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Decalcomania Painting

By David Dunlop

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2017
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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.