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Pigment Wash

An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.

Pigment Wash hero
Pigment Wash proof 1
Pigment Wash proof 2
Pigment Wash proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{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
Slot recipes
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.
watercolourink-lineworkpigment-washwet-on-dryhigh-key
Credits · in the lineage of
  • Loose expressive watercolour paintingTraditionsaturated translucent pigment

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.

produced by unrecorded · sourced by unrecorded · images by unrecorded

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.
try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.