Create a classical oil painting portrait.
Subject: a young woman seated, from the knees up, painted in oils. Long dark wavy hair with a soft
fringe falling past her shoulders, a cream linen headscarf tied over the crown and knotted at the
back with the hair loose beneath it. Warm pale skin with flushed cheeks, defined dark brows, full
lips in a muted rose. Small gold hoop earrings. She wears a fitted cream dress printed with small
blue sprigged flowers, with a square neckline, short puffed sleeves gathered at the arm, a boned
bodice and a long full skirt.
Action: seated turned 20 degrees to her right, torso upright and shoulders open, her right arm
raised across her body holding a loose bunch of long-stemmed white roses up to her face, the blooms
brushing her cheek and lips, her left arm resting back and out of frame. Head tilted down and to
her left toward the flowers, eyes closed, lips softly closed, expression serene.
Setting: a plain warm cream plaster wall behind her, loosely painted with soft tonal variation and
no objects. A dark side table at the lower left holds a glass vase of pale pink roses with dark
foliage, and a dark surface runs beneath her.
Visual style: classical oil on canvas — soft blended brushwork, delicate modelling in the skin and
neck, looser broken strokes in the fabric, flowers and background, muted palette of creams, warm
greys, sage green and dusty pink, canvas weave faintly visible. Painted, never photographic.
Composition: vertical frame, subject centred and slightly right, head in the upper third, the raised
bouquet of roses filling the upper left, the vase and table cropped at the lower left corner, the
skirt filling the lower half of frame.
Lighting: soft diffused light from the front left, gentle modelling across the face, neck and chest,
no hard shadow edges anywhere, warm reflected light lifting the shadow side.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never render photoreal, three-dimensional or digitally smooth, never blend the
brushwork into an airbrushed finish, never remove the canvas texture, never open the eyes, never
lower the raised arm or move the flowers from her face, never smile or part the lips, never brighten
or saturate the muted palette, never add props, jewellery beyond the earrings, or a second figure,
never render fine detail in the background.
Output: 3:4 vertical.
