What is a fine art serigraph?
To create a serigraph is an exacting process. Also commonly known as silk screening, serigraphy is a time-honored technique, based on stenciling, for creating prints by hand. Ink or paint is carefully brushed through a fine fabric screen, portions of which have been masked for impermeability. For each color, a different portion of the screen must be masked and each color must be allowed to dry before the next is applied. Masking stencils representing up to 100 individual colors, created by a “chromist,” are embedded into the fabric, and ink is passed through a squeegee on the paper creating a texture on the surface. Serigraphs are best known for rich and vibrant color. Greenwich Workshop creates their serigraphs from the original painting, and the artist can see and adjust the evolution of the colors through many proofing stages. The depth of color in the resulting fine art serigraph is almost luminous. An example is Intimacy by Thomas Blackshear II. More than 120 hand-applied colors w
