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Scratched Gauze Overlay
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. 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:
- Jaromír Funke — Funke's multiple-exposure layering creates overlapping translucent planes through stacked silvery gradations.
- Antoni Tàpies — Tàpies's sgraffito produces crusted, scratched surfaces via incised scoring into dry scumbled pigment.
- A bootleg Caribbean cable relay of a Miami variety show — The cable relay infuses flat opaque chyron bars, bevelled block lettering and a ghosted corner logo.
The fusion manifests as near-monochrome values with one saturated accent, hard-edged flat overlays against soft transparent veils, and interlace tearing, transforming any subject through gauzy layering punctured by crude broadcast graphics.
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
Jaromír Funke + Antoni Tàpies + a bootleg Caribbean cable relay of a Miami variety show, where Funke's multiple-exposure layering creates overlapping translucent planes through stacked silvery gradations, Tàpies's sgraffito produces crusted, scratched surfaces via incised scoring into dry scumbled pigment, and the cable relay infuses flat opaque chyron bars, bevelled block lettering and a ghosted corner logo. The fusion manifests as near-monochrome values with one saturated accent, hard-edged flat overlays against soft transparent veils, and interlace tearing, transforming any subject through gauzy layering punctured by crude broadcast graphics.
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.
Czech 1920s-30s avant-garde multiple-exposure photography + Catalan art informel matter painting + a bootleg Caribbean cable relay of a Miami variety show, where multiple-exposure layering creates overlapping translucent planes through stacked silvery gradations, incised sgraffito produces crusted, scratched surfaces via scoring into dry scumbled pigment, and the cable relay infuses flat opaque chyron bars, bevelled block lettering and a ghosted corner logo. The fusion manifests as near-monochrome values with one saturated accent, hard-edged flat overlays against soft transparent veils, and interlace tearing, transforming any subject through gauzy layering punctured by crude broadcast graphics.
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.
Near-monochrome silvery greys stack as overlapping translucent planes, with edges dissolving into haze wherever layers cross. Surfaces are crusted and scored, with scratched lines and dry scumbled grit catching raking light. Over this sit hard-edged flat opaque bars, bevelled blocky lettering with drop shadow and a faint ghosted mark in one corner, while interlace tearing breaks the high-contrast edges and a single saturated accent supplies the only colour.
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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