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20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells!

Christie C.
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9 min readAug 2, 2023

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Are you interested in generating passive income through generative AI art? Consider creating unique wall art with Midjourney.

AI art tools are revolutionizing the way creators create custom designs for their businesses. With tools like Midjourney, you can quickly generate arts with styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Futuristic and Renaissance, adding your own fresh creativity.

Today, let me present you with a list of 20+ styles together with tips for creating stunning mockups to make your work stand out of the crowd!

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells!

If you are just starting, I know it’s challenging to craft the perfect prompt. So, here is a guide to get you started

The more comprehensive the prompt, the more precision, and accuracy it is for Midjourney to deliver.

Today, I have prepared 20+ fantastic prompts, with various art style together with my personal tips and preferences to help you create wonderful art.

Stay till the end for a bonus tip that boosts your sale! Let’s get started!

1. Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism employs vigorous brushstrokes and dripping paint to express emotions and spontaneity.

📌 Simply incorporating the term “abstract expressionism” can result in astonishing paintings. It is recommended to use a single subject.

Prompt: A fox, abstract expressionism

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, abstract expressionism

2. Art Deco

Art Deco is characterized by a modern and geometric aesthetic. It’s known for its bold shapes, vibrant colors, and luxurious materials.

📌 It is great to include line and symmetry for a sleek and modern look when playing with the style of art deco.

Prompt: Art deco, isometric illustration of a bottle of perfume, honey, earl grey, flowers, dreamy pastel color palette, soft lighting, splashing

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells!, art deco

3. Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau showcased intricate designs, influenced by nature, with floral, plant, and animal themes. The style emphasized curved lines and asymmetry, evoking graceful movement.

📌Art Nouveau is great for people and flowers.

Prompt: Art nouveau, a beautiful lady holding an apple, fantasy, breathtaking

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Art Nouveau

4. Baroque

Baroque art was characterized by rich colors, detailed textures, and extravagant compositions. It aimed to evoke strong emotions.

📌 This is great to create a sense of awe, drama or motion.

Prompt: Baroque art style, chaos of musical instruments

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Baroque

5. Bohemianism

Bohemian style often embraces diverse elements, including vivid colors, exaggerated forms, and a spontaneous vibe.

📌 The art style is amazing for creating a vibrant and diverse range of artistic expressions.

Prompt: Bohemianism illustration of a mixture of a flowers and bird cage, leaves surrounding

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Bohe

6. Expressionism

Expressionism is characterized by the use of bold colors, exaggerated forms, and emotional intensity to express the artist’s inner feelings.

📌Expressionism focuses on expressing emotions rather than accurate depictions of the physical world, making it ideal for experimenting with ordinary objects.

Prompt: Expressionism, clock::wise

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, expressionism

7. Fauvism

Fauvism features vibrant and bold colors and was used non-representationally.

📌 Fauvism is ideal for adding energy and intensity to your art piece.

Prompt: Fauvism, a roller-coaster

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, fauvism

8. Futuristic Art

Futuristic art is characterized by bold and innovative forms that challenge traditional concepts of art.

📌 The bold style is great to envision a future society or technological advancements.

Prompt: Futuristic art painting, emerging technology, advanced color scheme

20 Midjourney Art Prompts, Futuristic art, digital painting, emerging technology, advanced color scheme

9. Geometric Art

Geometric art utilizes simple shapes and patterns in a precise and harmonious manner. Emphasizing clean lines, symmetrical compositions, and bold colors, it creates visually striking and abstract representations.

📌I enjoy creating animals in a geometric art style. Combining multiple colors with gradients yields excellent outcomes.

Geometric style is also great for designing logo with Midjourney.

Prompt: Geometric shape of a parrot, gradient color, light pink and amber , soft pastel color, minimal gradient background

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, geometrical art

10. Impressionism

Impressionism emphasizes capturing visual impressions of scenes rather than precise details. Artists use loose brushstrokes and vibrant colors to convey atmosphere and light.

📌 Impressionist artworks often depicted everyday scenes.

Prompt: Impressionism, a street lamp beside a tree, in spring

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, impressionism

11. Neon Art

Neon art is a vibrant and unique form that uses neon lights as its primary medium, featuring bright colors and a mesmerizing glow.

📌 It brings a futuristic and abnormal vibe to your art piece.

Prompt: Neon Art, a huge octopus in space

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, neon art

12. Pop Art

Pop Art emerged as a response to consumer culture, critiquing the art world. It employs collage, repetition, and vibrant colors to capture the energy of the modern world.

📌 Pop art is great for crafting everyday objects and scenes, creating a vibrant and colorful look.

Prompt: pop art, collage of New York City landmark

20+ Incredible Midjourney Art Style Prompts that sells, pop art collage

13. Postminimalism

It combines aspects of minimalism while also introducing a more expressive and subjective approach to artistic expression.

📌 Like Abstract Expressionism, using a single subject is great and lets Midjourney do the creative work. Just keep it simple!

Prompt: Postminimalism, an owl

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, postminimalism

14. Realism

Depicting the world objectively, Realism portrays reality without emotional distortion.

📌 Be creative with your prompts.

Prompt: Realism painting, the realm of reality

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, realism

15. Renaissance

Renaissance art focuses on a more naturalistic and humanistic style. Artists emphasized realism and human beauty and explored perspective, light, and anatomy.

📌 Great for romance and beauty

Prompt: Renaissance style, illustration of a mixture of a rose and a piano, flowers and musical notes surrounding

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Renaissance

16. Rococo

Rococo art features intricate designs, delicate ornamentation, and pastel colors. It embodies opulence and the pursuit of pleasure.

📌 This is amazing in portraying scenes of aristocratic life with lightheartedness and playfulness.

Prompt: Rococo art style painting, flowers, leaves, bunny

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Rococo Art Style

17. Romanticism

Romanticism emphasizes emotion and the sublime with an expression of profound feelings and intense experiences.

📌 This style is great to evoke intense emotions through nature and the sublime, exploring emotions and life’s mysteries.

Prompt: Romanticism art style painting, birds and flowers

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells!

18. Surrealism

Surrealism is known for its dreamlike and bizarre imagery, blending unexpected and irrational elements to explore the unconscious mind and challenge societal norms.

📌 You can also try to incorporate the “ — weird” and “ — s” parameters which make it even more unusual.

Prompt: Surrealism, a horse in Alice in wonderland

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Surrealisim

19. Symbolism

Symbolism is an art style reacting against naturalism, using symbols to convey inner thoughts and emotions.

📌Since symbolism art often uses objects and figures as symbols for abstract ideas, I recommended trying abstract ideas or emotions.

Prompt: Symbolism art style, empty

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, symbolism

20. Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” captures everyday life and popular culture with a focus on transient and ephemeral aspects.

Prompt: Ukiyo-e art style, a whale in the wave

20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells, Ukiyo-e syle

🎨 Bonus Tip: Creating Mock-up

Time to create the mockup. After creating an art piece that you are satisfied with, it’s important to create a mockup to showcase to our audience for promotion.

And that’s a quick and easy way to do thanks to the new “ zoom-out” feature of Midjourney V5.2.

Let’s take one art from above as an example.

Utilize Custom Zoom out to generate a mockup by modifying the prompt “Framed wall art sitting in the middle of a cozy living room” and you’ll achieve an impressive mockup like this one.

20 Best Midjourney Art Prompts that Sells, Wall Art Frame Mockup
Custom Prompt: Framed wall art sitting in the middle of a cozy living room — ar 1:1 — zoom 2

Here are some amazing prompts for professional mockups for inspiration!

Selling Your Designs Through Print-on-Demand Services

Selling your designs online can be difficult, but print-on-demand services like Printful and Printify provide an easy way to create and sell custom printed products without investing in expensive equipment or materials.

With their integration, you can quickly upload your designs to Etsy and start earning passive income!

🌟 Selling Tips

For successful AI artwork sales, consider these helpful tips:

  1. Research your market
  2. Select the suitable platform
  3. Optimize for search engines
  4. Connect with potential buyers
  5. Ensure legal compliance

🎨 Final Words: Be Patient & Creative

Instant success shouldn’t be expected. It may take a day, a month, or longer to make your first sale. Persistence and patience are crucial for success.

With creativity and effort, you can apply these methods to sell various products, from phone cases to pillows, tote bags, and wall art.

Hi👋 I am Christie — an AI Art Creator and Educator😊

I hope you found value in this article on tapping into AI or unlimited creativity. If you’re craving more insider tips, prompts and tricks for tools like Midjourney, I’d love for you to join me on this journey.

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Let’s explore the limitless possibilities of AI together. The future awaits. Let’s seize it! 🚀

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Christie C.
Christie C.

Written by Christie C.

🎨 AI artist teaching 10,000+ creators to master AI tools for design 👉🏻 https://bit.ly/mastermidjourney

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