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Polka Dot Pop Art

Love Acrylics

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/polka-dot-pop-art • Posted by Search Press

Inspired by comic strips and everyday life, this form of pop art is done in flat colour 
and inlaid with tiny dots, depicting trite scenes from your life in a satirical manner and bringing them to life in a new way through art.

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

0 h 30

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
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Description

Inspired by comic strips and everyday life, this form of pop art is done in flat colour 
and inlaid with tiny dots, depicting trite scenes from your life in a satirical manner and bringing them to life in a new way through art.

Instructions

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    Trace around your hand with a pencil.

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    Add any other details you want to include in your composition, such as nail polish bottles and puddles 
of paint.

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    Paint in flat layers and leave to dry.

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    Once dry, decide what colour dots your surface needs. You want to layer the colours so that they read as one from a distance. For example, to create skin tones, layer different shades of warm colours – peach paint with red-brown dots – to ‘read’ as tan.