Pop Art Portraits - Transform Photos of Loved Ones
Posted on October 29, 2009
Filed Under Digital Camera Features, Good Digital Cameras |
Pop Art Portraits are hip art forms especially for your loved ones. Your friends will indeed be impressed by the unusual gift of a pop art portrait. A pop-art portrait is a personal gift your friends will surely treasure for the rest of their lives. Giving gifts today no longer requires you to spend lots of money. All you need to have is just creativity and you will go a long way.
The art movement of pop art began in the 20th century. Pop art is basically the isolation of a visual representation of modern commodities. The artist can add expression to give the portrait a different meaning to the original image. Marilyn Monroe for instance (the visual commodity) is transformed into pop art. The artist would then improve the background by replacing it with a chosen graphic or colour.
Even if your friend is not a visual representation of modern commodities, you can jazz his picture up and turn it into an art form following the pop art style. Simply choose a soft copy of a picture with him in it, and then use a graphics software in outlining his facial features.
Try tracing only the most dominant features. For nose, tracing the nostrils will be enough. Place importance on the iris when drawing the eyes. After tracing, you put color in the picture as well as detail until complete.
You can manipulate the portrait and put a different background. You can also transfer faces onto celebrity bodies for a lighter, funnier style of pop art. Bright colours can be added to the portrait to give it a more lively feel. Putting earth colors would add a warm feeling. By choosing black and white you will gain that classic look.
Pop art portraits are also good for family pictures. Simply use the faces of family to get an instant classic gift.
You can also print your pop artwork into canvas prints to display better. Cost can be controlled by simply choosing canvas dimensions within your budget. You can have the artwork rolled in a tube or stretched over a frame ready to be displayed. Loved ones can be remembered forever in a modern format.
With todays technology, canvas prints can be made at almost any size. Not only that, you can get your pop art portraits in canvas print in not months but days. Modern large format printers make the job easier while producing outstanding colour and quality.
Pop art porttraits are not only gift ideas but can be used for any kind of greeting card or collage. There are no limits to the uses and making them is simple and fun.
MattsCanvas with over over 15 years experience, offers quality Canvas Prints, Photos on Canvas and Pop Art Portraits.
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