What better why to kick off my blog with a progress pic! My first attempt at a Pop Art style painting is complete. I call it "Shades of Blue"
The project was a birthday gift for my wife. She is a fan of pop artists like Warhol & Lichtenstein and the general mod/60's style. My inspiration for the this came from a art piece I saw on Pinterest, which lead to an Etsy item. The original item sold but here's the picture:
But a quick recap of the process is:
1. I did a rough sketch of her on a piece of notebook paper (it's what I had with me at work at the time)
2. I scanned the image so I could manipulate it on the computer.
3. Using MS Paint, I stretched the image to give me a good reference. In this case, I knew my canvases would be 12"x36" so I adjusted the image accordingly
4. I printed the new stretched image to give myself a full size reference image.
5. Using the new reference image, I sketched Blue on to 3 canvases.
6. From there is was a matter of painting each part (legs, body, face, etc) a different shade of blue. It took a little pre-planning to make sure each part was a different blue.
The paint I used was just acrylic craft paint from Michael's. The inexpensive ones that are $0.69 to $1.29 a bottle. The canvases were also from Michael's. They were the Artist's Loft brand back stapled canvases.
As I said, it's ALMOST complete. They still need frames. I haven't seen any store bought frames that fit a 12"x36" canvas, that I like. Also, I'm too cheap to do custom framing at Michael's or Jo-Ann, so I think I'll be doing a DIY frame. I'm thinking a simple, black frame would look good. So I'm off to my local Menards/Lowe's/Home Depot to see what I can find for a frame without breaking the bank.
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Next up - My custom framing job for Shades of Blue.
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