PALETTE AND PRINT

ORIGINAL ART AND PRINTS

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Scratchboard is a reverse-technique medium. Black or colored ink is sprayed or painted over a material called scraperboard, a cardstock coated with white chalk. Using a variety of sharp tools, the artist then scrapes away the ink in the areas to be white or colored. The medium was popular in the 1930s for newspaper illustrations. Gerene Reid is one of very few fine artists currently using this meticulous technique.

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 Scratchboard Originals

Pastel paintings are done on papers of various types, using an infinite number of colored chalks. Gerene prefers to work on artist's sandpaper, using hard pastels first and then working over them in layers of softer pastel crayons. She often combines this medium with opaque watercolors (gouache) or other media to achieve the results she wants.

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 Pastel Originals

Unlike many oil painters, Gerene works "wet into wet" to achieve an impressionistic effect with her oils. She works directly on the canvas, "drawing" with her paintbrush or palette knives  rather than preparing a detailed drawing in advance. Oils are her preferred medium for drawing from life or in the field.

Oil Paintings

 Original Oils

Rather than working on smooth paper, as do most colored pencil artists, Gerene works mainly on
textured papers and on mylar film, often backing the darker areas of the mylar drawings with paint, to
achieve greater depth.

Limited Edition (100) Prints, Signed And Numbered

 Colored Pencil Drawings

 Colored Pencil Originals

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