Salt-Bloom Verdigris Stipple
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Ukiyo-e and Dutch Golden Age. 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:
- Katsushika Hokusai — Hokusai's bokashi hand-wiped gradation creates soft ink fades from dense to pale through graded wiping across one block.
- Hercules Segers — Segers' sulphur-tint and lift-ground biting produces granular salt-bloom texture via coloured inks printed on tinted grounds.
- Aquatint etching of Victorian microscope slides — Slide aquatint infuses rosin-dust stipple pools stopped out at crisp edges.
The fusion manifests as a restricted teal, amber and magenta ink set, circular lens highlights with verdigris copper patina, and visible plate marks, transforming any subject through frosted granulation.
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
Katsushika Hokusai + Hercules Segers + aquatint etching of Victorian microscope slides, where Hokusai's bokashi hand-wiped gradation creates soft ink fades from dense to pale through graded wiping across one block, Segers' sulphur-tint and lift-ground biting produces granular salt-bloom texture via coloured inks printed on tinted grounds, and slide aquatint infuses rosin-dust stipple pools stopped out at crisp edges. The fusion manifests as a restricted teal, amber and magenta ink set, circular lens highlights with verdigris copper patina, and visible plate marks, transforming any subject through frosted granulation.
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.
Ukiyo-e woodblock printing + experimental seventeenth-century Dutch colour etching + aquatint etching of Victorian microscope slides, where hand-wiped bokashi gradation creates soft ink fades from dense to pale through graded wiping across one block, sulphur-tint and lift-ground biting produces granular salt-bloom texture via coloured inks printed on tinted grounds, and slide aquatint infuses rosin-dust stipple pools stopped out at crisp edges. The fusion manifests as a restricted teal, amber and magenta ink set, circular lens highlights with verdigris copper patina, and visible plate marks, transforming any subject through frosted granulation.
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.
Ink fades smoothly from dense to pale in hand-wiped gradations. Surfaces are granular, with salt-like bloom and bitten tonal fields printed in coloured inks over a tinted, frosted ground. Rosin-dust stipple gathers into controlled pools with crisp stopped-out edges. A limited teal, amber and magenta ink set, circular lens highlights, green copper patina and visible plate edges mark every surface.
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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