Article · Painting Class with David Dunlop
Decalcomania Painting
By David Dunlop
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2017
About this lesson
Explains Max Ernst's decalcomania process of pressing a painted panel against another surface and pulling it apart, then shows how to read and rework the resulting textures into a finished image. Illustrated with Ernst examples and the author's own panels at before-transfer, after-transfer and finished stages.
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