Women in Art 278 Magazine April 2014 | Page 28

website facebook american painter twitter Karla Gerard acrylic my ART passion is painting and sharing my art with the world. I am self-taught and I enjoy painting folk art and abstract because the styles are similar in that they are simple and uncomplicated. I like incorporating elements and ideas from many different inspirational sources and combine them into my paintings, whether they be from magazines, books, photos, nature, from a dream or from right off the top of my head. My paintings seem to evolve as I go along. I start with an idea and it flourishes. wom en