all our latest artworks including our recent ‘Digital Waves’ art series.

You can now print these art works on a whole range of articles ranging from clothing, household items to electronics gadgets.

Here are some examples from the wide range of 90 plus available articles:

Interested ? You can find our Redbubble shop at the following link: https://www.redbubble.com/people/sedas/shop.

You can also look for art works via our art series and look at more examples for each work specifically and visit the direct artwork shop page.

I sure hope you will enjoy our art work on these articles.

Summer time is among us and the weather is nice and warm.

The ideal time to get the easel out into our beautiful garden and create some paintings of the beauty of nature.

We have a large pond in our garden and this time of the year is shows its beauty in all its form and colors. The water vegetation is at its peak with a wide variety of shapes, forms and an almost infinite range of values and colors. The gold fish are happy and shining as never before. A whole range of insects and other tiny creatures move around on there own personal missions.

With some free time at hand thus ideal conditions to create a range of new works for my art series Nature.

I took the habit of getting out every day and start a new watercolor painting of our pond and the beautiful water lilies it contains. We have several species which have beautiful white and pink flowers that show up against a wide palette of colored leafs.

Painting outdoors can be challenging with the ever changing light conditions and potential weather changes and the occasional visit of our cat ‘Toby’ but I do find it very rewarding and great to ease the mind and find a state of happiness.

And it also gives me a good excuse to wear my fancy hat :-)

I sure hope there will be plenty more sunny days to come so my collection of nature works can grow.

See you outside !