Serigraphy also known as Screen-printing or silk screening, is a printmaking technique that traditionally creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. A screen print or serigraph is an image created using this technique.

It began as an industrial technology, and was adopted by American graphic artists in the 1930s; the Pop Art movement of the 1960s further popularized the technique. Many of Andy Warhol's most famous works were created using the technique. It is currently popular both in fine arts and in small-scale commercial printing, where it is commonly used to put images on T-shirts, hats, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood.

During the time I operated Virgin Creek Printworks, I employed standard spot printing techniques for both paper and fabrics. I also developed several proprietary four color process printing techniques for printing on dark and colored fabrics. These techniques required custom mixed process inks, digitally separated process films for magenta, cyan, yellow, black along with a custom digitally created film for the white required to print under the process inks as they are transparent. I sometimes printed additional spot colors for metallic effects.

These prints were printed on a manual 8 color rotary screen press. As process ink saturation levels change drastically with squeegee angle and pressure, a meticulously controlled hand is required to accomplish the technique. Currently I am the only printer who has successfully printed such a technique. All modern screen shops use automatic presses that dial in pressure and angle mechanically.

Please check back for updates. many of my screen printed samples are located on a dead hard drive. I will post them when I have successfully resurrected the drive.