Takashi Murakami in front of his work. Image via Grailed Image via www.highsnobiety.com
Takashi Murakami is a pop artist from Japan. His artwork is concentrated and it covers a beautiful range of colors. Smiling flowers, blinking eyes, colorful mushrooms are some of the imagery he commonly uses creating an innocent Murakami pop art.
Now, let’s have a go at making your own Murakami style flowers! A picture packed with smiling flowers overlapping each other. The flowers are symmetrical, usually of the same shape but different sizes.
Here they are some more detailed instructions below! Have fun!
- Draw symmetrical flowers. Repeat your motif.
- Sometimes it becomes difficult to repeat the motif. Create different types of flowers. Make it intense, overlapping and smiling. Try to create in your drawing the dense feeling.
- Overlap them. Create flowers of different sizes.
- Play with colors. Use colors that go with each other.
- Fill the entire space of paper by repeating and multiplying your image.
You can also click on Takashi Murakami and watch a video about him and how to make an artwork of Murakami style!
Sources:
www.lilcreativekids.com