A serigraph can most easily be defined as a silk-screen or screen-print, albeit a very sophisticated and labor intensive one. Using the original artwork as the master guide, each color is carefully hand separated into individual elements and burned onto separate screens. The serigraph is then created by screening each color, one by one, onto the substrate (i.e. paper, canvas, etc.) thereby layering all the colors into their proper locations, pass by pass, through a process of physically pushing the ink through the openings in each of the color screens, ultimately combining to build the final image.
It is a painstaking, labor intensive and very precise technique, both in the color separating process and in the ability to keep all the screens in proper “registration” with one another throughout the lengthy process of laying down so many individual colors during multiple screen passes.
Considered a “traditional” printmaking technique because it is an analog process, serigraphy does not traditionally employ the use of a computer, but rather the careful artistic eye and technique of a master printer and color separator.
All Cyclops Print Works serigraphs (and all other print mediums that we publish, for that matter) are printed at Eclipse Workshop, Collectors Editions’ in-house production arm. These prints are all created under the watchful eye of two of the art industry’s leading print experts: Tim Dickson — who for over 25 years has perfected the craft of fine art print making – and Carlos Alvarado – who has been one of the primary printers of SHAG’s (Josh Agle) work for over a decade.