POP ART — LICHTENSTEIN BOLD DOTS

VISUAL STYLE: Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art. Comic strip enlarged to gallery scale. Ben-Day dots. Bold black outlines. Primary colours flat and unmodulated. The vernacular of mass culture treated with the seriousness of fine art.

COLOUR PALETTE: Primary and unequivocal. Red, yellow, blue — pure, flat, unshaded. Black for outlines and Ben-Day dot patterns. White for highlight areas and backgrounds. Never more than four colours in a scene.

BEN-DAY DOTS: Areas of colour rendered as a regular grid of coloured dots on white, creating optical colour mixing. The dot pattern is always visible.

LINE: Heavy, confident, black outline around every element. Lines are the same weight regardless of what they're outlining.

FIGURES: Comic book proportions. Slightly exaggerated features. Emotions clear and legible.

SPEECH AND THOUGHT BUBBLES: Used to carry text where needed. The bubble is part of the composition, not an overlay.

No subtlety. No shading. No nuance of colour. Bold, flat, and confident throughout.