Decalcomania technique work

During lesson we used paint on plastic boards to try and create the decalcomania technique. By placing different paints on the board and mixing them to create different colours I then placed pieces of paper for a few seconds and peeled it off causing different patterns. I will work into some of these patterns.

 

This is one of the scans. The way the paint stuck to the paper has caused a snake like pattern to appear. I decided to open it up in Photoshop and draw an outline of the shape which I will then work over. This is the outline without the picture. You can clearly see the snake's head and mouth shape.












This is the snake completed as an abstract piece. I decided to stick to the purple colours and colour each empty space and painted space. The very light purple is where the white spaces where and the darker shades of purple are from the paint colour. This took me around 3 hours to do as it required me to paint each section, go over the gaps and fix any mistakes, to then fade it a little and go over areas that required detail.

Art Movement: Surrealism artists

Here are some surrealism artists, I have chosen these 3 images to look at.

Salvador Dali 'Sleep'

I quite like this painting by Salvador. The face is being help up by wooden crutches, it also looks as if its just balanced right and any movement will cause it to fall and wake the face up. The background is quite barren apart from a temple looking building on the far right. This gives a hint that this is drawn in the dream, that it is not real.

Giorgio de Chirico 'Melancholia'

Max Ernst 'Europe after the Rain II' Decalcomania technique

This is a Decalcomania technique. Paint is placed on a board of some sort with some water, you mix the paint and water around and place a piece of paper down then peel it off. It leaves a paint mark that you are able to work into with paint brushes or pens / pencils. This was created using this technique. I quite like the look of this and it does look like the buildings have been eroded away after the rain, part of the buildings are slumped or not there to show the damage. I have also tried this technique with my own work.