Tanya Shatseva style reference and prompts

The image has a saturated painterly finish with smooth tonal modeling inside focal shapes and energetic colored strokes around them. Deep cobalt, teal, violet, and plum form a dense cool field, cut by small warm orange, magenta, and gold accents. Contours are selectively crisp at expressive details but break into swirls, short marks, and fine speckles toward the outer areas. Illumination is warm from the upper front, creating luminous pale planes against cool blue-violet recesses; highlights are compact rather than uniformly glossy. Layered color gives the dark areas internal movement instead of reducing them to flat black. The overall effect is intimate and dreamlike, with a quiet central form suspended within a vivid, sparkling surround.

A square, vividly colored painterly portrait shows a young woman from the shoulders up, resting her chin on one hand against a deep blue and teal background. Her head fills the center, tilted slightly to the right, while large green-blue eyes look upward toward the upper right. Thick violet and plum hair sweeps across her forehead and gathers in a loose knot toward the upper left, with stray curved strands framing her cheek. Warm orange and magenta light runs through the hair and across the top of her forehead, contrasting with the cooler shadow at the side of her face. Her pale skin is modeled with cream, peach, lilac, and soft rose strokes; a small warm highlight sits on the nose and the pink lips remain gently parted. The hand rises from the lower right, fingers curled beneath the chin, and the wrist disappears into the dark sleeve. A blue-black garment forms a broad low shape across the bottom, with only a slim warm yellow area near the neck. Behind her, turquoise swirls, navy pockets, and scattered tiny yellow, pink, and blue specks suggest a densely painted, almost starry field rather than a specific place. The face has smooth gradual transitions, but visible colored marks remain in the hair, sleeve, and background. Delicate dark lines define eyelashes and the upper eye shapes without turning the whole image into a hard outline drawing. Light arrives from the upper left and front, brightening the eye whites, upper cheek, forehead, and fingertips, while violet-blue shade deepens along the far jaw and clothing. The overall composition makes the searching upward gaze the focal point, held by saturated jewel colors and lively, layered paint texture.