Gloria J Zucaro "Week in Review"

Hello PPF Friends,
Here are the projects I completed this week as well as two drawing/paintings using prompts set up by Tori Weyers of Drawriot.  I will start from the last done to earlier in the week. If you are interested in a little more explanation you can just go to my blog and see each project.  www.gloriajzucaro.blogspot.com

Have a great week and I would love it if you would leave a comment when you have time. Be sure to check all the other projects from PPF, too!
Thanks~Gloria

From the prompt "Turquoise" with Tori Weyers

I was inspired by this quote-"She would be half a planet away floating in a turquoise sea, dancing to flamenco guitar"by Janet Fitch in "White Oleander".

From the prompt "Boat"

Journal Pages with Rachel Greig

Quote "Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." by Maya Angelou

Layering with Rae Missigman-Quote "The purest and most thoughtful

minds are those which love color the most"- John Ruskin

With Gina Rossi Armfield

With Gina Kim Lee

Gloria J Zucaro's "What's Done is Done Again"

For a couple of years I was doing pen and ink drawings with doodles.  I was posting them here and on my page on Facebook Gloria J Zucaro in Pen & Ink especially for those drawings. On Instagram recently I saw Tori Weyers was doing daily drawings inspired by a prompt(word) each day of January. I decided to try it when I could fit it in my schedule. Here is my first one. I truly don't know where these crazy ideas come from! The January 17 prompt was "Boat".

Gloria J Zucaro's CJS 2017 with Tori Weyers"

I am finally caught up!  Today I tried an abstract a la Tori Weyers.  I did okay until the ink part, then I messed it up so added some gesso to it and felt it still looked okay.  But I am definitely going to try this again and get it right!

Tori didn't have a spiral journal so her two page spread was more cohesive.  I did photograph each side separately even though they were done at the same time.  

Showing below, going backwards from the final above.

Have a wonderful weekend.  If you could leave me a comment, I would be so happy! :>)

Thanks,

Gloria

Gloria J Zucaro's "A Week With Jean Mikel Basquiat"

Hello there.  This week with Creative Jumpstart 2016 was inspired by Jean Mikel Basquiat.  I am posting to Paint Party Friday.  Thank you Eva and Kristin for hosting. I had instructive videos again this week and will show you the resulting projects below.  If you want to see the steps for each one, you can go back to my posts each day this past week.

with Birgit Koopsen

with Tori Weyers

Ideas from Paula Phillips and Diana Trout

with Jodi Ohl

Have a great week everyone.  Please leave a comment if you are so inclined.

Gloria

Gloria J Zucaro's "My Basquiat Queen"

The second artist instructor in the group using Jean Michel Basquiat as inspiration is Tori Weyers.  I learned so much from her layering techniques!  I am also learning about how you can pick apart another artists work and get to understand their style a little better.  I am more appreciative of Basquiat's art now than when I started.

My Basquiat Queen

The steps are below

Done with Gelatos and NeoColor Watercolor crayons

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Add Gesso

Next paint over magazine pages with warm and then cool colors.  That is Gwen Stefani in an Ulta add.  Also look for large test.

There are also small pieces of paper painted in the similar warm and cool paints.  I glued on the cut-out of the head then added some pops of color.

I glued on torn pieces of paper and text and a small picture.  I used the large word "Finally" as the base for her crown.  Basquiat used the crown symbol in a lot of his work.

I added more gesso, stream of consciousness wording, little drawings, stars and scribbles and details on the face and hair.

I hope you enjoyed my process.  See you for the next Basquiat!

Gloria