Gloria J Zucaro

I began painting in the 1980’s and participated in art shows during the next fifteen years. I also practiced mosaics, stained glass, and machine quilting. In 2004 I began to paint predominantly in oils and pastels. This year I added drawing and watercolor to my interests. Each medium offers new challenges and opportunities for growth. My paintings have sold to the McHenry Government Center for their permanent collection, to patrons of ARTcetera at The College of Lake County, and are in private collections in Washington State, Montana, and Illinois and Texas. I participated with other members of the Hoffman Estates Art League on a mural project for the Spring Valley Nature Center in Schaumburg, IL. and with five other HEAL members completed individual murals for the exhibition house at The Crabtree Nature Center in South Barrington, IL. I belong to the following artist associations; The Chicago Pastel Painters and The Oil Painters Of America. I love to paint! My goal continues to be to express myself through my painting, by choice of subject and color.

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		dabickford over 1 year love the profile pic - I grew up with cows...I can feel the breath on this one
		Arlissa Vaughn about 2 years Thank you Gloria! Did you know you can vote every day from now until April 30?
		Arlissa Vaughn about 2 years Will you vote to empower emerging artists? http://dld.bz/tyj Thnx from a fellow artist :)
		Elly Wright over 2 years Hello Gloria, Thank you for your comment. Yes we have had more snow than usual, but probably not much if compared to you. Apparently even the sketchbook show in Brooklyn had to be postponed last Friday due to SNOW. I've not been able to work a lot, but hope to resume shortly as I am getting very frustrated ! It's the old work ethic nagging me. Life sometimes just takes over in other areas. Best wishes, Elly
		Malinda Jasper over 2 years Hi gloria, thank you for you comment on my Jester cat. My cats would have a fit if I were to put any kind of costume on them. I will respect their wishes and not put them through it no matter how tempting:-) So, to answer your question, I came up with that one on my own. I hope to see more animal portraits by you. Thank you for accepting my friendship. xo
		Adele Castillo over 2 years Your "short bio" made me smile. Perfect!
		Donna Drozda over 2 years Hi Gloria Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment. I enjoyed very much visiting your website and seeing all that you're involved with ... good medicine! Your bovine head is formidable! :-)
		Elly Wright over 2 years Thanks very much for your comment. I like your aqua and orange - the looseness of the background and then the tighter imagery in front. Beautiful.
		Lisa Skyheart Marshall over 2 years well, Peggi Kroll-Roberts was all about the figure, but Loose figure, and I work tight, so I thought that would shake me up a bit, because she really gets down to basic shapes and lights and darks. I love how loosely she works and yet it reads right. However, the oil turps unfortunately added to my weeklong bout with a migraine headache, so that was a bummer. Donna Howell-Sickles is just so into the basic drawing, and I am sort of into that myself; it's really the basis for what I do after the imagination part; I have to work it out in a drawing. Again, that workshop was an emphasis on the figure. The great thing about Donna was that she had us work really LARGE, and I work very small, so that shook up my world there. Sherrie we also drew a lot of short timed, quickdraw figure work. Also some longer work. Worked only in conte pencil and charcoal. It was the first time I had ever been in a workshop where we actually ate lunch together outside at SAS, and went out for a goodbye get-together after the workshop; an intimate group, it was nice, and supportive. Of course after doing all of those workshops, I began to know the models, Ha!!
		Nancy Martini over 2 years Thanks... I look forward to seeing what you do with the color project. I'm still on the fence deciding if I want to do that one yet.