PHOTO COLLAGE : AN "ANDY WARHOL" PORTRAIT OF GEORGE CLOONEY !

Andy Warhol ... A brilliant painter !

Andy Warhol was an American artist, the central figure of the Pop Art , of which he is one of the pioneers.

He is well known worldwide for his work as a painter, music producer, author, through his avant-garde films, and his links with intellectuals ...

While Warhol was the subject of countless retrospective exhibitions, books and films since his death in 1987, his work has been controversial.

He is generally recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. 

It was around 1960 that he will start his serigraphs, the Andy Warhol portraits, inspired by American actors: one of his most famous photo montages is undoubtedly the poster made from the photo of Marilyn Monroe ... He start again in 1972 with the series of Mao Zedong ...

But about this page is not writing a biography of Andy Warhol... But to try to imitate Andy Warhol art... Then come on to POP ART ... and George Clooney will be honored here to pose for us ! Thank you George... we recycle !!!

Working on the George Clooney's photo...

You will be working with a picture of George Clooney  just taken before he received a piano on his head (In France, George -with John Malkowitch- is the hero of a TV-Ad where a piano falls from sky on him).

It's better to use pictures with good resolution: 800x918 here.

Launch Photoshop, then open the picture.

Double-click on its the layer and rename it Layer 0.

The first task will be to cut out the George's head ... with the pen tool :

If this tool makes you afraid... Just spend 5 minutes on this small tutorial how to cut out a photo ... the method described is too simple and not difficult and never you forget it !

So select the George's silhouette... Then Ctrl + i to invert selection and delete to leave only the silhouette image and remove the background.

If you are totally resistant to the Photoshop pen tool... you can always take the eraser tool and erase carefully the background of the photo ...

Deselect the outline (Ctrl + D or Select> Deselect).

Apply now the sequence : Image> Adjustments> Threshold.Choose a slider setting for a detailed image but not too dark (here, I took 122) .

Then use the cut out filter by doing : Filter> Artistic> Cut out. This will effectively "clean up" the picture of small parasites traces... You can also clean parts with the "eraser" if you prefer.

It's the end of the first part: save your file as a .psd file... You never know!

Colorization of the image ...

Create 2 new layers and name them color and background color. Place thembelow the layer 0.

Also, switch the layer 0 to multiply mode ...

Click on the Color layer to select it, choose a beautiful rose ... much fleshy and with the brush tool, color the face of the beautiful George ... Try not to spill!

Similarly, you will choose a beautiful yellow ... and, while remaining within the layer color, color hair ... at least the parts that are not already black.

In the portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, had insisted on the eyelids and the mouth of Marilyn : George Clooney, you highlight his key asset : his eyes !

Here I've worked on Layer0 (temporarily disabling calques1 and 2).

For we can not forget them, redraw with a fine brush, in broken white, the cornea. Paint iris with different shades of blue and do not forget to put some flashes of light in the eyes with pure white!

When you're satisfied, you can merge all layers (by Ctrl + E or Layers> Merge). In the Layers window, you only have only one layer with a transparent background.

Create a new layer and drag it below the layer 1.

Select this new layer and with the paint buck, give it a beautiful orange color ... You get the first of four portraits you need...

Save this first image as a .jpg file by running File> Save As ... or Shift + Ctrl + S.

Return to your image, remove the layer 2, create a new one that you fill with blue ... back ... And repeat the process twice more to finally have 4 pictures with different backgrounds.

Andy Warhol photo montage ...

Each pic is 800x918 pixels ... you want to mount 4 arts! So create a new image measuring 1600x1836 px so as to place them.

Open the 4 images.

And with the Move tool, drag each of successively different portraits of George on the new image ... Spread them so they are well juxtaposed ...

Save your work ... You're done

In a new page will appear shortly, I'll teach you how to use these images by transferring them onto a painter canvas... for display at your convenience!

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