Gayle Gerson : Artist » water media

Any Cave in a Thunderstorm

ggerson — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:00:30 +0000

This started out as an experimental ground that I demonstrated in one of my classes. Even after it got juried into a state show, I still wasn’t completely satisfied with it. This week I gave it another go and now I think I will leave it be as a finished entity.
It was a compositional problem that I believe I solved. It is 19 by 24 inches on watercolor paper. It will be matted and framed and for sale at $600.00

Warm

ggerson — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:15:47 +0000

This abstract piece on Yupo paper was another attempt to complete a colorful under-layer as a class demonstration. It came together rather fast unlike most of my abstract work and I love the way the light shines through.
It measures 26×37 inches unframed and is for sale for $1500.00.

Adobe Dawn

ggerson — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +0000

I have had this piece hanging around my studio for a long time waiting to be finished. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted it to be a collage or a watermedia painting. Well this week I decided to finish it in watermedia. I tore off all the collage pieces that weren’t painted paper and really did very little to finish it, just refining some of the shadows on the building and bringing up some bright color in places.
It is 18 x25 inches on heavy watercolor paper and is for sale for $800.00, matted and framed.

Doppelganger

ggerson — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:16:50 +0000

I decided to return to one of my favorite ways of doing art: abstract design on yupo paper using liquid acrylics. This piece began as a demonstration of a colorful substrate in my “Adventures in Mixed Media Class” at the Art Center.
I brought it home and painted it as another in my series of “collective-consciousness” primitive god-like images. Other works in the series include “Ghosts of Africa” and “We Will Take Care of You”. I keep on wanting to title these pieces “I think they’re trying to tell us something” but I have come to understand that indeed that is why I paint them: to find out what “they” are trying to say. I hope I never find out because I do not want to stop the process. I just purchased a whole pile of yupo paper so that I may continue to work in this series.
I call it “Doppelganger” because of the two remaining circle shapes that refused to be subdued as I worked.
It is 26 x32 inches and is for sale for $1500.00, matted and framed.

Making Peace with Circles-SOLD

ggerson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:36:34 +0000

This watermedia piece was done on a hand-made piece of paper. True to my style, it also has layers of collaged materials underneath. It turned into a grid by accident as a stamped in the circles. I named it “Making Peace with Circles” because of the calm blue background and the fact that I do not like to work with circle shapes generally. They are too perfect and sort of boring. I tried to make them less than perfect. This piece was juried into the Colorado Watercolor Society‘s annual New Trends Show in Denver in September to take place at the CoArt Gallery in the Santa Fe Street art district.
It is for sale for $1200.00 framed.
THIS PIECE HAS SOLD.

Old City

ggerson — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:46:28 +0000

I have had this piece floating around my studio for a while and it has gone through several incarnations. I just happened to look at it the other day and realized I really like it.
The inspiration is Jerusalem. It is watermedia on collaged paper.
This piece won the Leon T. Hake Memorial Award at the 2012 Colorado Watercolor Society Juried Show at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado.
It is for sale framed for $800.00

Tree People

ggerson — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:51:35 +0000

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 and outlined 9 different faces. After that step, I worked into it a lot with acrylic paint. Although it isn’t evident at all in the finished product, the original waterpaper ground is collaged with altered magazine pages–there are many layers to this piece both in thought, action and material.
The piece is 30 inches high by 22 inches wide unframed and is for sale for $1200.00
This piece was recently juried into the 20th Rockies West National Watermedia Show at the Art Center in Grand Junction during the month of March 2012.

We Will Take Care Of You

ggerson — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:45:26 +0000

This is another in my series abstract figures based on the Navaho Yei designs. They are sort of deities, observers, caretakers. I am not sure where they come from, but I like them.
It has just recently been accepted into the group show “Abstractions” at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago scheduled to open from May 6th to June 30th, 2011.
This piece is watermedia on Yupo paper, approximately 22 ” wide by 30″ high. It is for sale.

Come Into Our Cave

ggerson — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:44:32 +0000

Here is another version of my cave concept. I tried to use all the watermedia tricks in my tool basket to make the images look both old and new, on purpose and accidental, thoughtful and frivolous, tribal and modern. It is an enigma for sure…but pleasing enough.
This piece is 18 inches wide by 20 inches high. It is for sale for $500.00, matted and framed.
This piece was juried into the Rockies West National Exhibition. It will be on display at The Art Center in Grand Junction from March 1, 2011 until April 2, 2011.

Three Martini Lunch

ggerson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:20:07 +0000

This painting started out as a response to a challenge posed by this year’s program for the Rocky Mountain Collage Society. We were asked to bring a black and white collage to our November meeting. I collaged a random selection of black and white collage pieces onto a piece of yupo. I then began to try to find a good abstract design in the chaos by unifying and blocking out. It just didn’t come together so I decided to do a grid design and depict flower pots which was a challenge in itself because I depend so much on color. Well, I began to like the characters forming in each pot and it ended up as a watermedia-over-collage piece. I call it “Three Martini Lunch” because of the martini glass shape on the left with the black circle that cries out “olive”. I guess I should call it “Nine Martini Lunch”, but I don’t like to promote that much over-imbibing.
In March 2010, it was juried into the Rockies West National Juried Exhibition and won a merchandise award. It was also juried into Colorado Watercolor Society’s New Trends show where it won second place. In January 2011, it is travelling to California where it was juried into the 2nd Annual Signature American Watercolor Exhibition at Fallbrook Art Center.
This painting is 26×20 inches, unframed, and is for sale for $900.00