Impasto Animal Painting

Illustration · Impasto · Thick Paint

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A small oil painting of an animal built entirely from thick slabs and ridges of paint laid on with a palette knife, so heavy that raking light casts real shadows across the paint surface. The form is only just legible, colours mixed directly on the canvas rather than the palette, patches of bare ground showing through. Photographed slightly off axis so the relief and knife marks are clearly visible.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

Download the examples

Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.