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White Arch Shadow Play

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

White Arch Shadow Play is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for wall art work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 4:5 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6.5 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more minimalist prompts .

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A white arch casting hard geometric sunlight shadows, minimalist SDXL render
White Arch Shadow Play — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 4:5

Prompt 

minimalist architectural photograph of a white plaster arch in hard midday sunlight, one crisp diagonal shadow cutting across the curved wall, strong geometry of light and shade, warm white and soft grey palette, fine stucco texture, clean empty composition with nothing but the arch and its shadow, high contrast

Negative prompt 

people, furniture, plants, doors, windows, text, watermark, clutter, soft blurry shadows, overcast light, lowres, distorted perspective

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
4:5
Steps
30
CFG scale
6.5
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

"Hard midday sunlight" plus the negative "soft blurry shadows" is the combination that produces the knife-edge shadow line — SDXL defaults to gentle diffuse lighting on architecture, and a soft shadow turns this from graphic design back into a plain building photo. "One crisp diagonal shadow" keeps the geometry to a single dominant line; unnumbered shadows multiply and the composition turns into a lattice. The negatives for doors and windows matter more than usual because SDXL treats an arch as an invitation to build a whole facade around it. If the wall renders clinical blue-white, "warm white" is already in the prompt — raise its weight to (warm white:1.2) rather than adding golden-hour terms, which would soften the shadow edge you are here for.

Variations to try

  • Terracotta version — swap to "sun-baked terracotta wall, deep umber shadow" for a warmer Mediterranean print
  • Double-arch version — ask for "two nested arches, the inner one in full shadow" to add one layer of depth while keeping a single light source
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "White Arch Shadow Play",
  "prompt": "minimalist architectural photograph of a white plaster arch in hard midday sunlight, one crisp diagonal shadow cutting across the curved wall, strong geometry of light and shade, warm white and soft grey palette, fine stucco texture, clean empty composition with nothing but the arch and its shadow, high contrast",
  "negative_prompt": "people, furniture, plants, doors, windows, text, watermark, clutter, soft blurry shadows, overcast light, lowres, distorted perspective",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "4:5",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6.5,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "minimalist",
    "abstract"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "wall-art"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/minimal-arch-shadow-play/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.