How to Create Pop Art

Pop art is a style of art that has captured the imagination of art lovers since the 1950s era and has gone from strength to strength in lots of different formats and designs ever since. From early pioneers of pop art such as Andy 

Taking inspiration from popular culture such as news, comic book heroes and celebrities to name a few and mixing them with a blend of vibrant colours or other unrelated images will give you an idea of how to create a basic pop art piece. Andy Warhol was famous for taking advertising and popular icons of the day and either mixing them with colour and objects at times or creating multiple images of the same face with different finishes applied to each image, examples of this are his work with Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe respectively where he showcased these two famous faces of the day individually across multiple images with the only differences being the blend of colours or tone and pattern in each section.

Whatever the inspiration you choose the golden rule when learning how to create pop art is to choose the image of inspiration and perhaps start by making a piece with four to six portraits of the same image all with different colour, texture, tone and pattern. Once you have chosen the image you must then outline the image to get the shape and highlight the different dark and light areas of the image, making a bold or strong outline will help you define your varied tones, patterns and colours later on.

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Artist Spotlight - Hendrik

Hendrik is an East Midlands based digital artist, specialising and excelling in vector artwork & illustrations. He tries to distances himself from the modern age & keep's his feet (in his '94 Air Max's) firmly in the past. Inspired in part by the whole of the 1960's, [the fashion, the interiors, the Psychedelia, the whole movement] Also, New Wave & pinup erotica in the late 1970's, the bad haircuts & crap movies in the 1980's, the Sega Mega Drive in the 90's. And the decade you may ask? Well not a lot, except the Apple M.ac has set him up well...! A clear Nostalgic junkie, you will find some rare gems of the past in his work. Iconic 60's and 70's wallpaper sections, Psychedelic pop icons, Comic Inspired pieces, Germanesque Abstract, classic 70's / 80's cars, the list is endless.

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