Pop Art Portraits – From Photo to Art

Pop Art Portraits are hip art forms especially for your loved ones. Your friends will indeed be impressed by the unusual gift of a pop art portrait. A pop-art portrait is a personal gift your friends will surely treasure for the rest of their lives. Giving gifts today no longer requires you to spend lots of money. Creativity is all that is needed and experiment.

Pop art became an art movement of the 20th century. Pop art is basically the isolation of a visual representation of modern commodities. The artist can add expression to give the portrait a different meaning to the original image. Marilyn Monroe for example, (the visual commodity) is made into a pop art portrait. The artist would then use various colours or design to improve the background.

Even though your friend is not a celebrity, you can still convert their photo to pop art easily. Simply choose a soft copy of a picture with him in it, and then use a graphics software in outlining his facial features.

It really only requires tracing of the facial features. For nose, tracing the nostrils will be enough. For the eyes, the iris is the most important. After tracing, you put color in the picture as well as detail until complete.

You can manipulate the portrait and put a different background. You can also transfer faces onto celebrity bodies for a lighter, funnier style of pop art. For a lively feel, you can color the portrait with pastel shades. Putting earth colors would add a warm feeling. You can also go for a classic feel and just choose plain black and white.

Pop art portraits are also good for family pictures. Simply use the faces of family to get an instant classic gift.

You can also print your pop artwork into canvas prints to display better. You can customize the size of canvas and you will give a genuine art form with less money to burn. You can ask the canvas to be stretched, gallery-wrapped or framed. Imagine your friends, parents, and children remembering you every time they see the portrait.

With todays technology, canvas prints can be made at almost any size. Within days your artwork can be produced and dispatched to your door. Canvas prints are made easier with the advancement of todays large format printers.

Not only as a gift, pop art portraits can be used for logos, greeting cards, or even collage. The uses are limitless and you will see that making them is plain cool and simple.

MattsCanvas with over over 15 years experience, offers quality Canvas Prints, Photos on Canvas and Pop Art Portraits.