Article · Joe MacGown's Art Blog
Surreal Decalcomania
By Joe MacGown
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2013
About this lesson
An independent illustrator documents his own decalcomania process with step photographs: pressing pigment between plastic and paper, pulling the sheets apart, and reading the resulting blots into a finished surreal image.
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