Why not create an Andy Warhol portraits of your family?
Many years ago, I came across Jessica Camis blog Art Smarts 4 Kids on creating Andy Warhol portraits of children. She recommends Photo to Sketch which I have to say is still the best program to use. I made minor changes when I created my son’s portrait. I used 30 precision but used 9 for line. I like seeing my lines thicker. I also put it through Photoshop just to clean up some of the lines. Here you can see the original and the cleaned up version.
We used liquid watercolours because I love them. You can use pencil crayons, markers or regular watercolours. Use 4 colours and alternate the colours between hair, face, background, shirt. My daughter left the neck, eyes and lips white. I tell children to begin with one colour. Colour in this order: face, hair, shirt, background .
Keep the images in order. Start with colour one and paint face of image one. Continue in order of face, hair, background, shirt. Take colour 2 and paint image two’s face next and then hair of image 3, background of image 4 and shirt of image 1 etc.
Then I scanned each one and made them into one image. If there are four people in your family, you can do a sketch of each person or you can create one with four people.
If you do create one, I would love to see it. Post it on our Facebook page.