My Pop Art Inspired Painting / Art
This time last year I was sharing with you some of my work from my then project; the Titanic. Since this year I can't really share what I'm creating exactly due to not wanting my final outcome to be seen (yet), I thought I'd share a painting from early on in my project.
This year I'm looking at Female Characters and the first artist I explored was Roy Lichtenstein. I created a painting from an image I took and used mark making techniques and collage to create a pop art style. I expanded on Lichensteins style and made the character more realistic rather than comic book-esc. By this I mean I let her keep her brown hair and tattoo. She is her own character with a unique combination of attributes.
At first, I wasn't all too happy with the painting, however (as per usual) once I got going and continued to work on it I found that actually I quite like it! I love the eyes and lashes, the dress, hair and the collage behind the drill.
I've heard of this seven-stage creative process which goes something like:
1- 'I'm so excited to start this project. I have all these ideas and I'm ready to go'.
2- Working on it. Things are going well and some perhaps not too well.
3- 'Ooh I'm not too sure about this'
4- 'I hate it. This is the worst creation ever. I can't be an artist. The deadline is looming and I don't know what to do with my work now.
5- 'oh. It's not too bad'. Things start to go well, you've made a step to fix any issues and you've taken a breather.
6- 'I love it! it's the best thing I've ever made!'
...I realise that here there are only 6 but hopefully, you get my point. At this point in my project, I would say that I'm in the doubt stage. I have things I like but things have definitely gone wrong. I'm rolling with it.
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