David Walker style reference and prompts

The visual treatment layers saturated multicolor paint over a rough gridded surface, letting wall seams, scratches, and drips remain visible. Cool teal, cobalt, and violet passages collide with hot orange, scarlet, yellow, and magenta, while dark linear marks hold the complex shapes together. Broad dragged strokes establish large volumes; small angular hatches and thin runs of pigment animate their edges. The surface is dense and tactile rather than cleanly blended, with colors showing through one another in irregular patches. Cropped oversized forms fill the frame, and a much smaller dark accent can make their scale legible. Even daylight reveals texture across the whole plane, leaving depth to arise from layered pigment and strong color contrast. The effect is urban, immersive, and restless.

A square street-art photograph shows an artist from behind working at the base of an enormous painted face on a wall. The mural fills nearly the entire frame, cropping the upper forehead and lower chin so its blue-green eyes and broad nose dominate the view. Two oversized eyes look forward from the upper half, surrounded by dense strokes of violet, orange, teal, gold, red, and cobalt. The nose descends through the center, while a small part of the mouth appears near the lower right. The surface is not smooth: broad dragged color, narrow scratches, vertical drips, and visible rectangular wall seams cross the painted features. At the lower left, the artist stands close to the wall in a dark shirt, back turned to the viewer. One arm reaches toward the mural, holding a small tool or brush near its lower middle. A low horizontal rail or ledge runs across the foreground, emphasizing the difference between the human scale and the huge painted features. The artist's dark silhouette interrupts the most colorful area without hiding the eyes. Rich pigment is layered so warm orange and red marks vibrate against cool blue and green passages; deeper black hatching defines brows and eye sockets. Daylight is fairly even across the wall, with subtle shadows in the surface recesses and under the artist's head and arm rather than a strong directional cast. The overall composition is immersive and energetic, pairing a monumental gaze with a small working figure and a heavily textured spectrum of color.