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Loam

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

earth-pigment wash painting

1 hero · 2 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Loam — hand-painted earth-pigment gouache and watercolor washes layered like geological strata, pigments bleeding softly into one another with granulating sediment pooling in the grain, a delicate slightly-irregular hand-drawn contour line tracing the forms like botanical-illustration linework, {palette}, visible canvas-weave and handmade-paper texture filling the entire frame, matte and tactile, muted and desaturated, warm unhurried light, full-frame composition with no border or whitespace

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} composed as a wide full-bleed scene, earth-pigment strata washes spanning the frame edge to edge, contour line drawing the principal forms, parchment-cream and terracotta dominating with mossy-green and ochre accents, generous airy negative passages in the wash for overlay legibility

feature — a single {subject} centered, mineral-pigment washes pooling around it, organic contour line, taupe-and-clay midtones, paper grain visible throughout

avatar — a close head-and-shoulders {subject}, earth-pigment strata across the face, irregular botanical-illustration contour line, warm terracotta-and-moss palette, full-frame no border

empty-state — a sparse quiet {subject} with abundant soft parchment wash around it, faint granulating sediment, minimal contour line, calm and unhurried, room for a short message

illustration — {subject} rendered in full earth-pigment strata washes with confident organic contour line, mossy green and terracotta and mustard ochre layered like sediment, tactile handmade-paper grain across the whole frame

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Credits · in the lineage of

Earth-pigment wash paintingTraditiongeological layered washes

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

· Layer the washes like geological strata so color shifts in soft horizontal-ish bands across the form
· Let pigments bleed and granulate — leave sediment pooling in the texture for tactile depth
· Draw with a single slightly-irregular contour line, the way a botanical-illustration plate is inked
· Keep the whole palette muted and earthy: terracotta, fungal taupe, mossy green, warm clay, mustard ochre, parchment cream
· Fill the entire frame with the painted surface; the canvas/paper grain reads everywhere
· Keep light warm, matte, and unhurried

Don't

· Don't paint a deckle-edge, mat, or paper border inside the frame — no whitespace surround
· Don't saturate the color or add synthetic gloss / digital sharpness
· Don't show the apparatus (brushes, palette, easel) — the technique is on the subject, not the studio
· Don't let the subject domain dictate the style — it dresses a face, a city, or a teapot equally
· Don't render hard vector edges or flat fills; everything is wash, bleed, and contour

try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.