Gloria J Zucaro's "Pokey's Pals"

8"H x 8"W Original oil on Panel

$75.00 Unframed/ $90.00 Framed

Unframed/Framed

Option 1-Unframed $75.00 USD Option 2-Framed $90.00 USD

I had a lot of fun with this Daily Paintworks challenge because as you may have noticed, I love the color orange!  Apparently the designers have designated "Tangerine Tango" as the color of the year.  Our challenge was to paint a picture with the color of the year predominant.    My friend Ann Feldman beat me to the orange vegetables, so I raided my grandsons' toy box in my basement.  I kept calling "Pokey" " Gumby", until someone reminded me that "Gumby" is a little green rubber man, and this is his horse" Pokey"!  The fire truck is broken with its' ladder missing, but "what the hey"!  I like the weird little cross-eyed ball, too.


Below is a photo of "the beginning", my value study and start of putting in color.

Gloria J Zucaro's "Green Plate & Ham"

6"H x 8"W Original Oil on Stretched Canvas

$75.00  Staple-free sides painted black.  May be hung with or without frame.

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The Daily Paintworks Challenge for the week of January 8- 14 is to paint a picture of your breakfast.  Well, this was not my breakfast because I couldn't cook in the studio!  I actually had 2 slices of bacon, two fried eggs, and a healthy juiced fruit and vegetable combo that was made from 1 beet, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 1 orange and a one inch square of fresh ginger.  Oh, not to forget the large cup of Colombian coffee  "straight"! I haven't posted for a week because my children celebrated Christmas with me on the 7th. of January.  I was busy last week with some extra shopping and wrapping, and preparing or picking up food for the weekend.  So the ham in this picture is part of a Honeybaked ham we had.  I still have too much leftover, even though they each took some home.  Ham anybody?! I painted this over a previously used canvas.  I have photos of the canvas and my value study on my blog         www.gloriajzucaro.blogspot.com 

Gloria J Zucaro's "Purple Apple,Blue Orange,Green Lemon"

6"H x 6"W Original Oil on Canvas Panel

$65.00 Unframed $5.00 S&H

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This weeks challenge from the Daily Paintworks site is called "Change the Color!"  My original and actual colors were red apple, yellow lemon and an orange orange.  The soup bowl is actually shades of teal,blue/ green, & purple.  This was hard but fun!  I did the value study over my first panel with the four 10 minute pumpkin paintings on it that I had done for that challenge in October.   The colors underneath were orange, yellow and blue/green.  It made it a little confusing when I started my value study and painting, but once I got in most of the basic colors it felt better.

Gloria J Zucaro's "All Boxed Up"

6"H x 6"W Oil on Panel

$65. Unframed/$90. Framed in Black Floater Frame

Unframed/Framed

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This is the December challenge for Ria Hills, Shoot and Paint.  It was fun packaging up my painting! Visit Ria's blog. 

Gloria's"The Worm & The Mushroom II"

8"H x 8"W Oil on Panel$75.00 Unframed/$90.00 in Plain black Floater Frame(see Below)

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This is the second in my two part series of the paintings from the Ria Mills "Paint & Shoot" October Challenge, only I didn't get it done in October so here it is now.  The first one had the worm under the mushroom and was done in Pastel.  This one is in oil.

Here it is in the floater frame, the colors in the top photograph are closer to reality in my monitor.

Gloria J Zucaro's "Go To Okabashi"

6"H x 6"W Original Oil  on Raymar Panel

$65.00 Unframed/$80.00 Framed in Plain Black Wood Frame

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These black rubber sandals are my "go to" shoes all year long.  I have had them for about 3 years and they are so comfortable that I wear them all summer.  In the cold weather I remove my "outdoor" shoes when I come home, and my socks and put my Okabashi on.  Here they are modeled with my pajama bottoms..it is Sunday after all! :) 
This is the Daily Paintworks Challenge for this week.
About the Okasbashi company.  I copied this from their website " Our factory was built on 300 acres of land in Buford, GA – a hub for shoe manufacturing in the early 1900’s. The company adopted the name “Okabashi”, inspired by the Japanese principles of reflexology-based design."

Gloria J Zucaro's "Taking A Break"

6"H x 6"W Original Oil on Raymar Panel

This painting is available through my Daily Paintworks auction for a starting bid of $45.00

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The Daily Paintworks challenge this week is to use a reference picture to form your own group of people from all the subjects in the reference crowd scene.  I changed the scene by eliminating the umbrellas, and putting people from three different tables together.  I brought the windows and flower boxes down to the lower level of the building. 

            These ladies needed to get off their feet after a day of sight seeing!  "Cheers!

See the reference photo below.

Gloria J Zucaro's "The Nesting"

6"H x 6"W Oil on Raymar Panel

$65.00 Unframed/$80.00 in Plain Black Wood Frame

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This painting was created to be entered in the Point and Shoot Challenge offered for the month of November by Ria Hills on her blog site. Ria and her friend Pamela White Murphy started these new monthly challenges last month.  All paintings are done using their photographs as the starting point.  My first gull and I think she has personality!  10% of the sale of this painting will go toward Kimberly Conrad's fundraiser for breast cancer.

Gloria J Zucaro's Pumpkin Challenge"Up Close & Personal"

6"H x 6"W Original Oil on Raymar Panel
Unframed.  This pumpkin painting may be found on the Daily Paintworks site up for auction starting bid at $35.00 or purchased here for $65.00.  10% of the proceeds from the sale go to Kimberly Conrad's Club 47 to raise money for Breast Cancer Research.

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Gloria J Zucaro's "Diamonds are..."

11"H x 14"W Original oil on Canvas

$75.00 plus S&H 

Another really fun challenge from the Daily Paintworks site.  Carol Marine listed a photo of a young girl with a very busy background.  She said to do what we would with the photo in making our own background.  I don't know why, but I immediately thought of the young girl leaving Tiffany's with her bag filled with and her body covered in diamonds.  My Blog

Gloria J Zucaro's "Entri qui, per favore"

 

10"H x 8"W Original Oil from part of cropped photo by Layne Cook

for the Daily Paintworks Challenge for the week of October 9-15.  $100.00

           

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In this challenge we were to pick part of the photo from Layne Cook and make our own composition.

Here is whole photo.

 When I enlarged it to see it better, I saw this beautiful carved wooden and massive doorway at the top of the stairs. It is draped with a canopy and side panels in lush fabric.  I was attracted the the doorway and curved stonework over the door as well as the light on the side of the building leading up to the entry.  To me it is in an Italian city.  So I am calling it "Enter Here, Please" in Italian.  The translation is from the Yahoo Babel Fish site.

Gloria J Zucaro's "Fall-N-Leaves"

8"H x 8"W  Original Oil

Unframed/Framed

Option 1-Unframed $75.00Option 2-Framed $90.00

       Thank you Ann, for this exciting challenge.  I have admired many of your peek-a-boo paintings and now a great challenge.  I started with a background tone of an acrylic paint called Hotshots Fluorescent Acrylics in Fiery Red.  The came the olive green in random brush strokes, then the dark maple leaf forms with much of the red showing through.  next came my favorite, turquoise leaves, some more touches of green in a lighter value, and some brushes strokes of alizarin crimson,cobalt and dioxine purple in the dark leaves.  I really had fun doing something totally different today.                       MY Blog

Gloria J Zucaro's Four Value Challenge "Island In The Clouds"

9"H x 11.75"W  Original Oil on Board

This is the Sept 10, 2011 weekly challenge from the Daily Paintworks site.  The project involves using 4 values to design your painting.  How to "Keep it simple".  Not as easy as it would seem!  Nonetheless, I enjoyed the challenge and realize how valuable it is to learn to decipher the different values in your 2D composition to make it as realistic as the original scene.  I used Burnt Sienna and white and plan to finish the painting in colors natural to the actual landscape.  This photo was taken in Busse Woods, near Schaumburg, Ill on the North side of Route 72.

Gloria J Zucaro's "A Week Late, But Not A Dollar Short"

9 x 12 Pastel on Sanded Paper    $100.00 which includes mat, glass and frame.  S&H  $10.00

Well, here it is The Upside Down Challenge from the Daily Paintworks group for the week of June 18 through 24.  I got so involved with two Balance Challenges, one of them the pastel of my Mahjong tiles took me way too long.  I got behind, but at least I got this weeks Old Mill challenge done, and now am ready for tomorrows new challenge.  This will be my Operation #47 second painting.  I will give 10% of the sale price of this painting to Breast Cancer Research.

Gloria J Zucaro's "Twilight & Sunset"

8"H x10"W Oil on Utrecht Canvas Board  This painting is available through the Daily Paintworks Auction site.  Bidding starts at $100.00.00 and 10% will be donated breast cancer research.  The "47" project is in response to a challenge by Kimberly Conrad from Contemporary Fine Art International.  All are welcome to join in the challenge.  Go to   http://kimberlyconraddailypaintings.blogspot.com

The challenge this week is presented by Jean Nelson.  I chose to do it in a triadic color scheme.  I first toned the canvas with cad red medium.  After it dried I proceeded with a triadic color scheme of cad orange, viridian, and manganese violet letting the toned background show through for a sunset feel to the painting....my favorite time of day with landscapes!

Gloria J Zucaro's "The Present" and The Past Challenge

8'H X 10"W    SOLD

This is the latest Daily Paintworks Challenge.  Wrap up a present and paint it.  Well, as it happens today is my birthday and on Tuesday afternoon a box arrived from my ex-sister-in-law.  I opened the box and this lovely present was in it.  So I painted the gift box along with the really beautiful card.  The card has sparkles on it...I just love anything that sparkles.  After a Thai dinner at my son's house tonight with my daughter-in-law and my adorable grandson, age three, we opened presents.  In this box there was a beautiful little bird, actually about life size and a wonderful candle with a bird, nest and flowers reverse painted on the glass.  Two additions to my collection for future paintings.  Although I don't get to see my sister-in-law much anymore, I always think of her fondly and remember the good times we had together when we were as close as true sisters.