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All of the serigraphs
are totally hand done; there are no photographic color separations
and no mechanical operations. The serigraph medium has been chosen
because it reproduces brilliant colors and heavily textured brush
work better than other printmaking media. These serigraphs are the
result of the printer's collaboration with the artist in
interpreting the artist's original painting. There may be
variations in color and pattern from the original painting.
Sometimes the artist has made changes from the original painting
because he was not completely satisfied with a particular aspect
of the original and took the opportunity to make the change on the
serigraph.
The
following is a brief description of the process. Each pattern
(color) is first drawn free hand on Mylar with black ink. The
pattern is then transferred to the screen and printed on all sheets
of the paper by the action of a hand-held squeegee which presses the
ink through the open areas of the screen mesh. (The open areas
correspond to the Mylar pattern.) The screen is then cleaned and the
process is repeated for the next color. Each color must be very
carefully lined up (registered) with the first color so the
resulting image is sharp and clear. Both opaque and transparent
colors are used.
Since the
serigraphs are hand pulled, it normally takes the printer and his
assistant three weeks or more, working full time, to print one
edition of 35-40 colors.
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