One Colour Screenprint

Poster · Screenprint · One Colour

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Coastal scene in one blue·Nano Banana Pro
Alternate ink·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Full sheet·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the ink·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.

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

Prompt

A poster screenprinted in a single deep blue ink on cream paper: a simplified coastline with a headland, a scatter of tiny birds and a small table with bread and a bottle in the foreground. Unprinted paper carries the sky and the highlights, no tone or halftone anywhere, something is either printed or it is not. Bold simplified shapes, ink sitting visibly on the surface with a few skips, a large calm empty area in the upper half.

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
1024 x 1365
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1One ink and no halftone. Any tonal shading breaks the technique.
  • 2Let the paper carry the highlights rather than adding white.
  • 3A large empty area is what makes one colour feel deliberate.

Things to try

Red ink

the same scene in vermilion

Portrait

a face reduced to one ink and paper

Botanical

a single plant filling the sheet

With type space

a blank band left for a title

On grey stock

the ink printed on mid grey paper

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