Works

Rip Woods , Artist and Professor, specialized in serigraphy for painters. Serigraphy, unlike other forms of printmaking, has a broad range of application. The basic element in this process involves a stencil, supported by fabric stretched over an open frame. The procedures in making the stencils have become increasingly sophisticated, varied and costly.  Rip, using silk screen printing in many of his projects, decided to work on a method that allows the artist, including himself, to do serigraphy in a similar way the original painting process would occur. His simplified stencil-making process requires the use of a “non-drying medium” which may be pigmented as traditional oil colors are mixed. This medium is painted directly upon pre-stretched sheets of Mylar. Each separate image sheet is then pressed to the stencil fabric, transferring the “non-drying medium” into the mesh openings. 

According to Professor Woods, there are many advantages in using the transparencies and non-drying medium. For example, the image may be manipulated, altered, or reused at any given time during the process of printing. Woods not only uses Silk Screen Printing in his art but also painting on canvas, three dimensional items and even a little pottery. You can see several of his works above. 

-Arizona State University, volume four – number six, December, 1979. Published by the office of the dean of the graduate college.