Pop Of Kayden

      My final art piece was pop art. When I think of pop art, bright colors and comic books come to my mind. I also think of the photo booth application on my MacBook where one of the effects is Pop Art. This effect splits the screen up into four sections, each with three different colors. It is the same picture but just different colors. This became my inspiration for my final piece of art.   

I took a photo that I took of Kayden and used a photo editing application to apply a pop art effect to the images. I sent those to the store to be printed. I chose to use the letter K since my nephew’s name is Kayden. I figured that this would be something he could hang in his bedroom. Once I got my photos and my canvas letter K, it was time to start designing.

I decided that since my photo booth application’s Pop Art effect was four images perfectly straight that I wanted Kayden’s photos to be straight on the K. I laid them on the K, and when I was happy, I glued them down.  

From here I decided that I wanted to write his name in the center. I chose to write it in bubble letters because when I think of pop art, comic books come to my mind. I chose to write his name like comic books would write BANG or BAM or something like that. I decided to draw a cloud around it because comic books tend to do things like that. From there I decided to draw weird spike things coming from each picture. I think again that this idea came from comic books. I chose to use sharpies because I thought they would color nicely and were very vibrant like pop art. I added a bunch of dots in the background to give it a little bit more of a pop because pop art is not plain. Once I was done drawing with my Sharpies, I trimmed my photos and used Modge Podge to seal my entire piece of art.

Overall, I am extremely happy with my project. At first I was just going to take Kayden’s photos and make them larger and just glue them down on the K, but I am really glad that I didn’t. I think that by drawing it myself, it made it more personal. Plus I think it is much more exciting like this than it would have been if I only had photos. When I put the Modge Podge on, it started smearing the Sharpies, and I was a little bit upset because the background was no longer perfectly white like I wanted. However, after looking at it some more, I am really glad that the Sharpie smeared. I think it gave the K a little more pizazz. I cannot wait to give it to him to see if he likes it as much as I do.

"Speed Drawing of Batman" - Jasmina Suzak

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