Gouache Fruit Still Life Illustration
Stable DiffusionGouache Fruit Still Life Illustration is an SDXL prompt for a 4:5 painterly print. Three pears in a ceramic bowl with dried lavender and folded linen in opaque watercolour with visible thick paint texture in ochre, sage and burgundy produces a kitchen-art illustration with no text.
Last tested: August 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more watercolor prompts .
How to use this prompt
"Opaque watercolour with visible thick paint texture" is the rendering instruction that separates gouache from transparent watercolour — without it SDXL produces a soft wash. The three differently coloured pears — green, golden, russet — carry the composition; three identical pears produce a flat image. The dried lavender sprig adds organic detail without competing with the fruit. The folded linen cloth is the still-life convention that anchors the arrangement on a surface; without it the objects float. "Painterly brush strokes" keeps visible mark-making rather than smoothing to a digital finish. The warm ochre and sage palette is the rustic kitchen aesthetic; brighter colours would read as pop art. The negative prompt blocks photorealism and glossy rendering.
Variations to try
- Swap the pears for three apples — red, green and yellow — with a cinnamon stick and a tartan cloth
- Change the palette to cool blues and greys for a winter still life with pomegranates
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Gouache Fruit Still Life Illustration",
"prompt": "A gouache illustration of a still life arrangement, a ceramic bowl with three pears — one green, one golden, one russet — a sprig of dried lavender, and a folded linen cloth on a wooden table, opaque watercolour with visible thick paint texture, palette of warm ochre, sage, and muted burgundy on a soft beige ground, painterly brush strokes, no text, no letters",
"negative_prompt": "blurry, low quality, photorealistic, 3d render, neon, glossy, digital painting, smooth, gradient, text, watermark, border, frame, photograph",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "4:5",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 7,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"watercolor",
"botanical"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"illustration",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/gouache-fruit-still-life-illustration/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
