The Lichtenstein Way for Texture
Texture is the way you would imagine the surface of the painting to feel. It is the amount of paint used, using a dry brush, the colors, and using lines that all create the texture of the painting. In the Painting Blam!, there is much texture. In this painting there is an aircraft. The oil paint that Lichtenstein usually always painted with made the aircraft look shiny and smooth. The colors that made it feel and look that way were grays and blacks. He used shadowing to make it look as if it felt smooth. In the middle of the shadowing he would add whites and light grays to make it look as if it was shining where the sun hit it. Sometimes Lichtenstein would make the painting look spotted with little dots to make his painting look as if you were watching his painting through a magnifying glass in a comic book. Lichtenstein had a very different way with texture then many other oil painters.
