Painting ideas

[lillilah]

I paint a lot of birthday cards, and I'm falling behind. On top of that, I'm not painting anything for my house, which I would like to do. So, I need to simplify. I don't really do that. My style is mostly really detailed. I had thought that I would just do zentangle. It is fun and fairly simple. However, I like colors and paint. So, I looked at various painting styles, and the one that stood out the most to me is that very minimalist landscape painting style, where you have four or five layers of flat colors with like a big sun and a little cactus or house or something. Just search "minimalist landscape illustration", and you'll see what I'm talking about. I was talking to the AI about it, and I came up with the idea to make a kind of "painting idea generator", which is so very me. Anyway, I have some "genres": Realistic, Fantasy, Space/Sci-fi, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, and underwater, some color schemes: monochromatic, analogous, triadic, complementary, split complement, and elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Aether/Spirit. For the moment, I'm using dice to choose which of these I'll use, but eventually, I'll get a bit more organized. Still, today's "post-apocalyptic, fire, and monochromatic yellow" is already a good starting place. We'll see how this works out.