# Papel Picado × Pochoir — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=papel-picado+pochoir
# Papel Picado carries the structure. Pochoir 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 Papel Picado (Technique, 19th century–) and its accent from Pochoir (Technique, 1890s–1930s). Structural cues: Chisel-cut openwork; Tissue-paper banners; Light and wind passing through; Fiesta and Día de los Muertos. Accent cues, used sparingly: Sharp color planes; Stencil edges; Hand-color variance; Fashion plates. Composition: Repeat one design along the line, spaced so wind passes through. Type and lettering: Cut letters as voids, leaving thick bridges so the paper survives. Let one material quality come from the second style: Opaque spot colors layered per stencil; keep the small density shifts. Mood: Exhilaration, Intimacy, Nostalgia, Luxury. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eadcc5, #d16458, #527f83. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
# - Roughly 1871 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Papel Picado: Cutting away too much and leaving no bridges tears the sheet on the first windy day, and the decoration falls before the festival ends.
# - Pochoir: Not the same as flat vector fills. Design the stencil separations, printing order and hand variance.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/papel-picado/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/pochoir/design.md