Grand Lake Sketchbook – Original Illustrated Paper Collage

Description

A veritable trove of Dolan Geiman’s signature collage motifs and techniques, Grand Lake Sketchbook offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative exploration through natural themes, pattern making and classic found paper materials. Primarily a landscape scene, this small work features a stately moose rendered in vintage papers, including antlers bedecked in handwritten letters salvaged from a relative’s long-forgotten steamer trunk.

Notice the quilt pattern in the upper right quadrant – a nod to Mama Made II original paper collage – alongside toadstools that call back to Hummingbird (Cactus) original paper collage. Through this amalgam of characters and elements peeks antique piano sheet music, highlighted with silk screen shapes pulled from Dolan’s woodshop. Mountain and clouds are layered in in carefully applied acrylic paint.

Bring home this mixed media buffet: a whimsical conversation starter for the mountain modern home, or truly any place that is could stand a little infusion of fun.

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