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Pastel Cloud Painting

Illustration · Clouds · Pastel

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Figure among cloud hills
Wide sky
Square crop
Vertical study
Detail of the brushwork

Recipe

GPT Image

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Updated 9 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A soft painted landscape made almost entirely of cloud: rounded pastel forms in pink, pale blue and cream stacked into hills that merge into the sky, with a single small dark figure standing among them for scale. Visible gentle brushwork, soft edges everywhere, no hard lines and no strong contrast. Weightless and quiet, painted in gouache on board.

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Recommended settings

Size
1024 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Clouds as both sky and ground is the idea. Say they merge.
  • 2One small dark figure. Any more and the scale collapses.
  • 3Soft edges throughout. A single hard edge breaks the dream.

Things to try

Night version

the same forms in deep blue and violet

Sunset

coral and gold clouds with a longer shadow

No figure

pure cloud with nothing for scale

Sea below

a flat calm sea under the cloud hills

Denser

clouds packed until almost no sky remains

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