Watercolor sketches by Gloria Poole

I completed this "Alpine chateau " sketch last night about 3 am. It is a bit blurred on the photo because I am tired and I am always wobbly on my feet when I am tired [because of much metal in one leg, and a lop-sided gait].  Also, this sketch is the third  time I drew / painted a dog. The first time was the sketch I named "woof" of a tiny, white, fluffy dog and it is on another blog of mine. The second sketch I drew of a dog is the University of GA mascot sketch in watercolors that I put on another blog of mine at : https://gloriapoole.blogspot.com.  I am a University of Georgia alum from the business school, which was a second "career" for me, because I was already a RN by that time, and working in that field when I decided to get a degree in Management.

So, I think the black dog looks more like a dog than I thought it would at 3 am! 

Alpine-chateau-sketch-by-gloriapoole; watercolors-2013

The second sketch is a mother at the playground with her toddler and infant, and she is leaning against a log. It doesn't look much like a log but the playground does have logs around some playground equipment.  Sketches help me, which is my main reason for drawing them. I am trying to improve my skills in drawing infants and small children to put on prolife blogs of mine, and to paint in oils. This is a watercolor sketch.  It is not a very finished sketch and the faces were not completed on it. But it's enough to see that I like that theme--of a mother taking her small children to outdoor park to get fresh air and play on swings, and climber thingamajig. 

Mother-and-babies-sketch-by-gloriapoole; watercolors; 2013

 The third sketch is one I drew after being reminded of a similar event in my own life. My two daughters and I ice skated in a few places: Georgia, NY, Virginia. And one of my daughters had a big birthday party event at an ice rink and invited lots of children and I made a cake shaped like an ice skate. It brings back memories. The "oops" name means obviously that skater sort of lost control of one skate and foot turned inward, and she would fall on ice if doesn't catch her balance quickly. 

Oops-ice-skating-sketch-by-gloriapoole

 The fourth sketch is of a lamp as I was trying to learn to create a 3D effect to inanimate objects drawn on paper.  If you see the sort of yellow below the "lamp" you see I was trying to create the effect of the light from under the shade on the table. It needs some work. But perfecting skills takes time. Years ago, I read the biography of Michelango, the artist who painted the Sistine Chapel, sometime in the 1500s [not sure of date]. And it seems it took him sixty years to get that good. So, I learned right then to be patient with myself as I learned to sketch / draw / paint.

red-lamp-sketch-by-gloriapoole-2012

I Gloria Poole , also known as Gloria signed in paint, inks, watercolors, pencils on art I create, and also as gloriapoole; gloria0817; gpoole817; gloria.poole; gloria_poole; gloria-poole; gloriapoole1749; and artist-gloriapoole; and gloriapoole with other numbers after my name; and other identities on web not publicized, own the copyrights to all art I create, in any form, with any method or tool, on any surface, with any medium, in any place, for any reason; unless I sign a bill of sale before a notary public for a particular piece of art I created. I do not have either an artist's rep or a literary agent at this point in time. I have never intentionally signed a blanket waiver of my copyrights.  I do not have any person authorized to use or sign my name but me.

 Also, for the record, I am white, a woman, single [twice divorced], and the biological mother of two grown daughters; and a Registered Nurse licensed in Missouri but for years in Georgia first; and an artist in all mediums. I moved to Missouri on Oct 31, 2009.

 Gloria Poole , at my apt in Missouri; 7-Dec-2013; at 10:20am.