Zhang Daqian Splashed Color (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Zhang Daqian's pocai splashed-color landscapes, dense mineral blue and malachite green flowing across dark ink foundations.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a splashed-color ink painting in the visual register of Zhang Daqian's later pocai landscapes. Preserve the source's exact subject, pose, and spatial organization. Establish its main forms with broad carbon-ink washes on damp xuan paper, allowing soft pools to settle at edges. Pour diluted mineral azurite blue and malachite green into selected still-wet regions so pigment branches across the fibers and leaves grainy deposits where water recedes. Keep dark ink contours visible through the translucent color, then add a few drier, decisive marks to recover the source's key features. The palette is deep lapislike blue, emerald green, smoky black, and warm paper cream, with rare cool white gaps of bare sheet. No uniform digital gradient: each color boundary should follow gravity, capillary drift, and uneven absorption. Hold the deepest contrast around the original focal form; let secondary areas break into lighter, wandering washes without moving or replacing them. At small size the composition must read as large, coherent shapes rather than random paint clouds. Color should feel luminous but weighty, with raw edges and sediment visible across the paper surface. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
The painter can allow liquid color to misbehave without surrendering composition. The result makes control and chance collaborators instead of rivals.
Tuning knobs
- Pigment: `azurite and malachite pools` (signature) vs `mostly blue` vs `mostly green`
- Ground: `dark ink under transparent color` (signature) vs `light gray underwash` vs `bare paper base`
- Edge: `granular mineral tide lines` (signature) vs `diffuse wet bleed` vs `hard dry boundary`
- Coverage: `color across selected masses` (signature) vs `one focal splash` vs `broad near-total wash`
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