Lingnan Mist Washed Garden (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Lingnan school's early modern synthesis of observed light, ink outline, and translucent color washes over botanical and architectural forms.

The prompt
Re-render this image as an early modern Lingnan school ink-and-color painting, recalling the light-sensitive garden studies of Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng without introducing any new subject. Preserve every major source form in place. Describe surfaces first with fine but varied ink lines, then float translucent watercolorlike washes over damp xuan paper so soft light crosses the original forms. Use muted jade, soft ocher, smoke gray, and warm ivory, anchored by a few dark carbon-ink contours. Distinguish a visible near edge from an atmospheric far edge: do not blur the entire image into fog. A brush carrying two different dilutions should leave a darker rim at one side of a form and a barely stained interior at the other. Allow small blooms where water meets an almost-dry wash, but keep botanical, architectural, or human details recognizable if they exist in the source. Translate the Lingnan taste for observed detail into the source's own material, rather than adding flowers, pavilions, or scenery. Give the composition a humid, sunlit softness, with clean large shapes and enough contrast to read at thumbnail size. Paper fibers and transparent layering must remain visible instead of becoming glossy digital paint. 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
Observed light and inherited brush grammar do not have to cancel one another. Their overlap proposes a porous tradition rather than a sealed museum category.
Tuning knobs
- Light: `humid softened daylight` (signature) vs `clear cool daylight` vs `warm dusk`
- Color: `jade and soft ocher` (signature) vs `mostly jade` vs `neutral ink only`
- Outline: `selective varied ink line` (signature) vs `full crisp outline` vs `near-invisible outline`
- Wash: `transparent layered stain` (signature) vs `one pale wash` vs `denser opaque pigment`
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