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Pigment Wash

Painting: watercolor painting, wet-edge brushwork

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The prompt

{subject}, rendered as a bold confident watercolour painting, {palette}, saturated translucent pigment fields with fine ink linework and crisp feathered wet-edge brush strokes, on bright pure-white archival paper, flat high-key gallery-clean composition

Materials
watercolor, ink, paper
Techniques
watercolor painting, wet-edge brushwork

watercolour, ink linework, pigment wash, wet on dry, high key

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: A wide full-frame subject painted in bold translucent watercolour pigment with fine ink linework, the composition filling the frame edge to edge on bright pure-white paper, luminous and confident.
  • Feature: A single centred subject in bold watercolour pigment with crisp feathered edges and fine ink linework on white, the subject filling the frame.
  • Avatar: A single tight subject motif in bold watercolour pigment with fine ink linework on white, centred and filling the frame.
  • Empty state: A faint single subject silhouette in low-opacity watercolour pigment on white, soft and quiet.
  • Illustration: A subject rendered in confident translucent watercolour pigment with fine ink linework and crisp feathered brush edges on bright pure-white paper, full-frame, no drawn border.

Guidance

Do

  • Apply the watercolour-and-ink wash treatment to any subject full-frame, edge to edge on bright white paper.
  • Keep pigment bold and confident with crisp feathered wet edges and luminous translucent layers.
  • Define forms with fine dark ink contour lines over the pigment fields.

Don’t

  • Never render the medium itself (no picture of paint, a brush, paper, or a frame).
  • Never let edges go muddy, grey, or beige; never wash the whole page flat.
  • Never include text, numbers, logos, drawn decorative borders, or empty negative space.

In the lineage of

  • Loose expressive watercolour painting, tradition. saturated translucent pigment

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Pigment Wash to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.