Paint your own pictures for the youth room

What you need:

• Stretcher frame covered with canvas
• Photographs
• Acrylics
• Textile printing film

Bring Pop Art into the youth room

One of Andy Warhol's most famous pictures is the extensively reproduced Marilyn Monroe. You can imitate this image, for example, with a photo of the teenager whose teenage room is to be decorated.

1. Edit the portrait photo in an image editing program so that only the contours of the face are recognizable. The artistic filters such as cartoon or photocopy can be used well for this. Experiment a little to find the right result.
2. Then lower the color saturation to get a black and white preprint.
3. Print out the contours several times in the appropriate size. At least six faces should fit on a canvas.
4. Iron the film onto the canvas at regular intervals.
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5. Fill in the fields created by the contours in brightly colored Colours the end.
6. If necessary, then draw the black lines again so that they can be seen clearly.

Imitate more pictures of Warhol

• Another important motif of the Pop Art artist is the can of the Campbells Soup. Warhol painted numerous pictures of this can to show that in modern times art is actually no longer possible through reproductions.
• With this in mind, you can basically decorate the youth room with any branded product. As long as you get the pictures onto the canvas in some way, you have correctly implemented Andy Warhol's style.
• But they shouldn't go quite as far as the artist himself, who in the course of his career also turned photographs of car accidents into art.
• Andy Warhol's style can also be easily copied with motifs that are less suitable for him, because the painter was known for sloppy paint application and bright colors. These are easier to imitate than high-quality craftsmanship.