What does serigraphy, screen printing & Silkscreen mean?
This method is fairly new, a 20th Century development. The screen is generally of silk, stretched taut on a wood or metal frame. After drawing a wax image onto the fine mesh screen the artist coats the material with glue, which is rejected by the wax, but dries to an impermeable finish on the remainder of the mesh. The original wax image is then removed with solvent, which leaves the glue intact and opens the screen beneath the original drawing. When the ink is drawn across the inside of the framework holding the silk by a blade called a squeegee, the color goes through the open areas of the screen and onto the paper underneath. The inks may be transparent or opaque, and the artist can build up an image one color over the other, or he can, in effect, mix his colors by printing one transparent color over another.
