[painted-now]

+1

I guess the autor deliberately intended to have no deliberate intention in mind while painting.

Also, the author somehow "allows" the pictures to cause feelings in the viewer, but says that he/she removes him/herself from the equation. But I think he/she is a viewer of his/her own pictures while drawing it. There is definitely some feedback going on.

So one improvement could be to draw without looking at the output.

But maybe the best way to go here is to computer-generate some pictures. And one is also not allowed to hand-pick a generated picture. And one should have nothing in mind while writing that computer program.

[lancesells]

Even if you aren't able to see the art while creating it you would still know a little of what's happening on the canvas. It would be farther removed for sure, but even the physicality of the scraping here would start to tell you what is happening.

I like the idea though, and it does take the artist a little further away.

[hemmert]

That's an interesting idea! I'm also trying to paint something nice, so when painting, I do look at the picture and say: "Ahh, this doesn't look right.", and then I go about and change something. I do enjoy painting, and I guess I wouldn't if I, say, blindfolded my eyes. But I probably should try that ;-)

[pbhjpbhj]

Train a GAN with images with intent, then have the computer produce an image that lacks intent of an artist but imitates the visual amenity of the input works? Art-in-the-shell??

[lancesells]

But then you have digital pictures and nothing physical. All the fissures and layers of scraping would be missing.

[hemmert]

There are actually some nice robot arms painting pictures and doing calligraphy:

https://www.pinterest.de/pin/brobot-desktop-robot-arm-is-pra...