Gel Transfer Paintings
I have been doing photo collage since the early 70s, and have always enjoyed the free and spontaneous way images can be created with that method. In the fall of 2009, I started a variation on this practice, and instead of relying on photo images alone, I began making original paintings that incorporated photo imagery. To more smoothly integrate the photo elements with the painted areas, I transfered the ink from the photo images to acrylic gel medium, so that the paper backing has been removed. Often the the photo images become transparent in this process, and show the painted areas underneath. In the majority of these paintings, I have also painted over the gel elements so that they are dramatically transformed from their original appearance.
Seven Seas
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Riders On The Storm
Helen Of Sparta
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Star Mother
Dionysus
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Night Comes In
Gaia
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Arabella
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
The Colors Out Of Space
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
The Soul Ship
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
The Bard
The Elusive Butterfly
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
The Gift
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Above The World
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Juno
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Amphitrite
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
The Holy Mountain
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Carry Moonbeams Home
original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Flora
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer collage
Titania
Harmonia
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Fractal Dancer
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
To Distant Shores
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer
Redon's Garden
Original acrylic painting with gel transfer collage
Watcher At The Abyss
original acrylic painting with gel transfer collage