Artist: Jasper Johns

You are going to create your own Jasper Johns style picture using these step by step slides.

This is designed to be a full page picture you can do it A4 or A3 or whatever size paper you have available to you.

You can use paint or pencil or pastel or pen –Whatever media you have available.

Step 1 – Draw a Letter or number in bubble writing that fills the page. You could copy a font from your computer to help. Outline it in black biro or black pen – whatever you have.

A bit hard to see but this is the sketch in pencil first before I went over it in pen.

Notice how it is quite large and fills most of the page.

Step 2 – Now draw a different letter or number over the top, the same size in a different font if you can. Outline in Pen again.

See how I had a go at using different fonts. This is the number 3 and letter T.

Be aware it starts to get harder the more letters or numbers you add the harder it gets this is because you have lots of lines so its easy to get confused. That’s why it is a good idea to outlineeach one in pen as you go.

Step 3 – Repeat the previous step so you have a minimum of 4 (more if you like) letters or numbers on top of each other in different fonts outlined in black biro.

I added the letter Z

I added the letter W

I added the number 6

Step 4 – Add some extra lines to break up the background a little.

See how I just carried on with some of the lines from some of the letters across the back ground. You only need a few.

Step 5 – Select 4 or 5 colours only, colour each of the sections.

You can use pencils especially if you have H, F, B’s from B to B9, colour pencils, water colour, acrylic paints, pastels, any media of your choice. Here you can see where I have added some white into the yellow to break it up a bit and keep in the same style as Jasper Johns

Try blending some of the boxes together to keep it in the style of Jasper Johns. See how this has been done above.

You can blend some shapes together, and leave other shapes as solid colour.

Jasper Johns version My version