This 1971 Italian pop record is adorned with a fine example of post pop/psychedelia artwork that was intentionally designed to reach a younger “hip” audience. Although the content remains fairly tame in comparison… Until giving this record a listen, I expected hearing something like, “The Shocking Blue” or “Vanilla Fudge”. In high school art class we learned to make this style of art. One project I did was a closeup portrait of Joe Namath that won me an award. I’d like to think it was for my art work but I do admit that my teacher was a big time Jet fan. This type of art media is fun and easy to do. All you need (in my case) was an over head projector and a large piece of drawing paper and pencil (of course). While projecting the image on the wall you would hang drawing paper to capture the image. Then you would trace the highlights of the image while keeping in mind that separation is key. After you’ve finished tracing, go over your lines again. Fill with color or shade, both if you prefer. Finally you make a well defined line in between. In the case of this sleeve example, the artist took it even further. The graphics are hand drawn with loosely rounded edges which gives good contrast from the sharpness style of the Lovely lady portrait.
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April 14th, 2010 at 10:55 am
This 1971 Italian pop record is adorned with a fine example of post pop/psychedelia artwork that was intentionally designed to reach a younger “hip” audience. Although the content remains fairly tame in comparison… Until giving this record a listen, I expected hearing something like, “The Shocking Blue” or “Vanilla Fudge”. In high school art class we learned to make this style of art. One project I did was a closeup portrait of Joe Namath that won me an award. I’d like to think it was for my art work but I do admit that my teacher was a big time Jet fan. This type of art media is fun and easy to do. All you need (in my case) was an over head projector and a large piece of drawing paper and pencil (of course). While projecting the image on the wall you would hang drawing paper to capture the image. Then you would trace the highlights of the image while keeping in mind that separation is key. After you’ve finished tracing, go over your lines again. Fill with color or shade, both if you prefer. Finally you make a well defined line in between. In the case of this sleeve example, the artist took it even further. The graphics are hand drawn with loosely rounded edges which gives good contrast from the sharpness style of the Lovely lady portrait.