Blueprint
Art style · 13 words
Contact-printed working drawings in white on blue, iron-salt development giving architecture and machine plans their blue.
Anna Atkins (British, 1799–1871) (1852–54) · Scolopendrium Vulgare · CC0
Feeling words
- indigo
- slate blue
- phosphorescence
- gunmetal
- impersonality
- utilitarian
- functionalism
- machined
- inking
- parallel hatching
- uniformity
- blueprint
- armor seam
Generation prompt
Orthographic white-line drawing of a building or machine, dimensions, sections and a grid filling the sheet; Prussian blue ground with white lines, occasional handwritten annotation; chemically even, shadowless; cyanotype coating with slight bleed and paper texture; flat drawing space, perspective cancelled. Avoid colour rendering.