Neo-expressive Painting

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Neo-expressive Painting, Raw brushwork, scrawled marks and a figure drawn like a warning sign — Scrawled cat figure

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Updated 1 Aug 2026

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Prompt

A raw neo expressionist painting of a black cat figure with bared teeth, drawn with scrawled childlike outlines over blocks of primary red, yellow and blue laid in with thick gestural brushwork. Visible corrections and painted over marks, scratched lines through wet paint, small symbols floating around the figure: a crown, an arrow, a grid of numbers. Canvas texture throughout, no blending, deliberately unresolved.

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Recommended settings

Size: 1024 x 1216
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Visible corrections are essential. A tidy version of this style is a different style.
2Floating symbols give it the right restless energy.
3Primary colour blocked in fast, no mixing.