# Karesansui × Sumi-e — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=karesansui+sumi-e
# Karesansui carries the structure. Sumi-e appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Karesansui (Style, Muromachi period–) and its accent from Sumi-e (Technique, Tang dynasty–present). Structural cues: Water implied in raked gravel; Asymmetric stone groupings; A fixed viewpoint from the veranda; Radical subtraction. Accent cues, used sparingly: Ink gradation; Dry-brush scratch; Vast emptiness; The speed of one stroke. Composition: Fix one viewpoint from the veranda and group stones in odd numbers. Type and lettering: No signage, and no naming of what the stones stand for. Let one material quality come from the second style: Ink, unbleached paper, absorption, bleed. Mood: Calm, Trust, Luxury, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eee9dc, #24231f, #8c887c. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Karesansui: Adding more stones to create points of interest fills up the emptiness, kills the suggestion of water, and leaves nothing but a bed of gravel.
# - Sumi-e: Not a black brush texture dropped in. Design the stroke order and the meaning of the emptiness.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/karesansui/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/sumi-e/design.md