"Love Guru" by Gero Eaton, Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Canvas

DETAILS: 48" X 60" Oil, Acrylic, Gold Leaf on Canvas Original Art Work ABOUT THE ARTIST: Gero Eaton Gero Eaton decided that he wanted not only to become an artist, but to join the greats, the first time he laid eyes on the genius strokes of the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Adopted from a Bulgarian orphanage and brought to live in Yonkers by an American couple at the age of seven, Gero overcame the obstacles of adapting to the American culture and learning English by expressing his feelings through art.  The coping mechanism that guided Mr. Eaton through his childhood became a passion that he was able to pursue through numerous scholarships and art awards that allowed him to become the first person in his family to go to college. As a BFA student with a concentration in painting at the University of Buffalo, Gero Eaton explored his strong emotional connection to the masterpieces he had admired as a child, the old masters’ drawing and painting techniques, and how they