2. BASICS
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as
Pop Art. In the mid-20th century he produced iconic silkscreen paintings of subjects as mundane as
soup cans and as glamorous as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. These remain hugely popular,
and have sparked countless imitations by amateurs.
SILKSCREEN TECHNIQUE
The silkscreen technique forces paint onto canvas through a high-contrast negative stencil attached
to the fabric. The resulting image features strong blacks from the photograph, which can be
simulated using Photoshop’s Threshold adjustment. In Warhol’s hands, crude blocks of garish,
striking colour were added to selected areas, and images were often duplicated with alternative
colour schemes.
I’m going to create my own Andy Warhol Style image using Photoshop and I’m going to illustrate the
process I went through to create my image, using print screens and an explanation of what I did.
3. To start off I opened the image of myself in Photoshop and this was my template for my image.
Before I started to do any editing, I noticed that a huge problem I was going to have would be that,
the jumper I’m wearing is almost the same colour as the wall behind me. So when I come to cutting
round me, and erasing the back ground with the magic wand, it will be difficult so I will have to use
the actual eraser, zoom in and get rid of the background that way.
4. I wanted to have a really bright Next I drew round my jumper and coloured
background that the black would stand this with a different colour to stand out
out against it so I chose to have bright from the red. I found this bit hard as I
red. wasn’t sure what to do because the power
point I was following confused me.
To capture the features on my face and
body I change the contrast of the photo to
the point where you can recognise the
features, without the black over powering
the image and it looking like a blur. In the
image I’ve print screened I’ve done it to
just the right contrast and you can tell it’s
right from looking at the original.
5. After contrasting the picture I needed to draw round my face to shape of my hair outline and fill it
in with colour using the brush tool. You can clearly see the features now against the face and it
works really well. I must admit, I was still very confused when I got up to this bit, and I had to get
my teacher to help me and give me some guidance on what to do next, but I grasped it in the end.
6. This is my final completed image and
I’ve really grasped the Warhol
element. I think that this sort of work
requires patience and concentration
because it’s very confusing in parts.
All I have to do now is change the
colours and create a photo collage
with 4 different colour balanced
photos.