Grid Project

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My grid project is a painting of Mickey Mouse by Andy Warhol. It is acrylic paint on canvas. I used a round paint stamp to stamp each "pixel" with red, black, or beige paint. Originally I was going to do a picture of Weezer's first album cover, but I saw an ad for Mickey Mouse's 90th Birthday Party and they mentioned that Andy Warhol had done a painting of Mickey. I Google image searched "Andy Warhol Mickey Mouse" and sure enough this picture came up.




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