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Corroded Teal Runoff
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
The blend
The prompt combines 2 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Ashley Wood — Wood's gestural splatter and runoff creates thin vertical drips and flicked specks through loaded-brush flicking and gravity-fed thinned paint.
- Dave McKean — McKean's layered scanned-texture collage produces corroded, scratched surfaces via multiplied grunge overlays and smoke-like soft scumbling.
The fusion manifests as a restricted viridian-teal, ivory black and iron-oxide red palette, crushed shadows with a single edge-lit rim, and mottled erosion at every border, transforming any subject through distressed, atmospheric surface handling.
On 4 models
The same prompt and the same subject, rendered by different image models — so the differences are the model, not the prompt.
The prompt
Original
Ashley Wood + Dave McKean, where Wood's gestural splatter and runoff creates thin vertical drips and flicked specks through loaded-brush flicking and gravity-fed thinned paint, and McKean's layered scanned-texture collage produces corroded, scratched surfaces via multiplied grunge overlays and smoke-like soft scumbling. The fusion manifests as a restricted viridian-teal, ivory black and iron-oxide red palette, crushed shadows with a single edge-lit rim, and mottled erosion at every border, transforming any subject through distressed, atmospheric surface handling.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Model-neutral
The same look with artist names and copyrighted references removed — for models that refuse them.
Gestural splatter-and-drip comic-illustration painting + scanned-texture mixed-media collage, where loose flicked splatter and runoff creates thin vertical drips and flicked specks through loaded-brush flicking and gravity-fed thinned paint, and layered scanned-texture collage produces corroded, scratched surfaces via multiplied grunge overlays and smoke-like soft scumbling. The fusion manifests as a restricted viridian-teal, ivory black and iron-oxide red palette, crushed shadows with a single edge-lit rim, and mottled erosion at every border, transforming any subject through distressed, atmospheric surface handling.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Effect only
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Thinned dark paint is flicked and left to run in thin vertical drips, with scattered specks across the field. Corroded, scratched, mottled textures are stacked in layers, and soft smoky scumbling blends them together. Only viridian-teal, ivory black and iron-oxide red appear. Shadows are crushed to near black, light is held to a single thin rim, and every border erodes into grain.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Using it
- Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
- The original names artists. Some hosted models refuse that or quietly render around it — on those, use the model-neutral version, which describes the same handling without the names.
- The effect-only version drops the recipe altogether and describes only what the style does to a surface. Use it to mix this look into another style, or when you want nothing traceable to a source.
- Every sample here was rendered against the same short subject — Quiet streets whisper / Her footsteps echo softly / Sunlight paints her path — so it shows the style, not a lucky subject.
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