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Pigment ink and acrylic on canvas, 40" x 56", 1993
This portrait of Andy Warhol was part of a series of four portraits of painters (the others being Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso), originally created for an article I wrote in the National Association of Desktop Publishers Journal. This artwork, an example of one of my early digital paintings, was created freehand directly on my first Macintosh, a Macintosh IIfx (20/160), using a Wacom graphics tablet & pressure sensitive stylus, and MicroFrontier/Timeworks Paint-It! software.
I wanted to create a simple, bright, graphical image, reminiscent of Warhol's early screen-print portraits. It seemed appropriate to build on a background formed by a 1960's pop art icon that epitomizes Warhol in many peoples mind, namely the Campbell's soup can. The Paint-It! box say's "You don't have to be an artist to paint like one!", a quote Warhol himself would surely have approved of. This software seemed appropriate for this portrait.
My source photograph was of a young looking Warhol. The photograph was taken by Ken Heyman in 1965, New York City (reproduced in 'Pop Art', author John Rublowski, publisher Basic Books, Inc., 1965). I purchased an authentic Campbell's Tomato soup can and chose the Spray Can with fuzzy edge and maximum flow. I used the Distort option to distort the 'Tomato' above the 'Soup'.
When I'd finished the soup can I then used the Lasso selection tool to repeatedly copy and paste it until I'd filled the entire image with cans. Then I began drawing Warhol's face over the cans, using color combinations based on the way Warhol used complementary and clashing colors to play off one another.
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