I did this collage to see if I could successfully do portrait collages. This piece depicts my son and his family. I incorporated my grand-daughter’s artwork, my son’s artwork, many photos of the family at various points in their lives. The reference for this was a photo from a holiday card.

September 13, 2009
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Family – NFS

I did this collage to see if I could successfully do portrait collages. This piece depicts my son and his family. I incorporated my grand-daughter’s artwork, […]
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September 12, 2009
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Meta Muse – SOLD

I struggled with this “made up” portrait until I decided to overlay a manipulated photo of the Mona Lisa printed on transparent vellum on top of […]
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September 12, 2009
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Mountains, Mesas and So On-SOLD

This is one of my “layered landscapes” which I built on top of a collaged piece of yupo. I had no reference for this. It is […]
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September 11, 2009
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Old Tulips – SOLD

I love to do floral still lifes in collage. I start with a collaged ground and build the still life on top using many layers. Still […]
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September 10, 2009
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Sheep Sanctuary SOLD

This collage is done on a 12×12 cradled board (it looks like a box). It is part of my forest series and was created with magazine […]
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September 10, 2009
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Wildfire Afternoon SOLD

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 […]
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September 6, 2009
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Backlight Borders

watermedia on yupo, matted and framed 19″ x 25″ $1000.00 This experimental watercolor has been juried into three watermedia exhibits:  2007 – Western Federation of Watercolor […]
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September 5, 2009
Published by ggerson at September 5, 2009
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Viva Cuba Libre NFS

I did this collage in response to a trip to Cuba. It was prompted by picking up a tattered piece of paper off the ground which […]
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