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Dry-Drag Chalk Planes
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. 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 3 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Berthe Morisot — Morisot's long directional strokes create form from stacked opaque planes with unblended seams through quick alla prima laying-in.
- Édouard Vuillard — Vuillard's close-valued matte colour produces chalky, softly dissolving harmony via narrow value steps.
- Gouache on mid-toned board — The gouache infuses dry-brush drag where thin paint skips over the ground.
The fusion manifests as edges lost into the ground in shadow, crisp where a stroke ends, transforming any subject through cerulean, viridian and rose madder tints lifted with white.
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
Berthe Morisot + Édouard Vuillard + gouache on mid-toned board, where Morisot's long directional strokes create form from stacked opaque planes with unblended seams through quick alla prima laying-in, and Vuillard's close-valued matte colour produces chalky, softly dissolving harmony via narrow value steps, and the gouache infuses dry-brush drag where thin paint skips over the ground. The fusion manifests as edges lost into the ground in shadow, crisp where a stroke ends, transforming any subject through cerulean, viridian and rose madder tints lifted with white.
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.
Impressionist alla prima brushwork + Nabis distemper flatness + gouache on mid-toned board, where long directional strokes create form from stacked opaque planes with unblended seams through quick laying-in, and close-valued matte colour produces chalky, softly dissolving harmony via narrow value steps, and the gouache infuses dry-brush drag where thin paint skips over the ground. The fusion manifests as edges lost into the ground in shadow, crisp where a stroke ends, transforming any subject through cerulean, viridian and rose madder tints lifted with white.
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.
Opaque matte paint laid in long directional strokes that overlap as flat planes, with seams left unblended. Values stay in a narrow, chalky range of white-lifted tints. Thin dry paint drags and breaks over a mid-toned ground, leaving bristle streaks. Edges dissolve into the ground in shadow and turn crisp where a stroke ends. Surface is dull, with no gloss or smooth gradient.
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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