Silver & black butterfly

Description

Graphic butterfly print, silver and white ink printed on black matt card. Limited edition of 30.

Print dimensions: 29 x 39cm, paper size: 40 x 50cm. Will fit a standard 40 x 50cm frame. Please note that this print is sold unframed. Postage added at checkout.

What is a Silkscreen Printing, or serigraphy?

Interestingly, the Word Serigraph is a combination of two Greek words, seicos, meaning silk, and graphos, meaning writing. Silkscreen Printing and other stencil-based printing methods are the oldest forms of printmaking. Printmaking is a process for producing editions (multiple originals) of artwork as opposed to painting, which produces a single original piece of artwork. In printmaking, each print in an edition is considered an original work of art, not a copy.

It is a stencilling method that involves printing ink through stencils that are supported by a porous fabric mesh stretched across a screen. One screen is used per colour. The basic printing process is the forcing of ink through a stencil onto paper, “pulling, with a squeegee. Each colour must be printed in the same place and in the same order for each print to resemble the original. Part of the process is separating the image into different colours – one for each screen – and have an order in which they are laid on top of each other.The screen printer pulls ink across the printing frame, which has been placed above a sheet of paper that will hold the art work. The ink is then forced through the screen and onto the paper below.

This process is repeated on all sheets of the edition, and then the stencil is destroyed. After the set number of editions have been sold there will be no more!