Lydia is off having fun in Rome so I'm filling in again today - sorry you'll be fed up of me now!
I've seen lots of pop art stamping on pinterest recently and I've always been a fan so I thought I'd dig out the Warhol within and see what I could do with it. I have to say that my colours are a lot more neon irl but the limitations of computer screens mean its impossible to show them and my little kitty bottom right is all pastel which he so isn't! Anyhow - it's a fun style to play around with and has endless possibilities and is very easy to achieve so I hope you give it a go.
I marked out a piece of white card with a grid big enough to house the kitty from My Lucky Charm and drew light pencil lines to follow for masking. I stamped the kitty into each rectangle and then made a couple of masks of him (you could do it with 1 or cut 6 to do all at once) and masked off one rectangle at a time with the kitty masked too and then used the straight to paper technique with pigment inkpands in really bright colours until I had the backgrounds for each coloured. Remove the masks, and repeat with each until all 6 are coloured.
Once fully dry I coloured each kitty with copics with flat colour - no shading in a Warhol! Using just 2 clashing colours for each. I wish you could see the true colours as its much more vibrant than this shot! This was the painting I used as my inspiration.
Once I'd finished with that I added a sentiment using Scripty Sayings and just extended the swirls freehand to split it over the two lines from edge to edge. A little black panel on the side pulls it all together and highlights the contrasting colours.
We have lots of new stock in store today - Altenew and Mama Elephant and restocks from Waffle Flower.
Tara
I've seen lots of pop art stamping on pinterest recently and I've always been a fan so I thought I'd dig out the Warhol within and see what I could do with it. I have to say that my colours are a lot more neon irl but the limitations of computer screens mean its impossible to show them and my little kitty bottom right is all pastel which he so isn't! Anyhow - it's a fun style to play around with and has endless possibilities and is very easy to achieve so I hope you give it a go.
I marked out a piece of white card with a grid big enough to house the kitty from My Lucky Charm and drew light pencil lines to follow for masking. I stamped the kitty into each rectangle and then made a couple of masks of him (you could do it with 1 or cut 6 to do all at once) and masked off one rectangle at a time with the kitty masked too and then used the straight to paper technique with pigment inkpands in really bright colours until I had the backgrounds for each coloured. Remove the masks, and repeat with each until all 6 are coloured.
Once fully dry I coloured each kitty with copics with flat colour - no shading in a Warhol! Using just 2 clashing colours for each. I wish you could see the true colours as its much more vibrant than this shot! This was the painting I used as my inspiration.
Once I'd finished with that I added a sentiment using Scripty Sayings and just extended the swirls freehand to split it over the two lines from edge to edge. A little black panel on the side pulls it all together and highlights the contrasting colours.
We have lots of new stock in store today - Altenew and Mama Elephant and restocks from Waffle Flower.
Tara
