Andy Warhol Style Self Portrait

        For each of my Pop Art photos, I used analogous colours on the colour wheel because after going through several trial and error photos I was happiest with the result of using similar colours that blended well with each other. I wanted to stick with colors that I associated with Andy Warhol's work and were bright and appealing to the eye. Since I have a big grin on my face, I chose colors that I thought matched the happiness of the image to stick with that feeling. To me these four groups of colors remind me of the 70's and I really liked the turn out.  I started with the last photo, using warm shades of yellow and then adding a pop of red to the lips to make them stand out as a focal point in the image. Then I decided to go to the other side of the spectrum, using cool shades of blue. These two out of the four are my favourite because of how bright they are. In the other two photos I used shades of violet and green because they are secondary colors of blue and yellow and I wanted to incorporate more uses of the color theory into my work. 
     As for how I created these images, instead of taking hours to fill in every detail where the black occupied I used layers to fill that entire section of color and changed certain layers blending modes to lighten. This seemed to work really well to save time and used the same sort of process as Andy Warhol did with Silk Screening.The hair in particular turned out really well by doing this in my opinion, and gave lots of depth that wouldn't of been there if I were to just fill it in piece by piece. 
     I decided to leave the shadowing underneath the lip because personally I like it. Many of Warhol's silk screen portraits included shading and I don't think the shading takes away from my image. Although I did try to remove it, I found the lips to look quite odd so I left it as is. 
   Finally I flipped the image by enlarging the background, merging the layers I used to color the threshold, and flipping the duplicate of the new layer I created. I repeated this process with all four images because that was the way I found to be most consistent so my images were identical apart from color variation. 

Original Photo

     As you can see, a lot of changes were made in the process of this assignment to make this photo into the four final images I have now.