Loose Oil Portrait

Illustration · Oil · Painterly

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Loose Oil Portrait, Thick wet brushwork where the face resolves only at a distance — Figure in a red coat·Nano Banana Pro

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 contemporary oil portrait of a young person in a red hooded coat, painted wet into wet with broad loaded brush strokes that stay visibly separate. Edges lost and found so the shoulder dissolves into the background, deliberately wrong colour in the shadows with green and violet in the skin, thick paint catching light where it stands proud of the canvas. Abstract up close, resolving into a face at a distance. Muted background of the same palette.

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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.