Gayle Gerson : Artist » water media

Come Into Our Cave

ggerson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:43:00 +0000

I have re-worked this watermedia on Yupo piece. It seems to be in its final form as I have added some new quirks and removed a little murkiness.
I listen to the English alternative group, Muse, a lot in my studio, so the title is a tribute to one of their songs.
This piece is 20 H x 28 W inches and is priced at $1200.00 framed.

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.
This painting is 26×20 inches, unframed, and is for sale for $800.00

Ghosts of Africa

ggerson — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:15:43 +0000

This is my watermedia version of Stopping Traffic (see collages). It love embellishing these mystical figures. This painting was juried into the Western Colorado Watercolor Society Show in 2009 where it won a merchandise award. It is currently at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado where it was juried into the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Show. I was very excited to have a work juried into this highly competitive show. I was even more excited when it won the Dona Abbott Memorial Award.
This painting is for sale for $900.00

Dust Up

ggerson — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:06:37 +0000

So I am into dots these days. This piece started out as a landscape based on a photo taken in my neighborhood. I began it in a workshop I was teaching to demonstrate using loosely drawn black lines using a pipette bottle. After I finished applying my black lines, one of my students said it looked like a herd of horses. So I just went with that.
This painting was juried into the 2009 Colorado Watercolor Society Show where it won Third Place-Award of Excellence. It is currently featured on the CWS website. and on my artist page on the Grand Junction Commission on the Arts webpage.
This painting is For Sale for $600.00

Wildfire Afternoon

ggerson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:02:31 +0000

I painted this experimental watermedia piece on Yupo* several summers ago during an extreme drought in Colorado. There was an almost constant smoky haze and odor in the air from the many wildfires around the region.
I thought the intense hot colors of red, orange and rose had to be counter-balanced by shots of blues and greens. I couldn’t control the intensity of the weather, but I could control the environment of my painting.
This painting was juried into the 2002 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City.
It sold in 2004 to a collector in the Eastern U.S.
*Yupo is a plastic sheet paper used by watermedia artists. It has no absorption qualities and is great for experimental processes.

Backlight Borders

ggerson — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:05:34 +0000

This experimental abstract will soon be hanging at Co-Art gallery on Santa Fe Street in Denver as part of the New Trends 2009 Show sponsored by the Colorado Watercolor Society.