Prompt:
A surreal, Kafkaesque watercolor vision of fishermen’s houses in Montpellier, transformed into a dark winter fantasy. The architecture is grotesquely distorted — elongated, warped, and bending at impossible angles, evoking the unease of Junji Ito and the raw emotional deformation of Bernard Buffet. The houses feel unstable, as though slowly collapsing into themselves.
Silent fishing boats appear as dark, half-concealed silhouettes, barely distinguishable from their reflections. The water is black and viscous, swallowing light, yet mirroring psychedelic HDR distortions of an unnatural golden hour. A hidden, ominous sun bleeds sickly gold into the scene, producing warped reflections that shimmer with unease rather than beauty.
Thick, sentient fog coils around the wooden structures and docks, heavy and oppressive, almost alive. Everything is rendered in watercolor textures — bleeding edges, washed gradients, and granular paper grain — but restricted to a bleak, earthy palette: charcoal blacks, mudded browns, cold grays, with disturbing accents of tarnished gold and greenish glare.
The atmosphere is eldritch and quietly menacing — unsettlingly beautiful, dreamlike, and oppressive. Anxiety is embedded in every line and shadow.
Stylistic influences merge: Dee Nickerson and Xuan Loc Xuan’s surreal watercolor melancholy, Edward Gorey’s anxious black-and-white linework, Junji Ito’s psychological distortion, Bernard Buffet’s harsh geometry.
Style modifiers: surreal dark fantasy, kafkaesque nightmare, eldritch winter atmosphere, distorted architecture, watercolor horror, psychedelic HDR reflections, anxious linework, fine art surrealism
Keywords: Montpellier fishermen houses, black water, winter mist, warped perspective, ominous golden hour, unsettling beauty
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