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Tarred Gloss Crust
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Abstract Expressionism and Poster Art. 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:
- Manolo Millares — Millares's torn, tar-soaked sackcloth creates fissured, scarred crusts through scraping, scorching and gouged incision.
- Henryk Tomaszewski — Tomaszewski's cut-paper reduction produces flat monolithic colour planes with blunt abutting edges via torn-edge masking.
- Ga fantasy-coffin enamel painting — Coffin-painter enamel infuses one lacquered, mirror-bright plane against dull abraded earth pigments through multi-coat brush-drag gloss.
The fusion manifests as hairline cracks packed with worn gilt, rubbed-through layers, and stark matte-versus-gloss contrast, transforming any subject through pressed-flat, weathered simplification.
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
Manolo Millares + Henryk Tomaszewski + Ga fantasy-coffin enamel painting, where Millares's torn, tar-soaked sackcloth creates fissured, scarred crusts through scraping, scorching and gouged incision, Tomaszewski's cut-paper reduction produces flat monolithic colour planes with blunt abutting edges via torn-edge masking, and coffin-painter enamel infuses one lacquered, mirror-bright plane against dull abraded earth pigments through multi-coat brush-drag gloss. The fusion manifests as hairline cracks packed with worn gilt, rubbed-through layers, and stark matte-versus-gloss contrast, transforming any subject through pressed-flat, weathered simplification.
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.
Spanish Informel sackcloth matter painting + Polish school cut-paper poster design + Ga fantasy-coffin enamel painting, where torn, tar-soaked sackcloth creates fissured, scarred crusts through scraping, scorching and gouged incision, cut-paper reduction produces flat monolithic colour planes with blunt abutting edges via torn-edge masking, and coffin-painter enamel infuses one lacquered, mirror-bright plane against dull abraded earth pigments through multi-coat brush-drag gloss. The fusion manifests as hairline cracks packed with worn gilt, rubbed-through layers, and stark matte-versus-gloss contrast, transforming any subject through pressed-flat, weathered simplification.
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.
Flat, unmodelled colour planes meet at blunt, slightly torn edges. The ground is a scraped, scorched crust of dull earth pigment, rubbed through in patches to the layers beneath, with fine cracks and gouged lines packed with worn gilt. One surface is polished and lacquered, with brush-drag ridges and hard highlights, set against the abraded matte areas.
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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