CATURDAY ART ~ ATHENA, CAT GODDESS OF WISDOM

Of course, we must first acknowledge our very own Athena, Cat Goddess.  
Here every Saturday inviting we pet bloggers to present and share 
our "visions of art" in any way we choose.  

We thank her.

Today, having read that for Halloween 2026, 

an "Athena costume", from the feature film The Odyssey,

is a favorite on many lists, 

we've chosen to share manipulated art of June ... 

as the Greek goddess of wisdom in two versions.

CATURDAY ART

a blog hop presented by

Athena and Marie

FIRST, June becomes the Greek goddess in a costume fully designed on

Adobe Creative Cloud, our traditional choice for photo-art.

Admittedly, working this way, with many layers, took us about

2-hours to complete the image to our liking and finally layer her

onto a background.  We've had family members travel to Greece

and "borrowed" a photo of theirs, removing them of course,

to achieve an authentic setting.

I was happy with the image ... sigh.

SECOND, on a whim, I asked Adobe Firefly [artificial intelligence for art]

to create an image of June, as Athena, the Greek goddess.

Costumed, with an appropriate background. 

Sigh.  My image, remember ~ to my liking, 2 hours of traditional

designing, but yes ~ I still find it fun and challenging, well ~

Firefly did it's thing, it's magic, and did it well, in less than a minute.

And here it is.  Impressive.  Yes, it is.

I had given it a different, silhouetted pose of June as the base

and limited direction.  I reduced the final image to the same size as

my own version, and placed it in an identical ruled gold frame,

otherwise I did not manipulate Firefly's work.

Briefly I felt a little sad, outdone, diminished.  Twenty plus years of

learning Adobe Photoshop, evolving into Adobe Creative Cloud and doing

my best to improve my limited artistic skills over time ...

now, in seconds, AI becomes the artist, and well...  impressive!

CATURDAY ART