Serigraphy
is a complex printmaking process of producing multiple impressions. It
is a slow and painstaking hand-operated process.
All limited edition serigraphs
featured on this website are created and executed by Michael Leu himself, not a printer. Leu
directly creates images onto silkscreens by his own original brushstrokes
and makes an individual stencil for each
color. The ink is then squeezed
through the stencil on to the paper underneath.
Afterwards, the screen is
washed clean, thus the stencil is destroyed forever, and the entire process is
repeated for each individual color of ink until the work is complete.
Once an edition is sold out, there
is no way to reproduce the same image as an original serigraph. The artist carefully examines each piece in the finished
edition and only those that he approves are signed and numbered.
Each serigraph of the edition comes with a signed Certificate
of Authenticity.
Over the years, serigraphy
has developed in sophistication and is a widely accepted print-making technique
popular with many collectors today. |