Quilting Arts

Portraits

POP

ART

by Laurie Ceesay Landree

“Pop Art Caleb” • 18" x 12½ "

I

love the Pop Art Movement with its bright, pure colors

accented with bold black outlines and contemporary style.

I adapt photos to turn them into Pop Art portrait quilt wall

hangings. Using unconventional fabric—especially polka

dots—for the face and other elements harkens to the Ben-Day

dots Roy Lichtenstein used in his comic book-inspired work.

MATERIALS

• Desired portrait photo
  photocopied and enlarged in
  black and white/grayscale


• Medium tip black permanent
  marker


• Lightweight paper


• Lightbox


• Mechanical pencil


• Fat quarter* lightweight muslin


• Paper-backed fusible web (I use
  Pellon® Wonder-Under®.)


• Fat quarter black batik for appliqué


• Fun bright fabrics such as narrow
  stripes, small dot or geometric
  prints, tone-on-tone prints or
  solids


• Fat quarter backing


• Fat quarter batting

• Fat quarter = 18" x 20"

Inspired by Comics

Th e Ben-Day dots printing technique was developed in the late 19th century,

and named after Benjamin Day, a printer and illustrator. Using this method,

colored dots are spaced and overlapped to create color and shading in images.

Lichtenstein used this technique in his popular comic book-inspired paintings.

Ph

ot

os

by

H

or

nic

kR

ivl

in.

co

m^

un

les

s^ o

th

erw

ise

no

ted