There is a moment in oil painting when the brush no longer describes, it presses.
Color thickens. Light slows.
The image stops being a…
For reference
Retexturing Comments
Using 'oil painting' in a prompt can add or replace the original with new subjects. Avoid by using an approximate subject.
- Use oil paint of [approximate subject] with style words. Deviate from the source image to create radical deviations
From other research use no more than 5 style words as more can have Midjourney 'drift way ' from oil painting style
Using 'with using the image palette' to retain the original colours
I have done something similar bore but an article on Medium reminded me :
Turn Any Image into a Perfect Midjourney Prompt (Using Google Gemini
Using a Rothko image on Tumblr :
ChatCPT Analysis
Here is a technical reading of the painting, translated into Midjourney-friendly language.
This image is in the color field / abstract expressionist tradition: a vertically oriented canvas built from two dominant chromatic zones, with a large, floating deep blue-violet rectangle suspended over a glowing orange-gold ground. The effect comes less from line or drawing and more from atmospheric color mass, edge diffusion, and luminous staining.
Technical characteristics
Structure: stacked, simplified composition with one monumental upper color block over a broad lower field
Edges: soft, irregular, feathered, slightly bleeding contours rather than hard geometry
Surface handling: thinly built, translucent layers with visible absorption into the ground; looks closer to staining, glazing, and scumbling than heavy impasto
Paint behavior: the upper dark form appears to have been built through multiple veils of ultramarine, indigo, and violet, allowing subtle internal modulation
Ground: warm lower field feels like a luminous ochre / cadmium orange / amber underpainting, possibly worked in thin passes so light seems to come through the layer
Transitions: gentle halos and blurred margins suggest wet-into-wet feathering, dry-brush drag at the borders, and repeated overpainting
Texture: mostly matte, velvety, absorbent surface; not glossy, not sharply graphic
Mood: meditative, solemn, spacious, contemplative, sublime through scale and chromatic tension
Palette
Upper block:
ultramarine blue
indigo
midnight blue
blue-violet
muted plum
near-black violet accents
Lower field:
cadmium orange
golden ochre
amber
saffron
warm yellow-orange
subtle burnt sienna undertones
Border interaction:
thin violet bleed
smoky blue haze
warm golden perimeter glow
Techniques to name in the prompt
color field painting
stained canvas effect
thin translucent glazes
scumbled pigment
feathered edges
blurred rectangular form
luminous underpainting
matte velvety surface
atmospheric chromatic depth
large-scale meditative abstraction
RESULTS :
A strong Midjourney prompt could be:
large-scale color field abstract painting, monumental vertical canvas, a floating deep ultramarine and indigo rectangular mass above a glowing cadmium orange and golden ochre field, soft feathered edges, blurred contours, translucent glazes, stained canvas effect, scumbled pigment, matte velvety surface, subtle violet bleed, luminous underpainting, meditative solemn atmosphere, atmospheric chromatic depth, museum-quality oil painting texture, abstract expressionist sensibility --ar 3:4 --stylize 250
A more art-historical version:
meditative color field abstraction, vertical format, vast blue-violet chromatic block suspended over a radiant amber-orange ground, soft dissolving edges, thin layered washes, glazing and staining, delicate halos, velvety matte surface, sublime silence, restrained palette, painterly depth, luminous and contemplative, non-geometric abstraction --ar 3:4 --stylize 300
Design notes : Trying out Chinese characters in Midjourney taken from the Book of Changes (IChing). Chinese characters only were used as prompts. The resulting images relate to the text.
One issue is that Midjourney will often add Chinese characters writing on the image. The text has been run through online translators but to very limited effect. Since the actual meaning of the characters could well be nonsense it is best to erase it out. An alternative which works occasionally in version 7 is using : --no text, character, letters in the prompt.
1.0 Begin with an offering; beneficial to divine.
元亨利貞.
1.1 Hidden dragon, do not act.
初九潛龍勿用.
1.2 The dragon is seen in the field.
It is favorable to see the powerful person.
九二見龍在田. 利見大人.
1.3 The upright person strives energetically all day long.
Vigilant day and night, thus averting blame.
九三君子終日乾乾. 夕惕若厲. 无咎.
1.4 Sudden leap into the whirlpool.
Blame averted.
九四或躍在淵. 无咎
The art style favour by the Jovians is generally unknown. As an alternative major art styles favoured by the four main races is use to represent the observatory. The terms are not used by the races themselves but contemporary English equivalents.
Art works were commissioned to highlight the importance of the gates in the Jita system given the current events.
A more figurative approach was used to broaden their appeal to a wider populace.
Prompt : a detailed Australian landscape with kangaroos in the foreground
An experiment with Midjourney 8.1 with one moodboard, four images as "image Prompts" and two abstract images as "Style References"
Midjourney Version 8.1 generates image faster than Version 7 and it also creates more accurate kangaroos.
There is more variety in versions in simple landscape prompts. The standard landscape in later versions is less of a desert.
If your credits can stand it using --v {8.1, 7, 6.1, 5.2, 4} for comparison is useful especially as the older versions can still create interesting variations.
Moodboards, Image Prompts and Style References are recommended to create more unique and personalised pictures.
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