Original Pop Art Oil Paintings
Pop Art Oil Paintings. All Original Oils on Canvas using images from Marvel Comics
Most male artists have a beautiful woman as their inspiration, but my muse was Marvel Comics and especially
the Silver Surfer. In my teenage
years when I wasn’t planning to be the next Lennon & McCartney, I decided to become a great artist. I
hadn’t a clue how to paint, but I went to my local artists shop and got myself an easel, some oil paints
and brushes.
I wanted to take comic book images and turn them into oil paintings. I knew that Roy Lichtenstein was doing the same thing, and making a lot of money, so the market was there. However, whereas the successful Liechtenstein was emphasising the origins of his images by even painting the comic printers colour dots. I wanted to make the 2 dimensional drawings as ‘real’ as possible - (the characters WERE real to me)! Pop Art Oil Paintings
Luckily copying from comics became respectable in the 1960’s with the Pop Art movement taking
images from mass culture and changing their context. Andy Warhol’s ‘Campbells Soup Can’ and
Marilyn Monroe multiple images are famous
examples. Marvel Comics were keen to be associated with such a high profile art movement, and even changed their
name to ‘Marvel Pop Art Productions’ for a short time in the sixties.
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