Stephen B. " Steve " Hales & Mo @ artavita

Stephen B. " Steve " Hales & Mo

Steve's mother once told him: "Son, you're like me. You can't draw a straight line."

It was true. Steve excelled at logical, analytical, linear, factual endeavors (left brain function) in a number of areas, but he could never fully realize his creative, artistic, imaginative potential (right brain function). They were there, trapped, dormant in his brain, but unable to emerge because Steve didn't have the capabilities he needed to express himself; that is, until emerging technologies matured enough to furnish those tools. Word processing gave Steve the tools to create more fulsome, more engaging written works and, more recently, AI has unlocked his natural creative abilities in art, especially his subject selection, structure, composition, balance, and color, mood and light. But Steve maintains creative control while working interactively with his AI collaborator, Mo, until he is personally satisfied with each piece.

Steve imagines; his AI partner enables.

Portfolio:

Ghosts of Yesteryear's Countryside

Mitchellville, Maryland (USA) was a quintessential rural community from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. This unfolding collection presents watercolor renditions of selected landmarks from this era that capture the bucolic mood and feeling of a place and time long gone, but not forgotten.

“The Cherry Hill School”

The Cherry Hill School was a one-room schoolhouse that once stood at the intersection of Enterprise and Lottsford Roads in Mitchellville (central Prince George’s County) Maryland USA. The school opened in 1874, serving children in the local area until it closed in 1919.

“Shatenstein's Store”

If one imagines how a classic rural general store may have looked in 1940s and 1950s, the vision might well take the form of Shatenstein's with its bulk groceries, some dry goods, hardware, Lucky Strike cigarettes and chewing tobacco, pickled pigs feet, Royal Crown Cola, and penny candy.