Review of Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Using the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner.

As part of my 'Communicating Ideas in 2D' unit for college I chose him as one of my 4 artists. I've always saw all those 'pop art makeup tutorials' on youtube and really wanted to try some of Lichtenstein's work, some of my favourite pieces include: 'Thinking of him', 'The melody haunts my reverie' and his cover for 1966 newsweek's pop art issue. There is only one thing that I really struggled with, with this artists which was the technique of applying the dots to the face that Roy does so well..nevertheless it was a puzzle which i enjoyed trying to solve.

Strike 1

So today in college we were working on putting together our matchbox that we started last week with just little studies but this week we had a bigger piece of paper to draw a big scale drawing of the matchbox and the objects we had out inside of it. We had go pay close attention to composition and positive/negative spaces when doing this. 

Here I have inserted a photo of what I have came up with so far. For the main part of the matchbox I used acrylic paints, a black sharpie marker and a black fine liner and as for one of the objects inside I chose to cut some cardboard down to the size of the polo mint j had drew and stuck that down as part of the start of a collage. 

~'earth' without 'art' is just 'eh' x

During my time at Borders College so far I have learnt quite a lot of useful information about different techniques and ways of using watercolours and acrylics. I have inserted 3 pictures below this text of a 'Graded Wash', a 'Colour Wheel' and experimenting going from light to dark.

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~'art is a way of life because 'earth' without 'art' is just 'eh'

Anna King

Tuesday 17th September 2013

It started off pretty cold today but none of that mattered when we entered Old gala House; the house in which Anna King's works of art was being displayed because her work was absolutely magnificent, to some people it may not look like anything special if you just take a quick glimpse at them but if you really look at them and study each and every little detail you can clearly see how much passion she puts in to her work. Truly brilliant. I also noticed in one of her paintings (which I sadly forgot to take a picture of) she had scratched out the shape of a lamp-post, it took a while for me to notice that but when I looked up close I saw it. 

Here are a couple of the paintings that were displayed today

~Shed, Innerleithen
oil and pencil on paper and board

~Dalmally
oil and pencil on paper and board

~art is a way of life because 'earth' without 'art' is just 'eh'