Alice Bailly style reference and prompts

Cubist painting compresses multiple viewpoints into crisp interlocking planes and repeated focal details. Use vertical slices, rounded arcs, and diagonal fan shapes to fracture forms while preserving enough alignment for recognition. Set muted jewel colors—teal, plum, cobalt, ochre, rose, and blue-gray—in warm-cool opposition, with dark blocks serving as shadows. Keep the surface dry and finely grainy rather than slick. Nearly fill the frame, allowing only narrow margins, and let repeated eyes or equivalent small anchors create rhythm across the facets. Light emerges from adjacent color values instead of naturalistic shading. The transferable effect is watchful, layered, and enigmatic.

A square Cubist painting compresses three overlapping female faces into a close arrangement of vertical planes, circles, and diagonal wedges. The central face occupies most of the frame, looking forward with one vivid blue eye and one darker amber eye set at slightly different heights. A pale yellow strip makes the nose, orange-red lips sit low at center, and cheek planes shift between ochre, blue-gray, plum, and deep teal. At the left edge, a narrower face turns in profile toward the center, its long nose and one turquoise eye visible against an orange-brown field. At the right edge, a third face peeks out from behind a dark geometric fan, one pale green eye and a pink cheek half concealed. Layered rounded hat-like forms and sweeping triangular rays cross the upper third. Below, overlapping slate, violet, mustard, and muted green shapes imply collars or shoulders without describing a single continuous body. The whole image is filled to the edges except for thin off-white margins. Pigment has a dry grainy surface rather than glossy flat digital color, and crisp divisions hold the facets together. Light is constructed through juxtaposed warm yellow and cool blue planes rather than one realistic source; shadows are deep teal and violet blocks. The composition is nearly frontal yet deliberately fractured, with repeated eyes and partial profiles giving the figures a watchful, enigmatic rhythm.