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“Oh, Honey” is inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, the pop art movement, and a song my 15 year old cousin wrote.This piece was created using acrylic paint and canvas board. It was mainly inspired by my cousin song (lyrics below), she's 15 and her song talks about heartbreak and I choose Roy Lichtenstein and pop art to also inspire my piece because both the artist and the movement exaggerated emotion,color and much more. I wanted to demonstrate the idea of young love and the exaggeration of heartbreak.
Oh, honey lyrics:
Style your hair in the way no one has ever seen
drink your tea don't you worry about me
oh honey I've been schooled ever since I met you
I've become the biggest fool out of fear of losing your
Oh, honey you don't need to buy me flowers you don't need to buy me chocolates
Oh, honey all you need to do is hug me,
All you need to do is love me and tell me
that you'll be there
Even when you are in a hurry
even if I tell you not to worry
even if it's to tell me you no longer love me
and then I'll style my hair in a way everyone has seen
I'll drink my tears instead of tea
But still don't you worry about me
Style your hair in the way no one has ever seen
drink your tea don't you worry about me
oh honey I've been schooled ever since I met you
I've become the biggest fool out of fear of losing your
Oh, honey you don't need to buy me flowers you don't need to buy me chocolates
Oh, honey all you need to do is hug me,
All you need to do is love me and tell me
that you'll be there
Even when you are in a hurry
even if I tell you not to worry
even if it's to tell me you no longer love me
and then I'll style my hair in a way everyone has seen
I'll drink my tears instead of tea
But still don't you worry about me
Artist Inspiration:Citations:
-The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Roy Lichtenstein.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, inc., 22 Feb. 2016, www.britannica.com/biography/Roy-Lichtenstein. -“Roy Lichtenstein.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 2 Apr. 2014, www.biography.com/people/roy-lichtenstein-9381678. |
Planning:
This final sketch was going to be my final piece but I decided to create the painting instead. This was a water color, i choose to do water color at first because lichtenstein's early work was done using water color. For this piece the main point was to let the setting tell the story instead of a person's emotions telling the story.
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Process:
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Critique:
Experimentation:
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For experimentation I had to choose from multiple pictures that I was sent. I wasn't able to take the pictures myself so it was difficult to instruct my cousin to pose the way I wanted. I had to instruct her through text message. Another experimental process I had to go thought was find the right skin tone. It is very difficult to find the right match and I generally struggle to create skin tone. I had to make sure the skin tone didn't turn to dark nor to light.
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Reflection:
Over all this projects was really fun to create. It was interesting listening to my cousins song and creating a visual in my head about what she meant to talk about which was love and heartbreak. It was simple for me to pick my artist inspiration and art movement inspiration because a lot of Roy Lichtenstein's paintings represent in my opinion the meaning/theme of heartbreak and the pop art movement demonstrates the idea or theme of over exaggerating whether it be in color, repetition,and line. I also choose this artist because what my cousins song is all about is heartbreak and she's 15 which in my opinion at that age a girl shouldn't be focusing on love and should be focused on her education.
Something I feel like I would change if I were to re create this whole project all over again would be to demonstrate more exaggeration whether it be on my cousins face or even the setting around her.I would even add dots on the canvas which is something that is well known in pop art. Overall I decided to go with a different approach from the three beginning sketches. I decided to incorporate a bit from each sketch into my final piece. I wanted to incorporate the tea and tea cup in my piece because a line in my cousins song states “I'll drink my tears instead of tea”, so I painted that to represent that line. Something that I would probably change as well would be to make it seem like she’s actually pouring her “tears” into the teacup. Another reason why I added the tea and tea cup is due to how now a days when teens talk about drama they call it “tea”, i'm not sure why we call it that but when someone has drama they want to talk about we call it spilling the tea. Something else that I would've done differently would have to be to add a honey jar in my final piece I feel like if I were to add the honey jar it would've added more exaggeration.
Something that I've noticed in Lichtensteins art is that the way he demonstrates over exaggeration is by the emotion demonstrated on the person's face and mostly by the setting or action of the person.Something he also does is add speech bubbles giving the painting a whole other meaning or adds to the meaning. The way I decided to demonstrate exaggeration was by using the speech bubble, and adding the one phrase that explains in my opinion the whole song and the painting itself. I also decided to create thick black lines which is something else similar to what Lichtenstein does.The main reason on why I choose the phrase “oh,honey” was because as my cousin was singing her song she asked me to think of a title for her song and I came up with oh honey because it showed up multiple times in the song. I incorporated this into my piece by having my cousin saying it through the phone as she’s talking to the person she wrote the song about. For this piece I also decided to use a mix of warm and cool colors as supposed to primary colors because I wanted to give a soft tone to a exaggerating meaning. Roy Lichtenstein uses primarily primary colors in all of his art works, I feel like it's because color really emphasizes emotion in a piece. The emphasize of emotion is something that both pop art and Lichtenstein achieve when they use color, facial expression and so on and that's why I wanted to do as well in my whole piece.
Something I feel like I would change if I were to re create this whole project all over again would be to demonstrate more exaggeration whether it be on my cousins face or even the setting around her.I would even add dots on the canvas which is something that is well known in pop art. Overall I decided to go with a different approach from the three beginning sketches. I decided to incorporate a bit from each sketch into my final piece. I wanted to incorporate the tea and tea cup in my piece because a line in my cousins song states “I'll drink my tears instead of tea”, so I painted that to represent that line. Something that I would probably change as well would be to make it seem like she’s actually pouring her “tears” into the teacup. Another reason why I added the tea and tea cup is due to how now a days when teens talk about drama they call it “tea”, i'm not sure why we call it that but when someone has drama they want to talk about we call it spilling the tea. Something else that I would've done differently would have to be to add a honey jar in my final piece I feel like if I were to add the honey jar it would've added more exaggeration.
Something that I've noticed in Lichtensteins art is that the way he demonstrates over exaggeration is by the emotion demonstrated on the person's face and mostly by the setting or action of the person.Something he also does is add speech bubbles giving the painting a whole other meaning or adds to the meaning. The way I decided to demonstrate exaggeration was by using the speech bubble, and adding the one phrase that explains in my opinion the whole song and the painting itself. I also decided to create thick black lines which is something else similar to what Lichtenstein does.The main reason on why I choose the phrase “oh,honey” was because as my cousin was singing her song she asked me to think of a title for her song and I came up with oh honey because it showed up multiple times in the song. I incorporated this into my piece by having my cousin saying it through the phone as she’s talking to the person she wrote the song about. For this piece I also decided to use a mix of warm and cool colors as supposed to primary colors because I wanted to give a soft tone to a exaggerating meaning. Roy Lichtenstein uses primarily primary colors in all of his art works, I feel like it's because color really emphasizes emotion in a piece. The emphasize of emotion is something that both pop art and Lichtenstein achieve when they use color, facial expression and so on and that's why I wanted to do as well in my whole piece.
ACT Connection:
1- A way you can identify the cause and effect relationship between my piece and Roy Lichtenstein art work is the way color plays a role in the piece as well as similar aspects such as the speech bubble and so on.
2-The overall approach was to inform the viewer about Roy Lichtensteins art work and techniques he would use in his pieces.
3- The overall conclusion people came up with was that color has a great impact in conveying emotion.
4-The central idea was the idea of young love and heartbreak.
5-The conclusion I came up with was that color plays a huge role in emphasizing emotion in art in general.
2-The overall approach was to inform the viewer about Roy Lichtensteins art work and techniques he would use in his pieces.
3- The overall conclusion people came up with was that color has a great impact in conveying emotion.
4-The central idea was the idea of young love and heartbreak.
5-The conclusion I came up with was that color plays a huge role in emphasizing emotion in art in general.