Me & Andy Warhol Knock-offs
Having just having peeked in on Misty's site,
after realizing that it's Wednesday,
I found that yes indeed
it's another self-portrait day.
Hmm.
What shall I do?
I don't want to take a picture of myself
today, even though
I have a new short layered hairdo,
a huge departure from the shoulder-length plus style
I wore until last Friday afternoon.
it's raining
I don't have an interesting mirror
whine
whine
whine
So I'm posting a portrait
that didn't start out
as a self-portrait.
I needed a new passport
a few moons ago and thus
a new passport photo
so I smiled
for the camera
and hoped I didn't look
like a total dork.
Afterwards
I took one of the spares
and scanned it
and transformed it into
a self-portrait,
with more than a nod
to the example/genius
of Andy Warhol
and the pop art era.
Yup.
Me and Marilyn Monroe
and a soup can.
Me.
Immortalized.
Just like Marilyn Monroe.
How do you poke fun at yourself?
Comments
Happy Sp Wednesday !
Is your hair cut like this again now?
I make a fool of myself a few times a week doing my body balance routines which include tai chi - the routines are always changing so I am swanning around all over the place looking like the ugly duckling....very ungainly, but you know what...I don't really care...I used to , but now these things don't worry me...
Lovely pics Meri
Happy snapping days
you are...
to answer your question...I knew what I wanted for this past spc, but couldn't get my tripod to work around the railings of our deck...so YES...in stepped my fabulous hubby to the rescue....I told him what I was looking for and he was terrific to say the least to play along with my craziness !!!
I'd blow it up, paint some acrylic medium on it....lots of heavy brush strokes, let it dry and viola......it's a painting....or, just leave it here and we can all admire it.
I spent about two hours today and this evening trying to reconstruct my process in taking that photo from original to "Andy Warhol." I cannot figure out for the life of me how I did it. If there's anyone out there who is a better Photoshop user than I am (which is about the whole universe), can you reconstruct the process and tell us all step-by-step?
Thanks!
that can get us pretty close to what I did, but I can guarantee you that my process didn't use layers. It just confuses me to do layers, so I suspect I either stumbled on to something simpler or I used Microsoft Digital Image Pro to combine things since it's more intuitive to use.
The website has a step-by-step that makes it look pretty foolproof to follow.
Maybe we need to have a "pop art self portrait" challenge where we all follow the instructions and see what we get.