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

Kim Mailhot said…
Cool knock-offs ! Imagine having large paintings of your own face in bizarre colors on your livingroom wall ? You must have to have a bigger than life ego...or really, really love yourself, I guess ! ;-)

Happy Sp Wednesday !
Izzy said…
Oh, that's so much fun... love it.
Meri said…
It was fun. And I wish I could remember what filter in Photoshop or Digital Image Pro I used to translate the original photo into the line drawing It's driving me crazy!
Delwyn said…
These are great Meri,

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
Andy Warhol would be proud. He would have also be lucky to have you as a model.
rebecca said…
yummy!
you are...
Anonymous said…
looks great! i hate taking passport photos. always end up looking puffed up (mind you, that's probably how i normally look! the passport photos just let me see what others see all the time)
deb did it said…
Hey Meri! what a blast! Love the fun fotos! and better yet...LOVE THE NEW DO! spunky and spicy!
beth said…
love the look and your creativity !!!

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 !!!
Karen Cole said…
Oh boy, do I need to learn how to use photoshop!!!! This is awesome!

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.
Meri said…
Karen:
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!
Meri said…
I found this website http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/warhol-pop-art-silkscreen.html
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.

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