One artist drove me to brave card catalogs and explore the dusty aisles of my high school library. I wrangled numerous tomes, then slowly I began to absorb the artwork and words of Roy Lichtenstein. It was then I first caught a glimpse of my future self. A future self that had taken the skills I was just beginning to hone and turned himself into an artist. That meeting shaped many choices in my life that eventually lead me here.
At the time I was so into comic books I practically pictured word balloons above peoples’ heads when they talked. So it’s no coincidence that the first time I saw Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings derived from comic panels that I was immediately transfixed. I didn’t know fine art could be so cool.
Through the years, I have wanted to do a Lichtenstein Ben-Day dot painting and this project was slated to be just that. However, due to limited time, I decided to just spec out the project digitally for a future large painting. Still the process of researching comic panels, sketching them out, scanning them, and digitally painting them has been very rewarding.
This entry is part of 2012’s Project 365 – A Creative Thing a Week.