Shepard Fairey and Obama

With the 2012 USA election just been (marking the beginning of Obama's 2nd term in office and the proof that many Americans do have sense), it seemed rather appropriate that in art I was looking at Shepard Fairey's images from Obama's 2008 election campaign.

Fairey's iconic images caused controversy as the artist lied about the copyrighted image he used and destroyed evidence, he paid his time with community service. However I wanted to look at the iconic image from a technical art point of view and began depicting the image into the many layers to create my own print. Always thinking printing was a quick way to create results, I was shocked to find my self spending hours cutting out tiny and complex pieces from acetate to create my five separate templates for each colour. Although i like my outcome I want to experiment more with colour with the image as well as screen printing.

The first layer onto red paper

My finial outcome