Art Styles
A library of art styles for greeting cards, built with generative image models.
Twenty-two card fronts across seven art movements, two original styles made by combining movements that do not usually meet, one style built on a trend Gen Z is actually using, and a finished 5x7 birthday card. Each style is written as a reusable spec first, then generated against it, so a whole set stays on-style instead of drifting image to image. Every prompt sits under its image.
Range
Seven movements, each built around a real occasion someone would actually send. Painting, print, stop-motion, woodblock, modernist design, cel animation, and decorative illustration.
Starter Pack
Zero furniture, one plant, fully moved in.
Prompt
Loose watercolor painting of a tiny, nearly empty first apartment: a mattress on the floor, one proud houseplant, fairy lights taped to the wall, and a pizza box used as a table. Wet-on-wet washes, soft blooms, visible paper texture, lots of white paper. Palette of peach, sage, and warm grey. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Same Coffee, Different Time Zone
Long distance, but make it a morning ritual.
Prompt
Loose watercolor painting of two windowsills in two different cities, one sunny and one rainy, each with a cup of coffee, joined by a thin gold thread across the sky. Transparent layered washes, soft bleeding edges, granulation, white paper showing through. Palette of cobalt blue, rose, and soft gold. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Left On Read
The text was not ignored. It was buried under the laundry.
Prompt
Two-color risograph print in fluorescent pink and teal: a phone lying face down in a messy pile of laundry, with unread message bubbles floating out of it like ghosts. Flat bold shapes, visible grain, halftone shading, slight misregistration, off-white recycled paper. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Finals Era
You versus a mountain of books and eleven coffees. Money is on you.
Prompt
Two-color risograph print in bright red and blue: a student peeking out from under a mountain of textbooks, with a tower of empty coffee cups leaning beside them. Flat graphic shapes, heavy grain, halftone gradients, colors slightly misaligned so overlaps turn purple, cream zine paper. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
New Gremlin, Who Dis
Congratulations on the puppy. A moment of silence for the slipper.
Prompt
Stop-motion claymation scene: a tiny clay puppy sitting in the middle of a shredded slipper, looking extremely proud of itself. Handmade plasticine with fingerprints and tool marks, glossy bead eyes, soft studio lighting, gentle shadows, shallow depth of field. Pastel mint clay background. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Blanket Burrito
Soup, cat, zero obligations. Doctor’s orders.
Prompt
Stop-motion claymation scene filling the entire frame: a small clay person wrapped like a burrito in a striped rainbow blanket on a blue clay couch, with a bowl of soup, a tissue box, and a sleepy orange clay cat curled beside them. Plasticine texture, warm soft studio lighting, cozy miniature set, butter-yellow clay background. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Out of Office, Permanently
He quit. The wave is metaphorical. Barely.
Prompt
Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print: a tiny office worker in a tie joyfully surfing a huge stylized wave on an open laptop, papers flying behind them. Bold carved black outlines, flat color, patterned foam and clouds, wood grain and washi paper texture. Palette of indigo, vermilion, and cream. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
New City, Same You
The path is long. The suitcase has wheels.
Prompt
Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print: a small traveler pulling a rolling suitcase over a mountain pass, pine trees and stylized clouds around them, a tiny train crossing a bridge far below. Flat color, carved outlines, softly graded sky, paper texture. Palette of deep blue, soft green, and peach. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Cap Toss
Degree unlocked. The shapes are celebrating on your behalf.
Prompt
Bauhaus poster composition: a graduation cap made of a square and triangles flying upward on a strong diagonal, with a big circle sun and small geometric confetti. Primary red, yellow, and blue with black on off-white, flat color, strict grid, asymmetric balance, light print texture. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Two Circles, One Party
You said yes. The confetti concurs.
Prompt
Bauhaus composition: two bold interlocking circles as rings, balanced on a black line, with triangles and small squares bursting around them like confetti. Primary colors and black on warm off-white, crisp flat geometry, modernist balance, subtle paper texture. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
One Earbud Each
The highest known form of friendship.
Prompt
1990s hand-painted anime cel style: two original characters, best friends sitting on a train platform at golden hour sharing one pair of earbuds, power lines overhead. Cel-shaded figures, clean ink lines, lush painted background, soft film grain, warm orange and lavender sky, nostalgic mood. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
First Snow
Catching snowflakes like it is a full-time position.
Prompt
1990s hand-painted anime cel style: an original character in a huge scarf catching snowflakes on her tongue outside a glowing corner shop at night. Cel shading, clean line art, painted background, soft film grain, cool blue night with warm window light. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Patron Saint of Houseplants
For the mom whose other children are ferns.
Prompt
Art Nouveau illustration: a woman calmly watering an absurd jungle of houseplants that surrounds her completely, framed by an ornamental arch of whiplash vines and leaves. Elegant contour lines, flat muted color, decorative border, thin gold accents. Palette of olive, dusty rose, cream, and gold. Portrait 5:7 greeting card front. No text anywhere.
Quiet Company
For when there is nothing to say, and something still has to be sent.
Prompt
Art Nouveau illustration, portrait 5:7 vertical: a single white lily bending gently in soft rain, framed by a tall decorative border of flowing stems and circles. Graceful linework, soft sage, grey-blue, and ivory with thin gold lines, calm and quiet. No text anywhere.
Original style 01 · Ukiyo-e Chrome
Edo woodblock composition and carved black outlines, with every surface rendered in Y2K liquid chrome. Woodblock prints were cheap street-corner pop art, built to be read fast: flat color, hard outlines, one clear shape. That is exactly what a card has to do from arm’s length. Chrome is the opposite instinct, all surface and reflection, and it is the finish Gen Z keeps pulling back out of 2001. Together the composition stays readable and the surface feels new, so the card looks old and very online at the same time.
Chrome Wave
Big news deserves a big wave.
Prompt
Ukiyo-e Chrome style: a great curling wave with stylized foam curls and patterned clouds in the classic Japanese woodblock composition, with bold carved black outlines, but every surface rendered as glossy liquid chrome with iridescent pink and blue reflections. Soft lavender sky. Portrait 5:7.
Chrome Blossom
Petals, but iridescent.
Prompt
Same Ukiyo-e Chrome style. New subject: two cherry blossom branches crossing to form a heart, with chrome petals drifting down. Portrait 5:7.
Original style 02 · Baroque Riso
The spotlight, deep shadow, and theatrical posing of Baroque painting, printed as a grainy two-color riso zine. Baroque painters aimed a single light at one person and let the rest fall into shadow, which made ordinary moments look holy. Riso printing does the opposite job: cheap, grainy, slightly misaligned, impossible to take too seriously. Put together, a card can mean it and joke about it in the same breath. A promotion becomes an ascension. A breakup gets a tub of ice cream held like a relic. That is how people actually talk to each other.
Ascension (Promotion Edition)
Promoted. Ascended, really.
Prompt
Baroque Riso style: the dramatic spotlight, deep shadows, and theatrical poses of a Baroque oil painting, printed as a grainy two-color risograph in fluorescent pink and deep blue, with halftone shading, slight misregistration, and cream paper. Subject: an office worker lifted on the shoulders of coworkers like a heavenly ascension, holding a laptop up to a beam of light. Portrait 5:7.
Prescribed: One Tub
The group chat has already been notified.
Prompt
Same Baroque Riso style. New subject: one person collapsed dramatically across a velvet couch in a single beam of light, phone glowing on their chest, clutching an enormous tub of ice cream like a religious relic, spoon raised. Nobody else in frame. Portrait 5:7, artwork fills the entire frame, no paper border.
His Grace
One year in the household, already the most dignified resident.
Prompt
Same Baroque Riso style. New subject: a golden retriever posed like a noble in a formal portrait, wearing a ruffled collar and sitting on a velvet throne. Portrait 5:7.
Gen Z style · Jelly Candy
Squishy, translucent, glossy candy rendered in 3D. Jelly is everywhere right now: rubbery phone cases, jelly blush, gummy-looking jewelry, squishy toys running the ASMR side of TikTok and Pinterest. What all of it shares is touch. It looks like something you would press with your thumb. Cards are one of the last things people still buy to physically hand to someone, so a style built around wanting to squeeze it does something a flat illustration cannot. It also reads happy without reading childish, which is a narrow lane.
Certified Gummy
You did the thing. No notes.
Prompt
Glossy jelly candy 3D style: a squishy translucent gummy bear giving a big thumbs up, surrounded by little jelly stars and bubbles. Wobbly rubbery shapes, see-through candy colors with light shining through, sugar sparkle, soft pastel gradient background, a texture you want to squeeze. Portrait 5:7.
Melting, Respectfully
Crush status: liquefied.
Prompt
Same jelly candy style. New subject: a jiggly jelly heart melting slightly on a pink plate with a tiny spoon beside it. Portrait 5:7.
Down Bad, But Make It Cute
Rough day. The phone took it harder than you did.
Prompt
Same jelly candy style. New subject: a jelly phone with a crying face on its screen, wrapped in a gummy bandage. Portrait 5:7.
Production test · Birthday card
A finished 5x7 portrait front in the Baroque Riso style, with the copy rendered in-model. The same prompt is shown as prose and as the JSON spec used to generate sets.
Happy Birthday (dramatic, as always)
Birthday greeting card front, portrait 5:7. Style: Baroque Riso, the dramatic spotlight and deep shadows of a Baroque oil painting printed as a grainy two-color risograph in fluorescent pink and deep blue, with halftone shading, slight misregistration, and cream paper. Scene: a lavish birthday cake on a draped velvet table, one candle blazing like a holy spotlight, confetti falling in slow motion. At the top, elegant serif lettering in deep blue that reads exactly "Happy Birthday". At the bottom, small lettering that reads exactly "(dramatic, as always)". Keep all text and the cake well inside the edges.
{
"card": { "occasion": "birthday", "format": "5x7 portrait front" },
"style": "Baroque Riso",
"style_traits": ["Baroque spotlight and deep shadow", "two-color risograph",
"fluorescent pink + deep blue", "halftone", "misregistration", "cream paper"],
"scene": "lavish cake on draped velvet table, one candle blazing like a spotlight, slow confetti",
"text": [
{ "position": "top", "copy": "Happy Birthday", "type": "elegant serif, deep blue" },
{ "position": "bottom", "copy": "(dramatic, as always)", "type": "small serif" }
],
"safe_area": "all text and subject inside edges"
}How it is made
- Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) generates every image here.
- Claude breaks each movement down into its defining traits, which become a JSON style spec: medium, palette, line, texture, composition, and what to avoid.
- Each card is then a spec plus an occasion, so one style can carry a whole set without drifting, and a new occasion is a one-line change rather than a new prompt.
- Built with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini APIs, plus batch pipelines in Python and TypeScript.