"Skating", sweet illustration from the book Stars For Sarah of a young girl skating, matted 7" x 7", framed 11" x 14".

Mary Teichman studied calligraphy with Donald Kunz at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, where she received her BFA in 1976. Aside from her calligraphic work, Mary is a printmaker, illustrator and painter.  Her etchings are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, The Corcoran Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  Mary has also illustrated several children’s books including Color by Christina Rossetti (Harper Collins) and Stars for Sarah by Ann Turner. 

Her color etching technique is known as the color separation process.  She uses four copper plates, one for each primary color: yellow, red, blue and black.  The plates are inked and printed on the same sheet of paper, directly on top of the previous color, wet on wet, producing secondary colors as well as browns and grays.