A surreal expressionist illustrated poster pairs a jewel-stealing embezzler scene with a haiku-style text panel for literary art or social media sharing.
Prompt
Goal: Create a wide illustrated poetry poster combining a surreal expressionist painting on the left with a black text panel on the right, inspired by Marc Chagall and early modernist folk art.
Canvas: Horizontal 16:9 composition, approximately 1024×576. Left two-thirds is a richly textured oil-painting scene with a thin dark border; right one-third is a matte black panel containing a QR code and centered poem text.
Left illustration: Paint a dreamlike night scene in thick impasto brushstrokes, muted jewel tones, and slightly distorted elongated faces. The central subject is 1 slim, pale, melancholy male embezzler with a long narrow face, dark curly hair, heavy-lidded eyes, wearing a dark navy coat over a purple vest, white shirt, and tie. He is looking downward while checking his vest pocket. In his left hand he holds a paper ticket labeled “TRAIN TICKET WEST”; in his right hand he holds cash near a vest pocket stuffed with tiny colorful jewels. In the lower foreground, show 1 large straw bird nest filled with stolen valuables: exactly 1 visible dollar bill, 1 gold pocket watch, 1 pearl necklace strand, and 8 large faceted jewels in red, purple, clear, yellow, and blue tones. Perched on the nest is 1 black-and-white magpie holding a string of pearls in its beak.
Additional painted figures and symbols: Include exactly 5 background/story elements in the painted panel: 1 solemn bride-like woman at upper left with flowers and a small gray bird at her chest; 1 steam locomotive traveling through a blue-green landscape at mid-right; 1 white horse with 1 purple rider floating in the sky near the top; 1 yellow crescent moon at the upper right; and 1 masked purple theatrical figure near the lower right edge. Keep all figures painterly, symbolic, and slightly dreamlike rather than realistic.
Right text panel: Use a solid black background. At the top center place 1 white square QR-code graphic. Beneath it, center a haiku-like poem in pale blue-gray hand-lettered text with gentle irregular letterforms. The poem must read exactly:
“feathering his nest\nwith stolen jewels and cash\nthe embezzler\nchecks his vest pockets\nfor the train ticket west”
Make the phrase “train ticket west” slightly bolder than the surrounding text. Below the poem, add a small centered credit block in the same hand-lettered style reading:
“AI image created by\nMichael H. Lester\nin collaboration with\nGPT Image 2 Low on\nNightcafestudio\ntwitter: @mhlester”
At the bottom, add two centered URL lines: “https://creator.nightcafe.studio/?ru/mhlester” and “https://4-michael-lester.pixels.com/”.
Style constraints: No photorealism. Use expressive brush texture, flattened perspective, blue-violet night palette, gold and gem accents, poetic melancholy mood, and handmade lettering. Preserve the exact count of characters, animals, valuables, and background symbols; do not add extra objects, logos, or decorative borders beyond the visible dark frame.
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