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I reimagined a bronze museum sculpture as a cinematic winter artwork. Using FLORA, I transformed the original sculpture into an atmospheric snowy scene with gentle snowfall, drifting mist, cinematic lighting, and a subtle camera push-in while preserving the sculpture as the main visual focus. The goal was to create a premium, mysterious winter mood while keeping the original artwork recognizable.
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What happens after the portrait?
An animated extension of After the Portrait, my submission to the Recraft × Contra Archive Style Challenge.
Bronzino’s young man has always struck me as confident, slightly arrogant and unafraid of being seen. I imagined him stepping out of his formal portrait and into an evening of poetry, sharing, drinking and dancing with the boys—five centuries later.
This video adds movement to that world, keeping the painted surfaces, intimate atmosphere and blue glow of contemporary life.
Take a look at the full series and the idea behind it in my original submission:
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Mustard Seed Garden: Modern Cities
I discovered Wang Gai’s Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, a Qing-dynasty instructional book that taught painters how to study plants and landscapes through quiet woodblock plates.
I use Recraft and turn them into a Recraft Style.
The Style is minimalist, soft, and calm. I use Recraft V4 Style and generated some images. ✨
When I tested it on modern cities and glass buildings by the water, it looked unexpectedly beautiful.
Wang Gai could never have imagined his plates being used centuries later to draw modern cities.
So I created this series and applied the same drawings to real uses: postcards, a hotel room key, a café menu, a city guide, and a highway billboard.
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Made of Us & Line 26: two styles about the crowd of everyday life
We built two custom Recraft V4 Styles from public-domain works in museum and archive collections. Both look at modern life through the people in it: one builds objects out of tiny people, the other lays our daily habits into tile murals.
1. Made of Us
What if everything we love were made of all the people behind it?
References: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Dance Hall Bellevue (1909/1910) at the National Gallery of Art, and Utagawa Hiroshige's View of Fuji san from the Mountains in the Province of Izu (1858) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From Kirchner I took the bold Expressionist colour and the thick, outlined brushwork; from Hiroshige, the soft gradients and the calm, layered space. The idea of an object made of people is inspired by yose-e, the playful composite pictures of Edo period Japan. In the posters, everyday objects are built from hundreds of tiny people, one day and one week at a time; in the photographs, real crowds stand together to form the shapes of this month's trends, some of them animated.
2. Line 26
What if a city's metro network had a tile mosaic mural at every station, each one celebrating a habit of life in 2026?
References: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's Color Analysis from Arabian Illumination (Plate LXVII) from Color Problems (1902), Wassily Kandinsky's Painting with Green Center (1913) at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Theo van Doesburg's Contra Composition (1927–28). From Vanderpoel I took the strict grid of small colour squares and its red, blue, olive and cream palette; from Kandinsky, the expressive curves and layered colour; from van Doesburg, the flat planes and heavy black lines. The result is an imaginary metro network whose stations are named after things we do today, from Tap In and Matcha Line to Run Club and Padel Park, introduced by a street entrance, a network map and the next train arriving, with some murals animated.
Two styles, one subject: the crowd of everyday life, painted person by person and tile by tile.
🖼️ Walk through the full gallery → https://recraft.korsa.io A home for the two styles I made with Recraft. Made of Us: everyday objects built from hundreds of tiny people, painted in bold Expressionist colour. 18 posters in six rows, from morning to together. Line 26: a city...