Popular Art is an artistic motion that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s, fuelled by the pop culture of the time. To this day, pop culture continues to exist a source of inspiration many artists and illustrators following in the footsteps of the great Pop Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney and more than.

Many artists are attributed to the art motility, from Andy Warhol to Peter Blake, and perhaps unfortunately lesser known Pa uline Boty - l ook her upwards! They shared a mutual interest for colour, humour, politics and, of form, fame. Whether they had it themselves or used it in their work, it certainly made for an assault on the art globe at the time.

Pop Art is created using colours and shapes and quite often, repetition. From collage to printmaking – it can be a really easy style to pick upward when creating your own inspired artwork. Perhaps this volition assistance you lot see that you don't need to rely on your drawing skills all the time, but  have some fun with the tools you lot find around you. You could make information technology comical like Roy Lichtenstein , or utilise collage like Richard Hamilton, or mayhap utilise your iP advertisement to create like Andy Warhol.

Here, we've demonstrated a couple of ways you can use Pop Art to inspire your ain artwork:

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is famous for his comic-like paintings, using vivid colours, thick lines and dots. First with a simple line drawing of your subject. You could trace a picture or describe your own.

Then using felt tip pens , color in, describe dots or add lines to create different textures. You can experiment with dissimilar colours and patterns, add the dots closer together or lines farther autonomously. It is totally your option.  Bank check out our blog on how to draw zentangles  for more pattern inspo.

Next, taking inspiration from Andy Warhol's iconic tomato plant soup prints - and using the electric current tin c an of option, Broiled Beans, you could  use a couple of free apps to do this with. We used the app P aintwork  to draw the tin can  and add the text, then used the Photo Collage app to duplicate the can to  create an image made upwards of lots of the cans  in rows. Of course, you don't take to draw beans! You lot could choose anything!

Which way of Pop Fine art is your favourite? Possibly a collage inspired by Richard Hamilton would be more your style? Or something more psychedelic like James Rosenquist?