Learn Max Ernst's "frottage" painting technique

Rassouli demonstrates Frottage, a technique that Max Ernst started using in his work around 1925. The word "frotter" in French means “to rub”. Frottage technique is about laying a piece of paper, or canvas on a structured surface and making a rubbing of its texture with a pencil or paint bar. You can use wood boards, utilized textures from leaves, bark, thread, straw, textiles, netting, and dried paint as the starting point of frottage technique. Shift the paper regularly while rubbing. You can then take the structures that emerge, scrape some of the thick paint by a palette-knife, and transform the image into fantastic artwork. For more information, contact : [email protected]