Serigraphs

(Silk Screen Prints)

Charley Harper limited edition serigraph prints are numbered and signed by the artist. The few exceptions are stamped with the studio seal and come with a certificate of authenticity signed by Brett Harper, studio manager and Charley's son.

Screenprinting, silkscreening, or serigraphy is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged image using a stencil. A screenprint or serigraph is an image created using this technique.

A screen is made of a piece of porous, finely woven fabric stretched over a frame of aluminum or wood. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material to form a stencil, which is a negative of the image to be printed; that is, the open spaces are where the ink will appear.

The screen is placed atop a substrate such as papyrus or fabric. Ink is placed on top of the screen, and a fill bar is used to fill the mesh openings with ink. The operator begins with the fill bar at the rear of the screen and behind a reservoir of ink. The operator lifts the screen to prevent contact with the substrate and then using a slight amount of downward force pulls the fill bar to the front of the screen. This effectively fills the mesh openings with ink and moves the ink reservoir to the front of the screen. The operator then uses a rubber blade to move the mesh down to the substrate and pushes the squeegee to the rear of the screen. The ink that is in the mesh opening is transferred by capillary action to the substrate in a controlled and prescribed amount, i.e. the wet ink deposit is equal to the thickness of the stencil. As the rubber blade moves toward the rear of the screen the tension of the mesh pulls the mesh up away from the substrate leaving the ink upon the substrate surface.

source: wikipedia.com

 

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Limited Edition Serigraphs

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Fearless Feathers 1000 S/N Paper Size 20" x 27" Image Size 16" x 23	Price: $135
Flamingo A Go-Go 500 S/N Paper Size 22" x 22" Image Size 18" x 18"	SOLD OUT! Check our Vintage Harper Page
Frog Eat Frog 2500 Paper Size 18" x 18" Image Size 14" x 14"	Price: $150
Furred Feeder 2500 S/N Paper Size: 11" x 30" Image Size: 7" x 28"	Price: $150
	Price: $175   Artist's Proof Price: $195
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Hexit 1500 S/N Paper Size 20" x 20" Image Size 16" x 16"	Price: $300
1500 S/N 25 Artist's Proofs Paper: 22-3/4" x 9-1/8" Image: 19-5/8" x 5-5/8"	SOLD OUT! Check our Vintage Harper Page
	Price: $250
Manatee in the Mangroves 500 S/N Paper Size 15" x 21" Image Size 13" x 19"	Price: $300
	Price: $175
Pfwhooooooo! 2000 S/N Paper Size 15" x 21" Image Size 12" x 17"	< SOLD OUT! Check our Vintage Harper Page
Potluck 1500 S/N Paper Size 10" x 26" Image Size 6" x 22"	Price: $150
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