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Weathered Gilt Plaster
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Abstract Expressionism and Wabi-Sabi. 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:
- Reza Abbasi — Abbasi's supple calligraphic contour creates crisp ornamented surfaces through thin continuous outlines and fine stippled gold pattern-work.
- Antoni Tàpies — Tàpies's matter-painting erosion produces pitted, mottled grounds via scraping, sponge-dabbing and dry scumbled pigment.
- Fresco secco on aged lime plaster — The plaster infuses flaking pigment loss and mineral staining.
The fusion manifests as lost-and-found edges melting into crumbled texture, a restricted turquoise, yellow-ochre, vermilion and lead-white palette with metallic gold, and fine detail spent only where forms are most worked, transforming any subject through weathered patina.
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
Reza Abbasi + Antoni Tàpies + fresco secco on aged lime plaster, where Abbasi's supple calligraphic contour creates crisp ornamented surfaces through thin continuous outlines and fine stippled gold pattern-work, and Tàpies's matter-painting erosion produces pitted, mottled grounds via scraping, sponge-dabbing and dry scumbled pigment, and the plaster infuses flaking pigment loss and mineral staining. The fusion manifests as lost-and-found edges melting into crumbled texture, a restricted turquoise, yellow-ochre, vermilion and lead-white palette with metallic gold, and fine detail spent only where forms are most worked, transforming any subject through weathered patina.
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.
Persian court miniature painting + Informel matter painting + fresco secco on aged lime plaster, where supple calligraphic contour creates crisp ornamented surfaces through thin continuous outlines and fine stippled gold pattern-work, and eroded matter-painting produces pitted, mottled grounds via scraping, sponge-dabbing and dry scumbled pigment, and the plaster infuses flaking pigment loss and mineral staining. The fusion manifests as lost-and-found edges melting into crumbled texture, a restricted turquoise, yellow-ochre, vermilion and lead-white palette with metallic gold, and fine detail spent only where forms are most worked, transforming any subject through weathered patina.
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.
Thin, continuous, calligraphic outlines and tiny stippled gold highlights sit over flat, softly modelled colour. The surrounding ground is pitted, mottled and sponge-dabbed, with dry scumbled pigment, flaking losses and mineral stains. Edges are found in the worked areas and lost into crumbled texture elsewhere. Colour stays within turquoise, yellow-ochre, vermilion and lead-white, with metallic gold, and fine detail gathers only where forms are most worked.
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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