21 Midjourney Prompts to Create Beautiful Landscape Art

Midjourney is an awesome AI tool that creates imaginative images from text prompts. By simply describing a scene or concept, you can generate stunning artwork with Midjourney using its image synthesis capabilities.

In this post, I provide 21 unique prompts focused on landscape photography and nature themes to showcase Midjourney’s artistic talents. From mystical forests to Japanese zen gardens, bold abstract seascapes to Van Gogh-inspired lavender fields, there’s something for every artistic taste.

No artistic skill is required on your end! The AI handles the creative illustration while you simply provide prompts sparking its visual imagination. It’s incredibly fun specifying a visual style, artistic medium like oil painting or pixel art, and descriptive elements like weather conditions, landmarks, colors schemes, and more while Midjourney translates ideas into gorgeous graphical depictions.

Let’s check 21 landscape image ideas you can instantly produce with Midjourney. Beyond showcasing its output, my goal is to inspire you to unlock your inner creativity with these prompts as a starting point.

Mystical Forests

Let’s start by envisioning a magical, mystical emerald forest brought to life with Midjourney’s digital painting talents.

Prompt: A fantasy digital painting of a mystical emerald green forest with sunlight streaming between ancient towering trees.

This prompt generates a vivid, mystical landscape complete with brilliant rays of sunshine piercing a lush green canopy. Massive, intricately-detailed trees fill the fairytale forest scene.

Tropical Scenes

Now let’s transport to an island paradise at sunset! This prompt incorporates palm trees, the ocean, and a tropical color scheme:

Prompt: A painting of two palm trees in sea and sunset, in the style of paul catherall, dark sky-blue and dark gray, exotic birds, digital illustration.

With creative liberties taken to dictate the artistic style, colors, and additional elements like exotic birds, Midjourney creates a digital illustration that looks like it belongs on a postcard.

Alpine Lakes

For our next prompt, pristine mountain wilderness is brought to life with a traditional artistic medium – a watercolor landscape painting:

Prompt: A watercolor painting of a tranquil Alpine lake surrounded by evergreen trees and rocky cliffs, mist in the far mountains.

Here Midjourney produces a picturesque Alpine scene in gentle watercolors, capturing the stillness of a mountain lake ringed by evergreens and distant peaks veiled in mist.

Adventure Landscapes

Imagining yourself as the protagonist venturing through epic landscapes is easy to do with the following prompt:

Prompt: Landscape with trees and birds and sunset background, in the style of adventure pulp, dark silver and light red, nature-inspired imagery, calm waters, vibrant illustration.

This scene contains hallmarks of adventure – unknown lands filled with intensity and intrigue, captured in a vibrant illustration style popularized by retro pulp fiction books. The AI artwork contains the specified color scheme and elements.

Scottish Castles

Continuing our global landscape tour is a prompt showcasing Midjourney’s versatility in artistic styles with a pen and ink drawing:

Prompt: A pen and ink drawing with precise cross-hatching of an old stone castle on a cliff above a foggy Scottish loch.

The AI perfectly executes the drawing technique of cross-hatching to illustrate the details of a medieval Scottish castle perched dramatically above a fog-filled loch.

Train Viaducts

For this prompt, we envision an epic rail bridge against a colorful sunset, depicted in a vintage European poster style:

Prompt: An art nouveau poster depicting a steam train crossing a soaring viaduct bridge in autumn colors at sunset.

Midjourney masterfully replicates the stylized elegance of art nouveau in this print poster, placing a detailed steam locomotive against the backdrop of a monumental stone viaduct washed in warm autumnal sunset hues.

Mountains and Water

Let’s enjoy the interplay of earth and water elements with this nature landscape envisioning mountains reflected in shimmering waters:

Prompt: A painting of mountains and trees against a dark sky and moon, sparkling water reflections, light purple and dark pink.

The color scheme comes through beautifully here – a night scene where mountains and trees are rendered in light purple and dark pink tones against a deep blue sky and moon, mirrored in glimmering waters below.

Blooming Gardens

For a burst of floral cheer, this next prompt generates a vibrant painterly scene celebrating Savannah’s azalea-strewn public gardens:

Prompt: A vibrant cartoon rendition of Savannah’s historic downtown with its gardens in full bloom under hanging Spanish moss.

Midjourney crafts a lively cartoon impression of Savannah’s downtown, amplifying the brilliant colors of spring blossoms festooning the gardens as weeping willows draped in Spanish moss sway above.

Seaside Paths

If you find serenity by the sea, you’ll love this photo-realistic coastal painting:

Prompt: An oil painting of a stone path near the sea, in the style of photo-realistic landscapes, island view.

Great Wall of China

This prompt generates a classic East Asian landscape depicting one of the world’s most iconic structures, rendered with traditional brushwork:

Prompt: A traditional Sumi ink landscape painting of the Great Wall of China snaking along peaks disappearing into atmospheric fog.

With eloquent Sumi ink strokes, Midjourney depicts the Great Wall undulating across mountain ridges until it fades into clouds and mist, evoking age-old Asian landscape paintings.

Countryside Posters

Envisioning scenic landscapes is easy with Midjourney. Here we have a vintage-looking travel poster showcasing idyllic countryside:

Prompt: Flat vector illustration of the countryside with a river, in the style of vintage poster style.

The AI delivers a retro-styled travel poster actualized as a vector graphic, sharply illustrating rolling hills, mountains, a meandering river, and quaint trees characteristic of rural countryside charm.

Lavender Fields

For something vivid and textured, this prompt generates a Van Gogh-esque scene of everyone’s favorite purple flower:

Prompt: An acrylic painting in Van Gogh’s dynamic brush strokes of white-capped lavender fields under swirling dynamic skies.

Emulating Van Gogh’s signature thick, tactile brushwork, this acrylic painting depicts undulating lavender rows dusted in white, set against an expressive sky swirled with feathery clouds.

Martian Settlements

This prompt envisions an imagined future landscape on Mars through the nostalgic lens of pixel art:

Prompt: Pixel art animation looping through the full day-night cycle over titanium spires of a settlement built into an Martian crater.

We’re treated to a retro-futuristic moving image of geometric titanium towers, domes, and cubes integrated along the inner walls of a vast Mars crater, displaying the red planet’s alternate dawn and dusk skyscapes.

Photo-Realistic Rivers

Midjourney also impresses with ultra-realistic landscape paintings like this river scene:

Prompt: Painting of trees and boat on a river, in the style of photo-realistic techniques, free brushwork.

Abstract Ocean Waves

For this ocean wave scene, we’ll embrace bold abstract forms and colors:

Prompt: The raw energy of a crashing ocean wave, captured in bold colors and swirling abstract forms.

Midjourney delivers on the prompt beautifully with a dynamic, almost psychedelic rendition of a breaking wave, translating the sheer power and motion of the ocean through rich saturated hues and spiraling lines.

Hudson River Mountains

The Hudson River School painters portrayed stunning 19th century American wilderness landscapes like this epic mountain range:

Prompt: A majestic mountain range reminiscent of a Hudson River School landscape, detailed and awe-inspiring.

True to the prompt, Midjourney generates a romantic yet precise painting of soaring, craggy peaks that would make Albert Bierstadt proud. Tiny figures gaze in wonder, dwarfed by the grandeur.

Japanese Gardens

For an orderly, designed landscape in the Asian aesthetic, we have a zen garden complete with cherry blossoms:

Prompt: A tranquil Japanese garden with cherry blossoms, koi pond, and stepping stones, in the style of a woodblock print.

In the traditional Japanese woodblock style, this image depicts a peaceful zen garden with flowering cherry trees, an ornate footbridge over a koi pond, and stone pathways – neatly composed scenes of natural and designed beauty.

Pop Art Cacti

Switching gears for some pop art whimsy, Midjourney obliges with a delightfully weird landscape:

Prompt: A pop-art landscape, bold colors, flat shapes, featuring cacti and desert mountains.

With the requested pop art flair, this scene collages together pixelated cacti, triangular mountains, and a bold red and purple backdrop – a fun, postmodern pastiche combining nature and graphic design.

Lakes and Flowers

Let’s enjoy some Impressionist scenery with lakes and flowers:

Prompt: A landscape with lakes and flowers, in the style of cyril rolando.

Channeling French artist Cyril Rolando’s vibrant floral landscapes, Midjourney creates an idyllic summer scene of abundant blooms surrounding a shimmering lake.

Farmhouse Painting

For some peaceful countryside, this prompt generates a colorful animation still of a farmhouse:

Prompt: A painting of a country scene with a farmhouse and trees, colorful animation still.

The AI creates a vivid storybook illustration of a cozy farmhouse and barn tucked among autumnal trees – richness and nostalgia warmly emanate from this painted country vista.

River Sunset

We’ll end where we began, enveloped in nature with this epic sunset river painting:

Prompt: The sunset over a river is painted in oil painting, in the style of ink wash paintings.

Midjourney mimics the soothing aesthetics of East Asian brushwork to depict a hazy golden sunset descending upon a silvery river, mist obscuring shadowy forests and distant peaks. The sun’s waning glow infuses the landscape with luminescent warmth.

I hope these 21 prompts set your creative gears turning and illustrate Midjourney’s exceptional capacity for manifesting landscapes, scenes, styles, and concepts into gorgeous AI artworks. This stunning visual synthesis technology is groundbreaking yet accessible to all.

What landscapes can you envision that spark your inner muse? Dream up your own worldbuilding ideas and let Midjourney visually realize your mental images. The possibilities are limited only by imagination.