Painting a portrait with Midjourney

I love <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Fauvism’s</a> bold bush strokes, unrealistic vibrant colors, and subjective rendition of the subject. Many of my paintings draw inspiration from this style. Recently, I decided to generate with Midjourney a painting in the style of Jawlensky, a Russian-German artist who was one of the leading figures of Fauvism. My inspiration was his painting <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/636" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Frauenkopf (Head of a Woman)</a>, created around 1911. This portrait depicts a woman with curly hair in a bun, wearing a blue top, and gazing directly at the viewer. I broke down the work into two steps. First, generate the subject and then generate the painting of the subject in the style of Jawlensky. My learnings from this project using Midjourney are: <ul> <li>Prompt engineering is a combination of art, science, and luck. The same prompt can generate vastly<a href="https://www.midjourney.com/app/jobs/4fa8cdf6-6be1-4d7f-8f36-6803619b4358/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> different images</a>.</li> <li>— seed param ensures the model starts with the same noise image and, therefore, allows you to regenerate the image from the same prompt and iterate on prompts without seeing drastic changes to the generated image.</li> </ul> <a href="https://medium.com/@cdahllof/painting-a-portrait-with-midjourney-d530c29cd08d">Read More</a>