I Tried Every AI Art Tool Out There. Then I Built One That Doesn't Alter My Artwork, And Sells More Art
Over 20 copy-and-paste prompts that clean up your artwork photos and hang your paintings in rooms a collector can picture in her own house. It runs in ChatGPT, so there's no second subscription, and it never touches a brushstroke. I started showing my small work hung together in these rooms, and my small pieces started selling on large bundles.
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On the wall
My painting on my studio floor, then on the wall. That's it in the bottom frame. Made with the prompts in the guide.
How You Style It Changes What She Buys.
I had a collection of small pieces, and for a while they sold the way small pieces usually sell. One here. One there.
Then I started showing them hung TOGETHER. Eight of them on a real wall, in a real room, at the size they actually are.
One collector ordered 24 pieces. Another ordered 8.
I can't prove the pictures did that. But I've never once had someone buy 24 small paintings off a white background photo. The minute she could SEE the grid, she bought the grid.
Collectors can't picture it the way we can. She's looking at a photo on a phone with no idea if that piece is 9 inches or 4 feet. She isn't deciding whether your work is good. She's deciding whether she can see it in her house.
My botanicals, all the way up my staircase. Made from phone photos with the prompts in the guide.
Results vary by individual and aren't guaranteed.
I kept handing my artwork photos to AI and asking it to do one small job. Straighten the piece. Fix the gray shadow in the corner. Get rid of the sliver of rug.
Every tool did something else instead. It smoothed my texture. It sharpened my flowers into plastic. It turned my signature into a font. On one of my irises, it added a petal I never painted.
That's not my painting anymore. That's a painting ABOUT my painting.
So I kept going. The art ones, the photo ones, the mockup ones, the ones with a monthly fee that promise a gallery wall in one click. True story, I paid for several of them and I'd like that money back.
What I ended up with is a workflow, not a tool. It cleans up the photo and builds the room, and it leaves every mark where I put it. It runs in ChatGPT. No new subscription, nothing else to buy.
Same Painting. Every Time.
Nothing on this page was retouched by hand or sent to a photographer. Every one of these came from a photo I took on my studio floor.
Before
AfterClean master
In a roomClean masterUp a staircaseIs This Cheating?
Only if you use it dishonestly, and I'll show you where that line is.
This guide never touches what's inside your painting. AI handles the photography, the thing a photographer would handle, and then the room, the thing a stylist and a photoshoot would handle.
There's a whole section on presenting mockups honestly. Call it a styled visualization. Never pretend a digital room is a real install. Never make your piece look bigger than it is. I hold that line in my own shop and I teach it the same way.
Collectors want to picture your work in their home. You're just helping them do it.
Small Botanicals. Big Abstracts. The Same Prompts.
Every painting, photo and mockup on this page is mine, made in ChatGPT with the exact prompts in this guide.
Before
AfterA big abstract, shot on the easel in my studio. Hung over a console in a living room.
BeforeAfterA small botanical on paper, shot on my studio floor. That's it in the bottom frame, hung as a pair in a study.
Before
AfterA framed canvas, shot on an easel. Hung over the mantel in a living room.
Every brushstroke is still mine. That's the whole point.
What Happens When Your Photos Finally Look Like Your Work
Sell more art.
When she can picture it over her console, she's a whole lot closer to yes. That's the photo's job.
Raise the value of your brand.
Styled rooms show your work in the kind of homes it belongs in. Collectors judge the price by what they see.
Save time.
No photographer to book and no staging a room in your house. One phone photo, a few prompts, done.
Save energy.
Stop arguing with AI to leave your painting alone. The prompts do the arguing for you.
A professional display for every piece.
Clean, straight, true-to-color images for your whole shop, including the small pieces you never got around to shooting.
Answer "how big is it?" before she asks.
True-to-size mockups show scale at a glance, so a 12 by 9 reads like a 12 by 9.
Sell the collection, one wall at a time.
Gallery walls and grids let her see the set, and buy the set. That's how one collector ordered 24 pieces.
Weeks of content from one painting.
One clean master becomes a feed post, a Story, a website banner, a shop listing and an email header.
No new app to pay for.
It runs in ChatGPT. No mockup software, no extra monthly fee, nothing else to learn.
Results vary by individual and aren't guaranteed.
Three Steps. One Painting at a Time.
Shoot It Right.
Your phone is fine. Soft light, camera parallel, a little border around the edges. Five minutes.
Clean It and Lock It.
Paste the master cleanup prompt, fill in your dimensions, compare, correct, save your clean master.
Hang It Anywhere.
Paste the mockup prompt, describe the room you want, and pick your ratio for Instagram, Stories, your website banner or your shop listing.
Everything You Need to Stop AI From Touching Your Art
Exactly how to shoot your art so AI has nothing to guess about. Including what to do with textured pieces.
Your painting, straightened and color-corrected on a clean background, with every mark left alone. Plus add-ons for deckled paper and gallery-wrapped canvas.
For when the art looks AI generated, the color is off, the proportions stretched, the edges disappeared or small details changed. Paste the one you need and move on.
A believable room at a believable scale, so a 12 by 9 piece reads like a 12 by 9 piece and not a poster.
How to get that collected, layered, "a designer did this" room without copying anyone's published interior. Four style translations ready to use.
Hang 4, 8 or 12 pieces together with every work used once, at the right relative size.
Seven problems and the exact prompt that fixes each one.
The right ratio and prompt language for feed posts, Stories, carousels, website banners and product listings.
One before you publish a clean artwork image. One before you publish a mockup.
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Will Collectors Think It's Fake?
Not if you use it the way I teach it.
This guide never touches what's inside your painting. AI only fixes the photography and builds the room around the work.
There's a whole section on presenting mockups honestly.
Call it a styled visualization. Never pretend a digital room is a real install. Never make your piece look bigger than it is.
Collectors want to picture your work in their home.
You're just helping them do it.
I Used to Shoot My Paintings on the Floor Too. I Still Do.
I'm a self-taught artist who left a PR career to paint. Brick by brick, I've sold over $2 million in original art.
And for years my product photos were the weakest part of my business. I didn't have a photographer. I didn't have a styled room sitting around. I had a phone and a studio floor.
So I wrote down the whole workflow, so you don't have to spend months fighting AI to leave your painting alone.
You're Probably Wondering
Are the rooms in your mockups real? My home isn't decorated like that.
Which AI tool do I need?
I'm not techy. Can I do this?
Does it work for textured or thick paint?
Is this AI art?
Is it a subscription?
I'm in The Artists' Collective. Do I get a discount?
Your Next Collector Is Going to See Your Work on a Screen First.
She's deciding in about two seconds whether it belongs in her house. Right now she's looking at your floor.
Are you ready to show her the wall instead?
One payment. Every brushstroke stays yours.- The course
- The Photo Setup Checklist$27
- The Master Cleanup Prompt + edge add-ons$67
- Five Fix-It Prompts$47
- The Interior Mockup Prompt$67
- The Designer Reference Formula$47
- Gallery Wall & Staircase Prompts$67
- The Scale & Framing Fix Table$27
- The Output Cheat Sheet$27
- Two Publish Checklists$17
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