The lines and shapes are mostly curvy lines and curvy shapes like the hair and the features of the face. The round shapes being used in his famous artwork is kind of moon shape hair. The colours and tones are common, plain colours. I find there is no tone used in the image like the hair, in the skin and the outline of the person’s face and hair. I can also see textures and patterns that are quite unique and comic style patterns such as the polka dot skin and the outline of the hair. The patterns used in the images are symmetrical dots to create the more comic-style book image.
The materials that can been used to create the piece of art are paint- to colour the image, cotton buds- to create polka dot skin, paintbrush- to create different thickness of the outline of the artwork. The technique for these materials is steady hands to create neat of the paintwork and the symmetrical lines of the polka dots in the face. Another techniques been used is using different size paintbrushes to create thin to thick outlines in the artwork.
The artist produced this work because it excreted the edges between high and low art. It confronted institutional art with everyday endless objects which gained, displayed as art, a new quality. “Abstract Expressionism” is where you express your feelings towards art especially abstract. I think the artist was feeling expressive when he produced the work because he expresses his feeling towards art when he produced “the Girl with Hair Ribbon”. I think the work is a big statement because although he expresses his feelings towards the painting, he clearly made the image as a statement and not personal thing for him.
Before I started looking closely at this picture, I thought that Roy didn’t used Benday dots as it quite small, so you can’t really tell if it’s plain or benday dots. Now I have looked more closely, I think it’s quite interesting to use benday dots as skin because I never thought I could do benday dots as skin tone and before, I never know benday dots. Looking at this artist has shown me you can easily create your own comic-style image without using technologies. The most important part of this work to me is the used of benday dots- you need precise hand to create symmetrical benday dots and it’s quite difficult to handle symmetrical dots.
The similarities between the two pictures are the used of benday dots and the hair outline are exactly the same. The differences between the two pictures are the expression on the girl’s face and there are more items used on the other artwork. The picture I find the most useful is the benday dots because not only it looks cool but save time and paint.