Blotter art is an art form printed on perforated sheets of absorbent blotting paper infused with liquid LSD. The delivery method gained popularity following the banning of the hallucinogen LSD in the late 1960s. The use of graphics on blotter sheets originated as an underground art form in the early 1970s, sometimes to help identify the dosage, maker, or batch of LSD.
Images may be of various sizes but sheets are often 7.5-inch (190 mm)-square and perforated into a 30 by 30 grid. Individual pieces, separated along the perforations, were sold as "hits", with a carefully calculated dosage in micrograms, so users could plan the intensity of their "trip". Blotter art also appears on blotter paper carrying other potent substances, and on undipped (drug-free) sheets.
Blotter art frequently incorporates themes common to psychedelic art, using bright, contrasting colors and repeating patterns in its designs. Cartoon characters were often exhibited, and many examples contain religious and mystical imagery or pay homage to figures in the psychedelia subculture.
Blotter art has been exhibited at art galleries and undipped blotter is often sold online. San Francisco collector Mark McCloud founded the Institute of Illegal Images, which includes over 33,000 sheets of blotter art.
Blotterart is an art form printed on perforated sheets of absorbent blotting paper infused with liquid LSD. The delivery method gained popularity following...
individual doses and artfully decorated with what is known as blotterart. Vanity blotter is blotterart that has not been exposed to LSD and is usually sold as...
art was also applied to the LSD itself. LSD began to be put on blotter paper in the early 1970s and this gave rise to blotterart, a specialized art form...
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of the Flying Fortress. He later provided voices in 2013 as Anvil, Dr. Blotter and Baggy Miner in Ride to Hell: Retribution and as Shizoku, Metal Mutt...
Doig won the first prize at the John Moores exhibition with his painting Blotter. This brought public recognition, cemented in 1994, when he was nominated...
for a drawer with three small separations (one each for the ink pot, the blotter and the powder tray) and storage for pens. The basic desk forms were developed...
grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored...
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have featured his artwork. His images have been printed onto sheets of blotter acid and have been used on flyers to promote Rave events. Grey's artwork...
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(July 2020). "Seattle Police Department Blotter on CHOP Clearance Order". Seattle Police Department Blotter. City of Seattle. Archived from the original...
in candy-colored pink, green, or robin’s-egg blue, like Easter eggs—or blotter acid." This work included the green "Underground" series, which featured...
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the dictation, only for Laura to be identified by material found on her blotter. Germain agrees to sign an order committing Laura as insane; he is called...
and putting them onto windowpane (gel), microdot (tablet), and blotter forms (blotter paper). He spent time in prison for this and became a Buddhist while...
by the rock group Jefferson Airplane). The Cheshire Cat appeared on LSD blotters, as well as in song lyrics and popular fiction. In Disney's 1951 animated...
impression. The paper is carefully peeled off the plate and placed between blotters and weighted so it will dry flat. The plate can now be re-inked for another...
forms asking for ethnic identification. It is also still used for police blotters (the abbreviated Cauc may be heard among police) and appears elsewhere...
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