Verdigris
- copper patina palette
- oxidised bronze
- green patina
Four patina greens over the bare bronze and brass they came from.
Opens an image model with the palette in the prompt. The same words work on a video model.
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What it is for
Verdigris is the only green in this catalogue that is also a chemical event. The green is what the metal became, so the palette carries a century of weather inside it.
The pairing is also a natural complement: a cool green against a warm brass, which is why it looks expensive with no effort at all.
How it works
Give the greens most of the area and run them from deep to pale so the surface looks uneven.
Leave the bare metal on the raised edges and the handled parts. That is where a real object wears back to bronze.
Keep the green warm rather than blue. Copper patina is a slightly yellow green, and a blue green reads as paint.
When to use it
Use it for age, craft, science and value: instruments, spirits, a museum piece, a heritage identity, a title card.
Leave it alone for anything new or fast. The whole palette is about slow time.
Told apart from its neighbours
Sea Glass shares the green family but everything in it is pale and frosted. Verdigris is saturated and sits on metal.
Brass and Walnut uses the same warm metal without the patina. Choose that one when the object is kept, and this one when it has been left outside.
Where it was used
The Statue of Liberty is the reference everybody already has, and it took about thirty years to get there. Church roofs and antique instruments give the same set at a smaller scale.
- the Statue of Liberty
- church roofs
- antique scientific instruments
The prompt
Run it as it stands, or drop the colour clause into a prompt you already have. It works in an image prompt and in a video prompt.
<subject>, verdigris palette of four copper patina greens from deep to pale, over two exposed metal notes of dark bronze and warm brass, the green covering most of the surface and the metal showing only on raised edges
What goes wrong
A statue comes back instead of the subject. The palette is the colour set, not the object, so name your own subject at the front.
The green covers everything and reads as paint. Say the bare metal shows on the raised edges.
The green drifts blue and the copper disappears. Say the patina green is warm and slightly yellow.
Leave out
silver, chrome, blue green, plastic surfaces
Watch for
The metal has to show on the edges. Patina with no bare metal in it reads as green paint.
Questions
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