Gail Postal
There have been two major influences on my work--old Japanese hand-tinted photographs and even older
Russian Orthodox icons. I started working with graphite on paper and used colored pencils to color parts of the
drawing, but I wanted a more intense color so I switched to graphite on board with oil paint. I am also
experimenting with different kinds of gold paint to replicate the feeling of the old icons with contemporary "saints."
There have been two major influences on my work--old Japanese hand-tinted photographs and even older
Russian Orthodox icons. I started working with graphite on paper and used colored pencils to color parts of the
drawing, but I wanted a more intense color so I switched to graphite on board with oil paint. I am also
experimenting with different kinds of gold paint to replicate the feeling of the old icons with contemporary "saints."
21 Century Icon Benat,
36 x 18, graphite with
oil paint
36 x 18, graphite with
oil paint
Christa, 12 x 24, graphite with oil paint
Dancer, 18 x 24, graphite with oil
paint
paint
Rosario, 18 x 24, graphite with oil paint
21 Century Icon Jesse, 36
x 18, graphite with oil paint
x 18, graphite with oil paint
Pears and Grapes, 11 x 14, oil
Pears and Orange, 9 x 12, oil
Jose, 36 x 18, graphite
with oil paint
with oil paint
Rene, 24 x 36, graphite with oil paint
Greg, 24 x 12, graphite and oil
paint
paint
Colin, 36 x 18, graphite,
acrylic, oil paint
acrylic, oil paint
Christa, 30 x 22, graphite and color pencil
Benat, 18 x 24, graphite with oil paint
Alan, 24 x 18, graphite with oil paint
Connie in Orange, 36 x 18, graphite
and oil paint
and oil paint
Amanda, 24 x 12, graphite, oil paint