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Pioneer Boulevard, Artesia — Little India, before the shops open

Brief · A vintage mid-century travel postcard illustration. Style: printed like cheap vintage four-colour lithography, with a COARSE VISIBLE HALFTONE DOT SCREEN across the entire image — especially sky and water. Fine stipple and engraved tonal detail underneath the screen, but no bold black outlines, no woodcut, no comic ink, no photorealism, no 3D, no gloss, no digital gradients. Palette: warm cream-sand #f0d8c0 plus one blue — dusty teal #90c0c0 and slate #607878 when sun-bleached, saturated cyan #30c0d8 when vivid. Muted olive greens in foliage. Composition: the subject sits in the RIGHT THIRD; the left two-thirds is nearly empty sky, water or ground. Low horizon. No people, or figures so small they are marks. Scene: Pioneer Boulevard in Artesia — Little India — early morning before opening. A run of low storefronts with awnings and signage rendered as blank panels, a jacaranda mid-block, a delivery van, the street quiet and clean. Mood: warm, ordinary, unhurried. Somebody sweeping. Optional single small red accent: one awning. No text, no lettering, no signage anywhere. 3:2 landscape, full bleed.