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The consistency in lighting and skin tone across all four is what sells it, that's usually where Midjourney sets fall apart. Roughly how many generations does a set like this take before you get four that actually feel like the same shoot?
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What do you get when you combine photography and painting?
This weekend I used Midjourney to explore a visual direction that blends painted flowers into a photorealistic scene, bringing the two mediums together into something slightly surreal.
Using the new v8.2 Edit Model with personalization, it understood the prompt well, even though I only attached the subject as a reference.
Prompt is included in the comments.
What do you think of this style?
Really cool direction! Blending painted textures into a realistic garden scene works so well. Looks great!
NATURE, ARCHIVED
What if the painting outlived the landscape?
The project was inspired by John Ruskin’s The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (ca. 1866), from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection. Ruskin’s watercolor captures the Alpine landscape through layers of light, shadow, distant peaks, and atmospheric haze.
Before generating, I mapped the idea into six scenes, each supporting a different part of the story. In FLORA, I worked iteratevly , and eplored several AI models, refining references, motion, scale, and composition to preserve photographic realism and visual consistency.
Rather than remaking the painting, I imagined a future in which Ruskin’s work is no longer simply an image of a place. It has become an archive of something humanity can no longer encounter in the physical world.
The museum preserves the artwork, but also reconstructs the world contained within it: its scale, atmosphere, movement, and sense of life. The painting becomes a portal between two realities — a record of what once existed and a way for future generations to experience what has been lost.
The artwork survived. The landscape didn’t.
For us today, the painting is a representation of nature.
For people of the future, it is nature.
Created in @ for the #FLORAMuseum challenge.
🖼️ Original artwork: John Ruskin — The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, ca. 1866
🎨 Project link Nature, Archived
Inspiring:
Meet NOVA — a limited capsule collection of padel rackets inspired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection.
Instead of keeping centuries of art locked behind glass, I wanted to bring these masterpieces directly into play. Padel is dynamic, fast, and high-impact. By pairing ancient craftsmanship with performance carbon fiber, each racket becomes a true material rebirth — not just a print on a frame.
Video Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWdmlPqhR0
FLORA Canvas: https://app.flora.ai/join-project/b0175763-2c3f-4e95-9763-dfc1f0f18ba1
Post on X: https://x.com/yurii_oleskiv/status/2096981092519551428
Featured artifacts from The Met Archive:
Length of painted silk: 18th-century French textile with floral bouquets on turquoise silk.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/239345
Tunic: 15th–16th century Incan royal garment with iconic red-and-black checkerboard weave.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/751901
Glass hexagonal amphoriskos: 1st-century Roman mold-blown cobalt glass vessel.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245376
Vase (Grueby Pottery): Early 20th-century Arts and Crafts vessel with matte cucumber-green glaze.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/19839
Guitar: Late 17th-century European baroque instrument inlaid with ivory and tortoiseshell.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503932
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll: 15th-century Joseon porcelain decorated in cobalt blue.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37557
"Wild Rose" Lily vase: Late 19th-century Favrile blown glass designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21617
Under the Wave off Kanagawa: Iconic c. 1830–32 color woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39799
Sweetmeat dish: 17th-century European segmented ceramic serving platter with radial patterns.
The Met Archive - https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200731
Everything was conceived, iterated, and directed inside FLORA. The node-based canvas made it effortless to link raw archival references, dial in textures, and build cinematic promo renders & videos in one workspace.
A limited series built for the court today... that might just end up back behind the museum glass a century from now.
Created for the challenge by @FLORA x @Contra HQ . #FLORAMuseum #Contra
I'm impressed by your work! These padel rackets are insane, and the way you showed them are blowing my mind!