I’m currently working on an illustration for Whole Life Times Magazine illustrating an article about healing sessions taking place around Los Angeles that begin with cocktails! It’s been such a fun assignment, getting to draw sophisticated socialites that can float cocktails in the air, have third eyes, and will have glowing auras once I add color! —G
My Iceland Abstracted paintings at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
This years art exhibit was a big success! Got to show a collection of my watercolors from Iceland, along with the poems they were based on. It was my first time exhibiting poetry, which was a little intimidating, but the outcome was extremely rewarding! Keep your eyes peeled for my book with the full collection of my Iceland Abstracted paintings and poems, coming out later this year. Much thanks to all those who made the trip out to Malibu!! -Gayle
with Tyson—the phenomenal artist and writer.
with Joe Piasentin—a truly amazing artist.
The Reception!
This year I’m exhibiting 15 watercolor paintings along with the poems they were based on. The paintings were chosen from a collection of about 35 watercolors from my Iceland Abstracted series which encompasses poetry and painting. The work was done mostly in the field in moleskine journals—on location in Iceland. If you have the chance, come on out to the museum!
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA 90263
arts.pepperdine.edu/museum
Exhibit Hours:
11:00a.m.-6:00p.m. Tuesday May 4 through Friday May 7
11:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Saturday May 8 and Sunday May 9
11:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Tuesday May 11 through Saturday May 15
Closed Mondays. There is no admission charge.
Reception to Meet the Artists: Thursday May 6, 12:00-1:30p.m.
It’s been long in the making, but I’ve finally pulled together the design for my new home page. Yay!! It now unifies my four (yes I said 4!) websites under one single roof. No more sending people to different URL’s. Now each site is accessible directly from gaylewheatley.com. I have been designing each site one after the other over the last year and a half. Now that they are done, it’s time for a full redesign of my original artist site. (sigh.) So this is the first phase of that ginormous project. So have a look at the new site, and if you have a minute, let me know your thoughts, feedback, or anything else. I’d love to hear what you think!!
Just finished a new illustration for Pepperdine University’s production of Songfest—a musical extravaganza. This year’s theme is History in the Making, so I drew a Mayan-inspired temple with hand-drawn type that is being hoisted up in place—literally depicting history in the making! The illustration was sketched in pencil, inked over, then colored digitally in Photoshop with overlay layers of paper textures to create an old world vibe.
So, in a burst of inspiration, (and in a complete departure from my previous two concepts!) I finally came up with this finalized painting for the Beautiful Grim breast cancer charity art auction that harkens back to my bubble girl paintings: explorations of otherworldly environments where symbolic elements such as oxygen and water compete for sustenance.
The deadline is TODAY and I finally got the whole thing finished and turned in. Whew! It was getting down to the last minute there!
Adorned with a melting crown of textured coral that threatens to drip and tragically melt everything along with it, stands my “Beautiful Grim,” a remarkably strong and beautiful woman who has learned to breathe underwater against all odds in order to survive. Wearing a glass explorer’s bubble, her face is defiantly immersed in an oceanic microcosm full of fish.
Just realized this is the first OIL PAINTING that I’ve completed in 2010, as well as the first oil on canvas I’ve painted in about 8 months! (which is quite shocking for me as I’ve been paining in oils obsessively through the last decade and beyond.) Ever since my trip to Iceland 8 months ago, I have been experimenting with painting primarily in watercolors. Hadn’t realized it had been so long since I’d painted in oil!
My latest art exhibit just came to a close, and it was a big success! It was amazing to be able to show such a large collection of my paintings! Thank you to all those who came out!!!
Gayle outside the Weisman Museum of Art in Malibu, California
Gayle with her paintings
Firenzes!
the artist’s reception
with museum director Michael Zakian
with artist Tyson Wintibaugh
with photographer Ron Hall
Wheatley_mdrWeisman.jpg "Art Exhibition at the Weisman Museum! art exhibits")
I’ll be showing a collection of 17 paintings (!) from my Emotional Landscapes series at the Wesiman Museum of Art in Malibu, California.
The Artist’s Reception:
Thursday May 7, 12:00-1:30p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
There is no admission charge.
Museum Hours: 11:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
(The show will only be up for one week! Tues May 5-Friday May 
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA
310.506.4851
http://arts.pepperdine.edu/museum/
My painting Moon Dream was recently featured on Lime.com to accompany an article about gender freedom.
Wedding Venues & Services magazine, published in the United Kingdom, will be featuring an illustration of mine with one of their feature stories in their next issue! More to come later…
Wheatley_SbrideHoliday08.jpg "Holiday Card for Southern Bride Magazine digital")
I had the opportunity to create this festive card for Southern Bride magazine this season. I had been playing around with sketches for my own holiday card featuring a girl in a candy cane dreamland, and thought this wonderland would be beautiful with a happy bride in her gown and veil, decked out in diamonds, with diamond snow drops falling all around her. This is how it all turned out!
I’ve been meaning to splinter gaylewheatley.com into a couple sites all year, and I finally did it! There were just too many peices of work together under one roof! Now my paintings and illustrations are located on one site and all my design on another:
www.thedesignstar.com
Check it out!
-G
