20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Wall Art that Sells! (Part 2)
Comes with Visual Examples and Tips for Creating Stunning Mockups for Your Masterpiece
Looking for a way to earn passive income with generative AI art? Look no further! With my favorite AI Art platform Midjourney, you can create unique and stunning wall art that stands out and sells!
In Part 1, I talked about various art genres ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Futuristic and Renaissance.
Today, I’ve put together a fantastic list of more than 20 art mediums for you to experiment with. I will also share some useful tips on creating eye-catching mockups that will make your artwork stand out from the rest.
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 styles together with my personal tips and preferences to help you create wonderful art.
You’ll have the freedom to explore different aesthetics and add your personal touch. Stay till the end for a bonus tip that boosts your sale! Let’s get started!
1. Alcohol Ink Paint
Alcohol ink paint style is a painting technique that uses alcohol-based inks to create vibrant and colorful designs.
📌 The inks are translucent and can be layered to achieve depth and complexity.
Prompt: Alcohol ink painting of a parrot, green, color-gel, splashing art, abstract, pastel tones with golden cracks
2. Acrylic Paint
Versatile paint with vibrant colors. It can be used to create a variety of artworks, from bold and abstract pieces to detailed and realistic landscapes.
📌 With acrylic paint, you can achieve a high level of detail and texture
Prompt: Acrylic Paint, spring blossom
Besides picking an art medium, it’s also a good idea you will want to specify a color. Beside the normal red or blue or yellow color, mixing and matching or using a color palette is always a good idea:
- Complimentary Color
- Gradient Color
- Pastel Color Palette
- Summer Color Palette
- Festive Color Palette (Christmas, Halloween, Easter)
3. Boho Watercolor
BohoWatercolor Art is a style of painting that combines the free-spirited and eclectic elements of bohemian style with the fluid and vibrant qualities of watercolor painting.
📌 This art medium is great for capturing the essence of a moment or emotion through the use of watercolor paints
Prompt: Boho watercolor of a two storey old bookstore, pastel color palette, blue and pink gradient, award winning watercolor, vintage, splashing,
4. Chalk
Chalk art, also known as chalk drawing or sidewalk art, is a form of temporary visual art created using chalk as the medium.
📌 It usually produces powdery lines and tones.
Prompt: Chalk art, a wolf and mountain, dark sky-blue, light navy and violet
5. Charcoal
Charcoal art is a form of drawing or painting that uses charcoal as the primary medium. It can create a range of tonal values and can be used to create both realistic and expressive artworks.
📌 Charcoal creates bold, dark lines and shading making it ideal for expressive drawings and dramatic contrasts.
Prompt: Charcoal drawing, powderly, a bird
6. Encaustic Painting
Encaustic paint is created by melting beeswax and then combining it with dry pigments to achieve the desired colors. It’s known for its ability to capture light in a captivating way, resulting in visually engaging artwork.
📌 Encaustic painting offers unique qualities such as depth, translucency, and a rich surface texture.
Prompt: Encaustic Painting, a street lamp in paris stree outside a bookstore, in spring
7. Gouache Art
Opaque watercolors with a matte finish.
📌 This style is suitable for detailed illustrations and decorative arts.
Prompt: Gouache art, illustration of a bottle of purfume, honey, earl grey, flowers, dreamy pastel color palette , soft lighting
8. Graphite Pencils
Combines text and visuals to convey messages; includes posters, logos, and digital designs.
📌 If you want to convey a powerful message, consider using this style for your project. Typically, black and white colors create a strong impact.
Prompt: Graphite pencils art style, a butterfly in the hourglass
9. Ink Wash Painting
It emphasizes the beauty of brushwork and the use of shades and tones to create a sense of depth and space.
📌 It is ideal to create serene and harmonious artwork.
Prompt: Ink wash painting, asnake, surrounded by flowers, dark grey and light emerald
10. Mosiac Art
Assembles small pieces of materials (e.g., glass, stone) into intricate patterns and images.
📌 Great for artwork with more colors to create stunning patterns
Prompt: Mosiac art, a bunny and flowers around, dreamy fantasy, breathtaking
11. Mural Painting
Mural Painting is a form of public art that involves painting large-scale images or designs onto walls or other large surfaces.
📌 Great for creating large-scale paintings on walls or other surfaces.
Prompt: Mural painting of a furry head of a tiger, in white and pink floral bouquet, soft lighting, hyper-realistic animal illustrations, soft gradient color, artgerm
12. Oil Painting
Oil painting is a popular art style that involves using oil-based paints on a canvas. It is known for its rich, vibrant colors and blending capabilities.
📌 Oil painting is common for creating detailed and realistic works of art which is great for beautiful landscape or travel artwork
Prompt: Oil painting of Venice, dreamy pastel color palette, blue and pink, vintage
13. Paper-Marbling
Paper marbling is a traditional art form that involves floating layers of colored ink on water to create intricate designs on paper.
📌 This kind of artwork has a dreamy, ethereal quality and can be used for various applications, including book covers, stationery, and wall art.
Prompt: Paper-Marbling, flowers and birds
14. Pastels
Pastels are a type of art medium that consists of colored pigment in a stick form.
📌 It is great to create a soft, velvety texture on paper.
Prompt: Pastel artwork, Dreamy landscapes where ephemeral clouds, mixed emotions, twisting mind of idea
15. Splashing Dust
Splashing Dust art is a form of calligraphy that involves flicking ink onto paper.
📌 It is great to create dynamic and expressive abstract compositions
Prompt: Splashing dust art, pink dust, elephant
Splashing Dust is also applicable for food photography to stimulate appetite, showcase richness and engage the viewer.
16. Stained Glass
Colored glass pieces assembled into intricate designs; illuminated by light.
📌 Great for creating vivid and luminous art.
Prompt: Stained glass art work, a bunny, flowers, a beautiful lady holding apples
17. Textile Art
Textile art incorporates fabrics, fibers, and thread into visual art pieces; including quilting, embroidery, and weaving.
📌 If you want to create a 3D-like image, you must try this technique. It gives the illusion that you can actually feel the texture.
Prompt: Textile Art, a mixture of a flowers and bird cage ,leaves surrounding
18. Tempera Painting
Tempera painting is a versatile art style that involves using pigments mixed with a binder, typically egg yolk or a synthetic alternative, to create vibrant and long-lasting paintings.
📌 This art style is ideal for adding dynamics to your art piece.
Prompt: Tempera Painting of an owl, with flowers wreaths around, dreamy pastel color palette, gradient
19. Vintage Watercolor
“Vintage watercolor style” typically refers to an artistic approach that evokes the aesthetics of traditional watercolor paintings from earlier eras.
📌 This style often combines soft, muted colors, delicate brushwork, and a sense of nostalgia.
Prompt: Vintage watercolor, a bunny plating violin,watercolor,influenced by the fantasy novels
20. Warli Painting
Warli Painting is a tribal art form that originated in Maharashtra, India. It is characterized by simple geometric shapes like circles, triangles, and squares, and the use of white pigment on a red ochre background.
Prompt: Warli Painting, woods and animals
21. Wood Burning Art
Wood-burning art is a unique and creative form of art that involves using heat to burn designs into wood.
📌 It can create intricate and detailed patterns. It’s great to simply add a subject after the style
Prompt: Wood Burning artwork of a lion
🎨 Bonus Tip: Creating Mock-up
It’s time to create the mockup. Once you have created an art piece that you are happy with, it is important to make a mockup to show our audience for promotion.
This can be done quickly and easily using 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 the hotel lobby”
And you’ll achieve an impressive mockup like this one.
Here is a step-by-step guide to create amazing mockup
Here are some amazing prompts for professional mockups for inspiration!
Extra: Consistent Character
In response to my previous post about creating a consistent character with Midjourney, I’ve received questions asking if Niji mode is the only option. The normal Midjourney mode can also be used, along with different art styles, as shown below.
Prompt: Vintage watercolor, a bunny with multiple poses, facial expressions, plain background — ar 16:9
In addition, the art styles mentioned in this article can be utilized to create graphic novels.
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Art Genre
If you have missed Part 1 with 20 Art Genres, be sure to check that out:
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