Andy Warhol, an American artist who worked within the pop movement, making use from popular and mass cultures such as cultural objects, celebrities, comic books and advertising. Warhol was the one who really shaped the pop art movement.

Within Warhol's work there is the correlation between artist expression, advertising and celebrity culture.

Warhol uses the techniques of screen printing/silk screening which is the use of using a photograph put onto a screen and making different prints from it. Either using a single print, or multiple screens which you can create layers with as Warhol did which you can see in his work from Marilyn Monroe.

Warhol's work is presented as bright and bold and experiments a lot with his work and he worked with advertising, and so  working with a different variety of medias aswell as screen printing he worked with sculptures, photography which can be seen in the screen printing and working with photographs, painting and film. His work became more known after Warhol's work had been exhibited in a few galleries being presented as a controversial and influential artist. The reason to using bright colours, was also to attract people to the work itself and wanting it to be quite unrealistic and vivid.

The first works of Marilyn Monroe started soon after she died of drug overdose using layering methods in the sreen prints and adding different colours using this to depict her in a way, using these contrasting colours to show the contrast between her private life and her as a public figure although that was not the original intention.

Although screen printing is seen as more of a method towards graphic design and advertising etc. it can be used in photography and I want to experiment with it to see how it would fit into my work and see the different colours and how they would work with each other. For my photograph I choose to use, I will most probably just use one layer.

To make the screens, you need a black and white contrasting image so that when you print there is a contrast big enough between the shadows and highlights.

Here, I selected my image and using the curves and adjustment features on photoshop, I edited the image so that it is highly contrasting. On the second one, I added a colour halftone on the number 8 which is big enough to be seen on the screen itself when printed.

For this, I'm going to experiment a bit more with colour and different textures as I shoot in black and white, but in this I want to be a bit more experimental within my work and try things out to see what works and what doesn't and how it works in relation to my project and how I can develop from this.