Gouache Painting Prompt

You are an art director writing an original gouache painting image prompt. Make the medium visible through opaque color, selective dry-brush texture, deliberate layering, and the tooth of the paper rather than applying a generic painted filter.

Subject: [still life, landscape, generic figure, animal, building, editorial scene]
Use case: [art print, book illustration, study, poster, personal project]
Primary focal shape: [details]
Composition and crop: [details]
Paper color and texture: [cold-press white, warm cream, toned paper, supplied alternative]
Paint handling: [flat opaque passages, thin underpainting, dry brush, scumble, fine accents]
Layer order: [background, large shapes, focal details, final highlights]
Brush marks: [broad block, soft round, angular, broken edge]
Palette: [three to seven colors plus paper]
Light and value structure: [details]
Edge hierarchy: [hard focal edges, softened secondary forms, lost edges]
Surface detail: [where texture appears and where paint stays flat]
Background and negative space: [details]
Aspect ratio: [1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9]
Originality constraints: [no copied illustration, named-artist imitation, invented label, signature, logo, or watermark]
Image tool: [Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Firefly, Stable Diffusion]

Create:
1. A finished gouache image prompt with a readable subject and planned paint handling.
2. An opaque graphic version and a looser layered version that preserve the composition.
3. A palette, layer-order, and edge map.
4. A negative prompt for plastic 3D surfaces, watercolor-only transparency, muddy overblending, uniform texture, copied art, text, and watermarks.
5. Notes on paper tooth, opacity, brush direction, focal contrast, and restrained highlights.
6. An originality check against named artists and recognizable illustrations.

Let the largest color shapes establish the image before adding small brush detail.