gayle gerson : artist

This another of my mixed media oil experiments. It is truly a fantasy forest. I started it as a demo for a local art club and it soon took on a life of its own. It is done on a wrapped canvas and is 18 inches x 24 inches. It will be in the Dairy [...]

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I wanted to see if I could use oil paint on top of collage. I love the process of applying juicy oil paint and working with mixing colors. I didn’t want to give up my collage process either. How could I have the best of both worlds? I discovered there is such a thing as [...]

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This collage piece is a re-working of an older collage. I have always had a good feeling about this particular tree which actually exists up on the trail in the Colorado National Monument. Of course, I have taken liberties. It is collage papers on hand-made paper, 22 inches by 29 inches and is framed. It [...]

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This postcard collage just won an award in the National Collage Society‘s annual postcard show. I enter this show every year as a member of the society. I find it is a great exercise to create the most interesting collage I can within a 4 inch by 6 inch space.

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This watermedia piece is the result of a class project that I assigned involving working in a grid. I worked on it for two class semesters actually. It started out as nine very similiar trees. It was boring. One of my students said that she saw faces in the trees so I took her suggestion [...]

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I did this piece to enter in the annual Winefest poster contest at The Blue Pig Gallery in Palisade, Colorado. It didn’t win the contest for graphic design considerations, but it did get many nice compliments. It is a collage done on a 16 inch x 20 inch cradled gesso board. It is for sale [...]

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