Experiment with Generative AI Art

As an experiment with Open AI Art, I tried to create a cover design for my next novel, whose working title is The Foark River Hair and Tanning Salon and Bait Shop. The final one may be truncated from that. It is based on a play I wrote, which was a comedy, but the whole vibe is quite different. 

I used the AI app the first time to create a rather bland convenience store look. I would not use it, of course, and as I hope to have this published by someone else, that will be their task. 

Here is the first version. 

Then my husband suggested I ask it to do the same in the style of Howard Finster's art. He is a popular figure here in Northwest Georgia. 

The second is eye -catching, but has some big problems. I can't have Howard Finster's name on it, and good grief, the writing is almost all gibberish. I posted this to Facebook to see what folks thought, and they love the Finster look. 

I find the background interesting. That is a really sketch looking shack there. This is definitely poor, rural South in the winter (notice the bare trees). Whatever data the AI used for this "creation" it was not immune to stereotypes. Then again, I've been to Paradise Gardens quite a few times. . . .