Researching Andy Warhol

'Marilyn Monroe - 1962'

I have always loved the work of Andy Warhol, the boldness and colour attracts me to all of his pieces of art work.

Andy is an American painter, print maker, and filmmaker from Pennsylvania. He was a leading figure in the visual art movement of known as pop art.

Scanning Images to make backgrounds

Here I have scanned in various plants/berries/string, I also used crumpled paper for a textured background. I edited the image on Photoshop to make the contrast and brightness higher. I think it would work really well as a background.

Here I used various images such as gift wrap, a leaf, paper. and a torn receipt. I love how abstract this is and also think it would work well as a background. I like the placement of the objects and the texture of the gift wrap looks really effective.

Here I scanned in yet more images, I filled the entire scanner with various things to make a busy, colourful background, I darkened it on Photoshop to give it an old feel.

Working in the style of Julian Opie

A piece of Julian Opie's art work, he uses block colour and thick black outlines.

Today I have been working in the style of Julian Opie. I found a picture of various fruits from Google, added it to photoshop and began to draw thick lines using the paintbrush around the outlines of the fruit. After this, I made a new layer and began to fill the fruit in with block colour so it began to be in the style of Julian Opie.

This is the final result! I made the image look as simple as possible and I think it looks really effective.

I love this quote from Picasso, mainly because I can relate to it a lot. It reminds me of how if things seem to be going wrong, a little bit of art can make you forget it all completely and let your imagination and thoughts flow out of you and onto a new sheet of paper.