Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.