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Fine Art Glossary & Printmaking

Materials, terminology, original hand-pulled serigraph (silkscreen) editions, and archival giclée reproductions.

Medium Glossary (6) About Serigraphy Limited Edition Pricing Giclée Reproductions

Atelier Mediums & Collectors' Glossary

Diptych / Triptych

Merriam-Webster defines a diptych as a picture or series of pictures painted or carved on two hinged tablets or a work made up of two matching parts. In common art vernacular it refers to an artwork presented with two or more separate but related pieces displayed side-by-side as a cohesive unit. Triptych is used specifically for three-piece artworks.

Gallery-Wrap Canvas

A canvas constructed by wrapping the fabric around the edge of the stretcher bars and stapling in back rather than on the sides. When Curtis uses gallery-wrap canvas, the sides are 1-1/2" deep (unless noted otherwise) and the image continues around the edges of the canvas, creating a clean presentation without requiring a frame.

Giclée

Pronounced 'zjee-clay', a high-resolution fine art pigment printing process spraying archival inks onto paper or canvas mounted on a spinning drum. Giclée prints from reputable printers carry a projected lifetime exceeding 200 years without fading under normal indoor lighting, and canvas giclées can also be hand-embellished by the artist.

Plein Air

Pronounced 'plehn-ehr' — painting done on-location, typically outdoors ('in plain air'). Plein air works capture immediacy, natural light, and spontaneous atmosphere within the time window shaped by weather and shifting sun.

Prismacolor & ArtStix

Pure pigment pressed and bound in wax rather than clay/graphite lead. Traditionally limited in scale by wooden pencil tips, woodless pastel-sized Prismacolor ArtStix allow broader, flowing strokes in drawing and mixed-media studies.

Serigraphy (Silkscreen)

From Greek 'seri' (silk) and 'graph' (write/draw). Fine art silkscreen prints pulled layer by layer through stencils on a mesh screen — a reductive process yielding strictly limited, hand-pulled editions where subtle variations in ink registration make every impression one of a kind.

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Original Hand-Pulled Serigraphy (Silkscreen)

Curtis Long studied printmaking under Tim High, Founder of the serigraphy program at the University of Texas at Austin. Unlike photographic offset reproductions, each serigraph edition is pulled one color layer at a time through hand-cut or hand-drawn stencils onto archival paper at studios such as Terra Rosa Studio in Austin. Because the stencil or emulsion is removed after printing, the limited edition can never be reprinted.

Archival Giclée Reproductions (_reproductions.htm): Select sold-out paintings are also available as archival museum-grade pigment prints on paper or stretched canvas, with optional hand embellishment directly by the artist upon inquiry.