"Upon the Light-keeper's House"
artist hand-pulled serigraph - © Bruce A. Morrison
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This week's print is a little different - it is a serigraph. "Serigraph" is the fine arts term for "screen print" or "silkscreen print". Silkscreening was a common commercial mode of printing signs and posters back in the early half of the 20th century. When artists began to adopt this printing method, they didn't want their work confused with commercial sign making so coined the term "Serigraph" to differentiate the two.
Serigraphy was one of my minors in art school; it was a very interesting print making process and I enjoyed it a lot. It is also, however, a very lengthy and sometimes difficult process too! If you don't get all the screens registered (aligned) properly - the image becomes blurred looking...kind of like back in the day when the color comics in the Sunday paper would sometimes be out of register, making them harder to look at.
"Upon the Light-keeper's House" is a small 10 color serigraph that I printed myself by hand - one color at a time. There are actually just 9 screens (colors), but I count the white of the paper as another color. Can you pick out the other 9 colors?
This print is of the Light-keeper's house in the harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota...it now serves as the Cook County Museum. The Herring and Ring-billed Gulls always seem to like using it as a perch so they had to be included!
This is a limited edition print with only 120 prints made. The edition is now in very short inventory, having nearly sold out. The image size itself is only 6.5X10" with a border for the signature and edition number.
You can contact me for any prints or visit my website at www.morrisons-studio.com.
Have a great last couple days of July and thank you for stopping by!
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