Gloria J Zucaro's "Wishful Thinking"

8"H x 8"W  Original Oil on Panel

Unframed $75.00, S&H to your ZIP

It has turned completely frigid and prospects of 4 to 8 inches of snow loom ahead.  Although I love to have cool sleeping conditions and love the four seasons, it is usually around this time of year that I really appreciate the thought of 70 degree temperatures with a slight warm breeze and sunny skies.  I saw these flowers near a weathered chair and vintage rusted car in Door County Wisconsin last July.  Take me there oh my imagination!  This is my Paint Party Friday entry for this week.  Happy PPF!
 If you are in our area of the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, I have paintings on display at Mainstreet Art Centre, The Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake, IL and The Old Courthouse Gallery in Woodstock, IL and The College of Lake County.

Gloria J Zucaro's "Fall Flavors"

 8"H x 8"W Original Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel

$105.00 Framed    S&H to your ZIP
To Purchase, email me at gloria@gloriajzucaro.com

The Pantone color of the year for 2012 is "Tangerine Tango"  I happen to love orange...red, ...yellow, aqua.  Ah well, I digress!   So I will be doing more paintings with ORANGE!

Let The Tone Show Challenge "Fall-N-Leaves"

8"H x 8"W  Original Oil 

$75.00 Unframed/ $90.00 Framed in plain black wooden frame.

NLA

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.  Then 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 brush strokes of alizarin crimson,cobalt and dioxine purple in the dark leaves.  I really had fun doing something totally different today.

The Black & White to Color Challenge"Crystal Light"

10"H x 8"W Oil        $115.00 Framed
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This was a really enjoyable picture to paint.  I sort of rearranged things a little bit, as I usually do by looking from a little different angle,making the crystal decanter larger and scooting over the small crystal ball and window closure.

"Lady Slipper"

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

$99.00, S&H to your ZIP

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I love all kinds of orchids and they are the flowers I paint most frequently.  These are just the very tops of an orchid plant I have on my desk.  I had planned to paint the whole plant with the long,long stems and all...but the beautiful flowers themselves would have been lost, too miniature.