Create an oil painting portrait.
Subject: a young woman from the collarbone up, painted in oils. Dark hair worn up in a loose knot
with a soft fringe falling across the forehead and loose strands escaping at the temples and nape.
Warm olive skin with strongly flushed cheeks, defined dark brows, long lashes, full lips in a
muted rose, softly modelled features. Thick gold hoop earrings and a fine gold chain necklace with
a small heart pendant. She wears a black top with thin straps and a soft scooped neckline.
Action: head turned 30 degrees to her left in three-quarter view, chin slightly lifted, eyes cast
down and to her left away from the lens, lips closed, expression calm and distant.
Setting: a broad tree trunk rising close behind her on the right in ochre and brown strokes,
dappled green and golden foliage on the left with patches of pale blue sky breaking through, all
loosely painted with no fine detail.
Visual style: oil on canvas — visible impasto brushstrokes, thick loaded paint catching the
highlights on the cheekbone, nose and shoulder, soft blended transitions across the skin, loose
broken colour in the background, warm earthy palette of ochres, greens and deep browns, canvas
weave showing through in places. Painted, never photographic.
Composition: vertical frame, subject centred and slightly left, head filling the upper two-thirds
of frame, cropped at the collarbone, the tree trunk running vertically behind her right shoulder
and the foliage filling the upper left.
Lighting: warm dappled daylight from the front left, soft modelling across the cheek and jaw, warm
reflected light lifting the shadow side, no hard shadow edges anywhere.
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 or visible strokes, never
turn the eyes to the lens, never smile or part the lips, never crop below the collarbone, never add
props, jewellery beyond that described, or a second figure, never cool or desaturate the warm
palette, never render fine detail in the background.
Output: 9:16 vertical.
