Neon Brush Abstract

Illustration · Abstract · Neon

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Colour over the form·Nano Banana Pro
Wide crop·Seedream 4.5
Square version·Seedream 4.5
Vertical study·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

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.

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A painting in which saturated fluorescent colour is swept across the surface in wide wet brushstrokes, magenta over cyan over acid green, until the underlying form is only just detectable beneath them. Nothing blended, the colours sitting on each other in layers with hard wet edges, a few near black strokes holding the composition together. Thick paint, high energy, no drawn line. Subject: a seated figure under the paint.

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

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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.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1280 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Only just detectable. Push the obscuring further than feels comfortable.
  • 2Layered wet edges, never blended gradients.
  • 3A few dark strokes stop it becoming a smear.

Things to try

Cool only

blues and greens

Sparser

fewer strokes, more ground

Black ground

the colour over dark

Portrait

a face under the paint

Thinner

washes instead of thick paint

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