The Joy of Neural Painting

I am sure you know Bob Ross and his program The Joy of Painting where he taught thousands of viewers how to paint beautiful landscapes with a simple and fun way, combining colors and brushstrokes, to achieve great results very quickly. Do you remember him teaching how to paint a pixel at the time? of course not! However, most of the current generative AI Art methods are still centered to teach machines how to'paint' at the pixel-level in order to achieve or mimic some painting style, e.g., GANs-based approaches and style transfer. This might be effective, but not very intuitive, specially when explaining this process to artists, who are familiar with colors and brushstrokes. At Libre AI, we have started a Creative AI initiative with the goal to make more accessible the advances of AI to groups of artists who do not necessarily have a tech background.