Dan McCarthy - Sailor Take Warning
4 color screenprint on Cougar White 100lb
24 x 18 inches
numbered, limited edition of 75
printed by Danny Askar in Portland, OR
Screenprinting (also called silkscreen printing) is a technique where ink is pushed through a fine mesh screen onto a surface, with a stencil blocking ink from areas that shouldn't be printed. Each color requires its own separate screen and pass, so multi-color designs involve layering the print color by color.
It's known for producing bold, opaque, vibrant colors with a slightly textured, tactile feel. Ink sits on top of the surface rather than absorbing into it the way offset litho does. This makes it popular for pop-culture and limited-edition art prints and posters, since the thick ink layers give strong visual impact
Please allow up to 8 weeks for delivery. Prints will typically ship rolled in protective tubes, though some may ship flat between sheets of sturdy cardboard depending on size, medium, and quantity purchased.
"Wrath of the Gods" is Historiart's companion collection to the licensed print series "Defy the Gods." This collection features original artwork inspired by Greek mythology and the myths that have shaped human culture for over three thousand years.
The collection debuts at Exhibit A Gallery in Los Angeles on July 13th alongside the licensed print series.
Dan McCarthy is a screen print artist, painter, and master printer based in Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he trained across drawing, painting, animation, etching, lithography, and screen printing, and he still hand-prints all of his own work today. He runs the Dan McCarthy Print Club from his print shop in Falmouth, MA, producing screen-printed posters for music and film alongside his gallery work.
His art frequently returns to a set of recurring, quietly haunting images of telephone poles and wires, skeletons beneath flowering bushes, dark forest silhouettes, and houses lit up at night, often exploring themes of death and rebirth. He cites early Japanese printmakers like Hokusai and Hiroshige as key influences, particularly their simplicity of color and line.