# Cameo Glass × Stained Glass — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cameo-glass+stained-glass
# Cameo Glass carries the structure and Stained Glass appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Cameo Glass (technique, Roman era–) and their accent from Stained Glass (technique, medieval–present).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Cameo Glass exists for: building an image out of two stacked surfaces, where the edge is carried by a step and its shadow instead of a drawn line, or working in blind emboss or foil, where nothing is added in colour and the whole image has to come from difference in thickness. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Cameo Glass

- A pale image standing up in relief over a darker ground
- Where the cut runs deep the ground colour shows through and the image sinks; only the thickest passages go fully opaque
- The ground is one even colour and all the tonal range sits in the image
- Edges are steps rather than drawn lines, so raking light throws a shadow off the image itself

Composition: A wide field of one dark colour with a single pale image on it. Keep the ground plain and put nothing between the two. Type and lettering: Cut the lettering out of the same layer as the image. Let the stroke width be a carving width, and avoid hairline faces.

## Accent comes from Stained Glass, used sparingly

- Lead contours
- Transmitted color
- Geometric division
- Jewel tones

Let one material quality come from it: Deep red, blue, gold, transmitted light, black joints.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #EDE7DA, carry the structure in #7C89A8 and #1C2B5A, and let a single accent come from #a32e35. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: technique, luxury, calm, exhilaration.

## Where they fight

- Cameo Glass and Stained Glass are techniques rather than looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
- Cameo Glass and Stained Glass stand roughly 1027 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

## What goes wrong

- Cameo Glass: Copying only the light and dark contrast as two flat fills loses the translucent middle that depth of cut produces, and the result reads as cut paper.
- Stained Glass: Not just translucent gradients. Design the structural lines that carry the color fields.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cameo-glass/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/stained-glass/design.md