Zoo Series – Tundra
Zoo Series communicates the interconnectedness of life in a series of circles of life drawings which I made into serigraphs. They go along with related animal tales/poems titled Magic Circle.
Tundra is a serigraph which used one of those graphite drawings as its basis. When I created my drawing, I thought about how it would translate into a serigraph. I then scanned, refined, and adjusted the scanned image before making a bitmap of it to be printed on a transparency film. I developed the transparency onto a screen, which was coated with a light sensitive emulsion in a developer. After rinsing out the screen I applied ink through the screen onto the paper below. When I edited the print, I added additional colors by painting ink directly onto the print.
What makes serigraphy, or more commonly known as silkscreen printmaking, the perfect printmaking mode for my art is, I can retain areas of pure white paper, capture the tonality of my drawings, and place areas of intense color that either overlaps part of the image, or lightly kisses the edge of image.
Kathleen Zimmerman
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