Size & Details
Size & Details
Each year, Dolan creates a signature Santa Claus paper collage. For 2024, we present Santa Paws. St. Nicholas is a busy man, as you know, and he is committed to delivering big seasonal cheer and a knowing chuckle. Come rain, sleet or snow, he reliably brings all kinds of gifts to girls and boys – no matter how many mountainside forests or blizzard-worn valleys he must traverse. In fact, Santa is an excellent hiker, and this year, he’s arriving on foot. He brings a special delivery of holiday surprises in his oversized Christmas basket, including some canine and feline pals for a lucky family. Bring a little holiday joy into your home with this original paper collage, rendered in vintage papers and special Christmas add-ins, including cards pulled from Dolan’s personal holiday stash.
Start your Dolan Geiman Santa Claus artwork collection. You can also shop past years' Santa prints.
- Medium: vintage papers and acrylic on wood
- Size: 32.5" x 26.5" (framed)
- Frame: weathered brown wood frame with Museum Plexi
- Hardware: ready to hang with wire on back
Process
Process
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Dolan Geiman Paper Collages
Dolan's signature paper collage artwork celebrates America's West and Southwest. Color, composition, and detail come to life in hand-cut vintage materials, many salvaged in Dolan's cross-country travels.
Creating the original collage starts with a wood panel. Dolan pulls vintage sheet music from his vast collection and applies these to the wood, first with glue, then with a top layer of whitewash paint. In many prints, this background layer of sheet music peeks through.
Next, Dolan draws the outline for the original collage in graphite atop the sheet music.
Dolan returns to his extensive trove of collected papers – think magazines, antique textbooks, handwritten letters salvaged from abandoned farmsteads - and begins pulling the ideal colors for the piece. He cuts each piece of material by hand and carefully layers into the artwork. These collages are carefully crafted from thousands of small papers: no two are exactly alike.
Dolan's paper collages are finished in a handmade frame constructed from salvaged metal or a modern, minimal wood or metal frame.
