#Andy warhol silkscreen prints how to#
My goal is to show you how to turn any photographic image into a high-contrast silkscreen rendering, as demonstrated below. (Tho in my defense, I’ve received very positive feedback from cheetahs and house flies.) Which is why I present this article, which you have to be a member to read. My first take on it was dekePod Episode 018: “The Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect.” But it’s possible a couple of you might think that my spirited video explores the topic a little too quickly. But I promised to explore the technique one day, and that one day is now. While screen-printing is arguably the more accurate catch-all term, I use silkscreen because you’re more likely to have a clue what I’m talking about.)Īt the time, my answer was no. Both silkscreens and serigraphs are variants of screen-printing. (Quick note: This depiction of Mao is technically a serigraph. Just look at the sweet puss on that chiquita. (If only because Andy made her look like a drag queen.) So let’s try out something different: Warhol’s take on that beautiful and charming star of the silver screen, Mao Zedong.
By now, we’ve seen enough of Marilyn on this site. By which she meant, the famous series of portraits of Marilyn Monroe. A few months back, a subscriber wrote me to ask if I had documented a way to turn a portrait into an Andy Warhol-style silkscreen effect.
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