2025 Festival Print by Nick Perry
$100.00
Prints are a limited run and only available with a donation of $100 to the Smoky Hill River Festival.
With a foundation rooted in drawing and printmaking, Nick Perry of Red Legger Studio works in an illustrative, semi-psychedelic style of pop surrealism. He uses screen printing as the ideal medium to display his graphic style that teeters the line between fine art and a low brow cartooning vibe. He creates narratives blending both the sacred and ephemeral. In addition to history and American culture his influences include underground comics and outlaw print makers.
The Process of Silkscreen Printmaking
Silk-screening, also known as Screen Printing, involves a meticulous hands-on approach where each ink layer is printed using a squeegee to pull ink across a screen. Colors are layered with drying time between each, often creating a blending of colors through skilled overlaying techniques. Successive colors require new, clean screens with specific stencils, showcasing the artist’s direct involvement. This print by Nick Perry utilizes two screens, each incorporating a different aspect of the design—one printed in magenta and the other in cyan. The transparency and overlay of these colors produce the third color visible in the design. To create this limited edition set of 250 prints, Perry would have pulled the squeegee at a minimum 500 times.