Few new artistic methods have generated as much curiosity, interest and excitement as the "Water-graph" technique (or Polacolor Transfer). The actual concept was discovered quite by accident in the mid sixties when a Polaroid lab photographer placed a Polacolor negative face down on a counter top and later found a partial image was transferred to the surface of the counter. Experiments with the process were discouraged on an official research level but, over the years, experimenters have dabbled and developed interesting variations on the transfer process theme. The process is capable of producing both fully rendered images with a beautiful softness, as well as partially rendered images reminiscent of ancient frescoes.
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