For this mini lesson we chose an artist that falls under a category of styles. The style that I had was "Pop Art". I chose the artist, Roy lichtenstein who is famous for many of his Pop Art stylized pieces. He is know for alot of his "comic" pieces. Which is where i got my inspiration for my piece. We had to use a random object we were given and incorporate it in with our artist and style. My object was "headphones" so i put an image of one of his pieces on the projector and traced and assigned colors onto a piece of drawing paper. I used the image to the right, to draw with my own materials and erase certain parts, then added a pair of headphones onto the character in the image's head. This piece was very successful because i was able to trace easily, and remove parts of the image, by hand, to insert my own drawn pair of headphones. I learned alot about the technique of tracing. Sounds easy, but it really helps to write and almost "map out" what colors go where on your piece before you actually fill in. If there was one thing that i would go back and change it would be to actually model the headphones from an image on my phone instead of drawing right out of my head. All in all i learned probably the most i have ever before in this art class while doing this piece, mainly because of the research i did on roy lichtenstein and the style of pop art. |