Amy Sillman style reference and prompts

Use loose, revision-rich painting with broad opaque color patches interleaved with thin searching contours. Build forms through overlap, partial erasure, and visible earlier decisions, letting some edges dissolve while others are reinforced by dark lines. Favor a light, varied palette of milky white, pale blue, sage, peach, terracotta, mustard, and soft pink, anchored by small near-black accents. Keep perspective shallow and slightly unstable so the composition reads as a rhythmic arrangement of shapes. Alternate dry scraped texture, flat filled areas, and translucent marks. Balance an airy upper field with denser interlocking forms below. The effect is playful, observational, and intentionally open, preserving the energy of adjustment rather than a polished final contour.

A square painting presents a crowded yet airy interior built from loose, overlapping blocks of color. In the foreground, a small round table stands slightly left of center on slender dark legs. A pale blue bowl and a translucent yellow vessel rest on its dark green top. To the right, an orange wooden chair with a thin frame and a rounded seat turns diagonally toward the viewer; its back rises into a pale pink and gray patchwork of wall and furniture. Another soft yellow-green chair occupies the left side, partly obscured by the table and by a dark green vertical rectangle. In the rear, fragments of doorways, windows, frames, and indistinct furniture create a shallow domestic space without resolving into precise perspective. The palette moves between milky white, pale blue, muted sage, peach, terracotta, mustard yellow, pink, and occasional nearly black accents. Broad dry brushstrokes and scraped patches overlap thinner pencil-like contours. Some objects are first drawn as looping, searching lines and then partially covered by opaque paint; others emerge only where neighboring colors meet. Orange curves repeat between the chair, background shapes, and a rounded form under its seat. The upper region stays relatively light and open, while dark accents hold the busy arrangement together. Edges wobble and break, leaving small glimpses of earlier marks visible. There is no readable text and no figure. The image feels observational but deliberately unresolved, finding rhythm in ordinary furnishings through asymmetrical balance, revised outlines, and the contrast between transparent sketch and thick paint.