Pop Art Self Potrait

This week LS1 has been working on creating a pop art styled art work of our self. First we researched about this style of art and Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was very famous and known for doing this type of art. Pop art is taking something or someone that is popular and create it into art. After the researching we got on to doing the pop art self portrait. First we had our photo taken by Mr Wong. Then we those photos were printed out in black and white. What we had to do was, get the printed out photo of us and use a blue pen to outline your details and to separate the black parts from the white parts. Once we finished that we moved on to the next step. We had to turn the paper over and outline the details that we made on the front of the paper but on the back. We needed to make it very thick and dark because we would be using it as a stencil later so it saves us the trouble of having to draw it free handed. We used this technique so that it transferred onto the new sheet of paper better, we had to take our pencil and go over it back and forth going over the line making it thick and dark. We we go this part wrong, then we had to start from the begin again because this was an important step and we had to make sure that we didn't forget any detail. It took a quite a while to do so no one wanted to restart. If Mr Ogilvie or Mr Wong approved your work then you got to move on. Afterwards we did the transferring. We had to get a new white sheet of paper and got it taped to the back of your paper with the self portrait. This part you had to be very careful and persistent with it and if you got this wrong you needed to restart all the way from the beginning. This all took time to do so I was more scared about messing this part up. To transfer it, we had to get a red pen and press hard and go over all the lines that you made and details. You needed to make sure that you did everything before looking to see if you did it right. I was very happy and relieved to see that mine worked just fine. Now once we finished all that drawing, it was time for colouring! First we are doing pasteling to colour in all the white spaces. We needed to get a bright coloured pastel to make it pop, because that it like what Andy Warhol did. I chose the colour pink, and so did my other 2 friends Farzana and Sakina. With part aswell, if you messed up you needed to start from the beginning. If you messed up you either coloured in the black parts, went out lines or maybe coloured in some of the black parts on accident but it was to much so you had to restart because paint and pastel don't go well. Next, after finishing that, we were close to finishing. All we needed to do was painting and vividing. Farzana was the first one to finish her work. In my opinion I think it looks great. We had to use only black to colour in the black parts in the photo. I was able to get on to this part and let it dry. Lastly was the vividing. We had to outline all the lines in the photo that were pencil with a vivid. I took photos for each stage of the pop art so that you can see the process. I enjoyed doing this because I love art, it is one of my favourite subjects and also because I get to get a practise about pop art and to learn a new style of art.