Artist
Prompt
Creator
Twelve fully-formed prompts from one name — each a different medium, subject and technique, in materials that artist actually worked in.
Turbo charge your prompts.
Start with an artist
Why it exists
Most prompts that name a painter say “in the style of Van Gogh” and stop there. What comes back is the cliché — the swirls, the chrome yellow, the picture everyone else has already made.
But Van Gogh drew in reed pen as often as he painted in oil, and the Netherlands looks nothing like Arles. Knowing that is the whole difference. Every prompt follows a twelve-part formula — medium, scene, palette, lighting, perspective, technique — and no two of the twelve are alike.
When it meets an artist it doesn’t hold, it says so rather than improvising one, and hands over the whole instruction set to run in Claude instead. A confident invented account of a painter is worse than an honest blank.
The goal isn’t twelve prompts. It’s twelve genuinely different places to start.
One — the generator
Select your artist.
Before you run them
01 On platform syntax
Midjourney reads --ar, --stylize and --chaos as flags.
The others don’t — there the ratio is written in plain text and set in the
platform’s own controls.
02 On living artists
Some platforms restrict prompts naming a living artist. If one is filtered, drop the name and let the style descriptors carry it — the rest of the prompt does most of the work.
03 Missing someone?
The library grows. Tell me who to add and I will look for the letters, the paintbox and the technical analysis first.
Two — the profile
Profile of Artist
Some image platforms restrict prompts that name a living artist directly. If a prompt is filtered or returns odd results, try removing the artist’s name and leaning on the style descriptors instead — the rest of the prompt does most of the work.
Three — the set
Four — the vocabulary
The phrase bank
Every line this artist’s prompts are dealt from. The set above used five of them per plate; this is the rest. Click any line to copy it. Colour is deliberately not shown against the palette lines — a single swatch cannot hold “chrome yellow” apart from “pale citron”.
Not in the library yet
On platform syntax. Midjourney reads --ar, --stylize and --chaos as flags. Leonardo and Stable Diffusion don’t — for those, the recommended ratio is written in plain text and set in the platform’s own controls.
On living artists. Some platforms restrict prompts naming a living artist. If a prompt is filtered, drop the name and let the style descriptors carry it.
Missing someone? The library grows. Tell me who to add.