Decodrip

Decodrip is an art technique is similar to paper marbling but the painter can use different kinds of paint and admixtures in water so that he can achieve the effect that he wants.
History
The paper marbling technique is used since the 10th century in Eastern Asia and since the 17th in Turkey and Europe, Decodrip being a modern approach to this created in 2009 by Ovidiu Slatineanu a romanian painter form Piatra Neamt, Romania and George Blaga a photographer from the same town joined a year later.
Philosophy
This manner of art expression is based on the idea of minimizing the artist's involvement in creating familiar landscapes, objects or people and rather expressing a feeling by moving a brush or straw (or any other object) through the paint in the water tray and creating random shapes and patterns based on the gestures that the artist makes. The same goes with colors and the amount of them used, for expressing different kinds of attitudes. After the painting is done, it's transferred from the water tray to paper or canvas. After that the painting is photographed at high resolution and the artist can crop an area of his choice and magnify it.
Usually decodrip generated works have small sizes, about 3x5 cm and the images that you can see are in fact macro photos presented to the public as photo prints at 4000 dpi or canvas prints at 2900 dpi.<ref name="decodrip" />
Examples: the Black Rhino image is a painting on it's own, Soundwaves and Ant Princess are cropped and enlarged from other works of art.
Uses
In theory this technique can be used in medicine to test what kind of personality or attitude a person has by letting him/her create a decodrip painting. The idea is that the amount of color used and the gestures that the person embeds in the painting can determine his type of personality.

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