Building it One Layer At a Time

By Romana Lee-Akiyama

Purple, red, yellow and blue.

That’s the order of the colors used to print this lithograph.

Chen Lok Lee, Untitled. Color Lithograph. 1991. 23/100. Signed. Produced at Brandywine Workshop.

When the colors are extracted and printed separately, what do you see?

And what do you see when they are put together?

Available at Brandywine Press, Philadelphia, PA.

Images of Color Extracted Prints from the printmaking process.

Images: All prints are part of the Untitled piece created by Chen Lee in 1991. They are layers of colors used in this highly laborious process. Each print had to be run through the process four times to achieve the final, desired outcome.

Images: All prints are part of the Untitled piece created by Chen Lee in 1991. They are layers of colors used in this highly laborious process. Each print had to be run through the process four times to achieve the final, desired outcome.