In one instance, a chemist who went by "Bill" used the Saturday Night Live character Mr. LSD is sometimes branded under a particular name, and individual producers may use blotter art designs, which serve as a sort of calling card. Drug Enforcement Administration depicted the Robert Crumb character Mr. As designs became more creative, blotter art became a folk and underground art form, drawing on an art vocabulary borrowed from psychedelic art and underground comix. Designs printed on blotter paper can serve to identify dosage strengths, different batches, or makers. Symbolic pictures were sometimes added to indicate the origin of the LSD. The production of blotter acid with graphics started as early as 1970. Blotter designs as art Blotter art reproducing The Garden of Earthly Delights Later blotter art existed independent of LSD production. By the end of the decade, blotter had become the standard medium for distribution.
Due to these factors, acid producers largely switched to blotter paper which had the advantage of being easily sent through the mail. Īside from the legal ramifications, a machinist who had built specialized pill presses for the underground in the United States died in the late 1970s. The vastly disparate penalties for possessing LSD affected the choice of medium for the acid-taking community. United States, the court found that Congress had intended to include the weight of the carrier medium for LSD in its sentencing guidelines, regardless of whether it was in liquid form, on blotting paper, or the much heavier sugar cubes. In the United States Supreme Court case Chapman v. After LSD became illegal, first in California in 1966, the use of blotter paper as a medium became more common. History LSD and blotting paper Įarly in its history, LSD was distributed in liquid form, sometimes applied to sugar cubes, or in pills, capsules, or gelatin "window panes".
San Francisco collector Mark McCloud founded the Institute of Illegal Images, which includes over 33,000 sheets of blotter art. Blotter art has been exhibited at art galleries and undipped blotter is often sold online. Blotter art also appears on blotter paper carrying other potent substances and on undipped (drug-free) sheets.
Blotter art may be of various sizes but sheets are often 7.5-inch (190 mm)-square and perforated into a 30 by 30 grid. Blotter art often depicts cartoon characters, and many examples contain religious and mystical imagery or pay homage to figures in the psychedelia subculture. 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.īlotter art frequently incorporates themes common to psychedelic art, using bright, contrasting colors and repeating patterns in its designs. Perforated, absorbent blotting paper is typically infused with liquid LSD, a delivery method that gained popularity following the banning of the substance in the late 1960s. Art form on the medium of LSD blotter paper A 5x5 square of blotter art with a theme commemorating LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann's fateful "Bicycle Day" in 1943.īlotter art is an art form printed on sheets of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
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