Use the tools and colours to create your own Pop Art picture in the comic book style of Roy Lichtenstein. This project has three types of painting activity:

Copy a Lichtenstein image – Study an original and try to recreate it.

Copy and review a Lichtenstein image – Study an original and try to recreate it, then write an evaluation of your work.

Lichtenstein-style free-painting – Create your own version of a Lichtenstein artwork.

• Roy Lichtenstein was a famous artist in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s in America and Britain.
• Pop Art was concerned with ordinary things and mass production. Comic books were cheap and trashy at the time and therefore a perfect subject for a Pop Artist.
• Lichtenstein was principally influenced by comic strips and the process by which they were coloured. He turned them into art by copying them in paint at a much larger size.
• The colouring process of comics used ‘Ben Day dots’ – regular arrangements of equally sized dots that filled an area. Only 4 colours were used (black, blue, red and yellow). Extra shades could be produced by different sizes and spacing of dots and by overlaying different pattern.