How to Make Andy Warhol Pop Art with Paint.NET
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Create a Pop Art Picture in the Style of Andy Warhol
Students create an Andy Warhol inspired pop art portrait of themselves with Paint.NET, a free photo editing and paint program. The steps and techniques used here are simple but the results are still quite good. This lesson is a good illustration of the use of layers in graphics applications.
Students can take headshots of themselves with a webcam or digital camera. It may be helpful if the pictures have been reduced in size and cropped before starting this activity.
Grade 3 and up
Andy Warhol Pop Art Video Tutorial:
Finished Example:
Step One:
In Paint.NET open a new file (File > New) and set the width to 800 pixels and the height to 800 pixels.
Step Two:
Import your headshot picture into Paint.NET.
Step Three:
Choose colors from the color palette and color the background and clothing with the bucket fill tool.
Step Four:
Make a copy of the colored picture. Later, you will be using this copy to help make the other three pictures. Edit > Copy.
Step Five:
Change the Hue and Saturation to change all the colors.
Adjustments > Hue / Saturation.
Step Six:
Paste that picture you copied earlier in step four into a new layer, and then slide the pasted picture over to the right.
Edit > Paste in to New Layer.
Step Seven:
Change the Hue and Saturation of the pasted picture.
Adjustments > Hue / Saturation.
Step Eight:
Paste that picture you copied earlier into a new layer, and then slide the pasted picture down under the first picture.
Edit > Paste in to New Layer.
Step Nine:
Change the Hue and Saturation of the pasted picture.
Adjustments > Hue / Saturation.
Step Ten:
Paste that picture you copied earlier into a new layer, and then slide the pasted picture down under the second picture.
Edit > Paste in to New Layer.
Step Eleven:
Change the Hue and Saturation of the pasted picture.
Adjustments > Hue / Saturation.
Step Twelve:
Crop picture as necessary to remove all the white space.
Done!