Painterly

Gouache illustration, opaque color, matte surface, designed shapes with painterly edges, poster-like clarity

Impressionist light, broken color, atmosphere over detail, subject suggested by value and temperature rather than outlines

Oil painting with visible impasto, thick highlights, deeper thin shadows, canvas texture, traditional studio painting

Painterly digital painting, visible brush texture, soft edges, rich color mixing, light described with strokes rather than pixels, traditional media feel

Watercolor on cold-press paper, transparent washes, blooming edges, reserved white paper, loose but controlled drawing underneath