Artist: Mary D. Ott

Title: "50 Czech Koruna II"

Medium: Screenprint

Edition: 5 of 6

Frame: Unframed

Artwork Size:
Height - 5 inches

Width - 8 inches

Depth - 0 inch

Additional Information:

"My artwork reflects my interest in color, texture, and design. The interplay of these elements can be seen in my prints and acrylic and mixed-media paintings and drawings. Using an expressive style, I produce work inspired by found objects such as ornamental grasses, by other images from nature, and by digital photographs taken while traveling.

I primarily work in the following printmaking media: intaglio, etching, photogravure, lithography, monotype, and screenprinting. I also paint with acrylics and do mixed-media work."

Mary D. Ott

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as Screen Printing, silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.