🎨 Michael Parkes is an American-born painter, sculptor, and master lithographer, widely recognized as a pioneer of Magic Realism. Born in 1944 in Sikeston, Missouri, he studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kansas before embarking on a spiritual journey to India that deeply influenced his artistic vision.
His work blends meticulous realism with mystical and fantastical themes—featuring winged women, mythical beasts, and esoteric symbolism drawn from traditions like Tantrism and Kabbalah. Parkes’ signature style is both technically refined and dreamlike, often described as “realism dusted with magic”.
Now living in Europe, he continues to create paintings, sculptures, and limited-edition lithographs that transport viewers into a world where beauty, mystery, and imagination reign supreme.
Showcase images were created with ComfyUI and are in PNG, include metadata & workflow.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This model is a tribute to the artist and not an attempt to copy or reproduce his works. Flux1.D is unable to reproduce a graphic universe on which it was trained, the goal is solely to expand Flux's pictorial capabilities.
Description
Model trained on civitai with 26 images.
Recommended resources : Fluxmania
Recommended inference : dpmpp_2m or heunpp2 / sgm_uniform / 20 steps / guidance : 3.5
Weighting :
close-up : 0.5
wide shot : 0.75
FAQ
Comments (10)
Really nice, thank you, can you do the one "somthing hanks?" his portraits always hide the woman's face so the viewer can make his own image.
Steve Hanks ?
@Adel_AI YES! sorry I am terrible at checkng comments, you are 100% right about the artist!
If you could do the photography style of dre Dogue, that would be awesome
Love dogs, sure. But training a LoRA for one? That’s a level of canine commitment I’m not emotionally prepared for
@Adel_AI dogs?, are we talking about the same photographer?😅
@alternative_Universe I thought you were talking about dogs 🤣
@Adel_AI lol noo, that's why I said his photography style
@alternative_Universe That's what I thought at first; that it was a photographer, so I went to Google it, and it only brought up pictures of dogs, that's stupid of me, I should have specified "photographer"
@Adel_AI here is his Twitter: https://x.com/dredogue?lang=es
If I want to check his style
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