Splashed Malachite Ink
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Ink Wash Painting. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
How this one was made: Splashed Malachite Ink — Zhang Daqian's poured colour, Xu Beihong's loaded stroke, and raw xuan paper
The blend
The prompt combines 3 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Zhang Daqian — Zhang's splashed-colour technique creates pooled washes of malachite, azurite and cinnabar bleeding wet-into-wet into soft gradients.
- Xu Beihong — Xu's calligraphic brushwork produces volume from a few loaded strokes of dense carbon ink with dry-brush streaks at trailing edges.
- Ink and mineral pigment on raw xuan paper — The absorbent paper infuses feathered edges and fibrous grain.
The fusion manifests as scattered ink flecks, fine line only for small detail, and bare paper left as light, transforming any subject through economy of mark.
On 4 models
The same prompt and the same subject, rendered by different image models — so the differences are the model, not the prompt.
The prompt
Original
Zhang Daqian + Xu Beihong + ink and mineral pigment on raw xuan paper, where Zhang's splashed-colour technique creates pooled washes of malachite, azurite and cinnabar bleeding wet-into-wet into soft gradients, and Xu's calligraphic brushwork produces volume from a few loaded strokes of dense carbon ink with dry-brush streaks at trailing edges, and the absorbent paper infuses feathered edges and fibrous grain. The fusion manifests as scattered ink flecks, fine line only for small detail, and bare paper left as light, transforming any subject through economy of mark.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Model-neutral
The same look with artist names and copyrighted references removed — for models that refuse them.
Chinese splashed-colour painting + modern Chinese academic ink painting + ink and mineral pigment on raw xuan paper, where the splashed-colour technique creates pooled washes of malachite, azurite and cinnabar bleeding wet-into-wet into soft gradients, and calligraphic brushwork produces volume from a few loaded strokes of dense carbon ink with dry-brush streaks at trailing edges, and the absorbent paper infuses feathered edges and fibrous grain. The fusion manifests as scattered ink flecks, fine line only for small detail, and bare paper left as light, transforming any subject through economy of mark.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Effect only
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Pooled washes of malachite, azurite and cinnabar bleed wet-into-wet into soft gradients, while a few loaded strokes of dense carbon ink build volume, their trailing edges breaking into dry-brush streaks. The unsized absorbent paper pulls feathered edges and a fibrous grain into every mark. Scattered ink flecks sit beside fine line reserved for small detail, and bare paper holds the light, so each subject resolves through economy of mark.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Using it
- Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
- The original names artists. Some hosted models refuse that or quietly render around it — on those, use the model-neutral version, which describes the same handling without the names.
- The effect-only version drops the recipe altogether and describes only what the style does to a surface. Use it to mix this look into another style, or when you want nothing traceable to a source.
- Every sample here was rendered against the same short subject — Quiet streets whisper / Her footsteps echo softly / Sunlight paints her path — so it shows the style, not a lucky subject.
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