My artist is Max Ernst.  My goals for my project are to somehow incorporate Ernst's most influential artistic techniques, decalcomania and frottage, into one complete composition, and to mimic his greatness.  Decalcomania refers to the pressing of a sheet of paper dipped in ink onto another sheet of paper, a surrealist technique which yields unpredictable images.  This technique will be particularly difficult to mimic, since Ernst would do this and then edit the unpredictable image into something substantial.  Frottage, a method developed by Ernst himself, is the rubbing of a pastel or pencil over an uneven surface.  I'd like to incorporate these very difficult techniques into my work even though they seem extremely challenging to do together.  As of now, I do not know which image I will be portraying with my piece, though I may go in blind and see what the outcome is.  Since Ernst was a surrealist, abstractness is very often the theme of his art.  Most of his paintings were on canvas, but since I do not own any canvas, I will be attempting this on my own Bristol paper.  So far I have not made significant progress, besides playing around with the techniques.  My results are very messy and experimental so I would like to not post pictures just yet.