It’s A Looooong Story…

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With a colorful result! Elephant art with bright primary colors.

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Beauty And The Beast…

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Lions and flowers, both are beautiful and either can be beastly…My newest art “Beauty and The Beast”…

Cute and H.O.R.N.Y…

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“Looking Up”

New Animal Art Prints

Mixed Media Painting/Collage

Sharon Cummings

2014

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I know you had to get your mind out of the gutter. 😉

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Colorful Stripey Z.E.B.R.A…

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“Colorful Zebra Face”

Mixed Media Animal Painting/Collage/Vintage Plate

Sharon Cummings

2014

A Lion’s R.O.A.R…

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“Colorful Lion”

New Art Mixed Media Painting

Sharon Cummings

2014

Today is one of those days where I just don’t seem to be able to get anything done! I’ve been spinning my wheels all morning and have gotten nowhere.  Dryer is broken. Needed groceries.  Dog is injured and needs care.  House is a mess.  And another site wants my artwork.  So here me “Rooooaaarrrrrr”……

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I’ve Got Your B.A.C.K…

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“I’ve Got Your Back”

New Mixed Media Art

Sharon Cummings

2014

Whose got your back?  In my lifetime, I’ve heard the words many times, but have learned that only a precious few have actually meant it.  I can count on my fingers the friends and family that have truly been there for me through thick and thin.  Today I solute them and am thankful that I only have ONE back. 😉

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Showing My S.T.R.I.P.E.S…

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“Colorful Zebra”

New Mixed Media Art Painting

Sharon Cummings

2014

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El…..L.O.V.E…..Phant!

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“Elovephant”

New Mixed Media Art Work

Sharon Cummings

2014

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This piece is a mixed media piece combining a vintage photograph, design elements and an original painting that I have not listed yet.

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N.E.V.E.R. Give Up!

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I remember this piece very well.  I almost threw it away.  I spent many hours using Pantone markers and Prismacolor colored pencils getting the details of their fur just right.  I wanted the eyes to have expression and depth.  I was pleased with it’s progress until I tried to create a background.  For some reason the grass and trees weren’t coming out the way I envisioned. They seemed too bright and did not look as good as the animals.  I was crushed!  Then I thought I could save it by making the background solid black.  You can still see some of the black around the mane.  But that didn’t work either.  Finally in a last ditch effort to save all of my hard work, I got my x-acto knife and started the grueling task of cutting the giraffes out.  I had to be so careful.

In the end, I decided to make a separate black border and mounted it that way to present to my teacher for grading.  I got an A and it was selected for the annual school art show.  As a result of it’s exhibition, I sold my very first print in 1993!

To The P.O.I.N.T…

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As promised, I am sharing more of my work from my art school days.  I did not do much painting back then.  My degree slants toward the commercial side, so I used pencils, pens, and markers as my primary mediums.  One of the good things about schooling is that often you are challenged to try techniques that you would not have chosen otherwise.  My “Proud Lion” above is creating using what is called “stippling” and is referred to as pointillism in art terminology.

This was created nearly 25 years ago.  There was no computer help.  The entire piece was done by hand using an ink pen on white cardboard.  Many countless dots over and over again (including what looks like solid black) make up his shapes and shadows.  I had to “draw” him in my mind and couldn’t rely on printing out something I could dot over.  Nope.  It’s all handmade.  In the close up, you can see the irregularities in the dots which is a dead giveaway that no computer was involved.

I am not knocking computer work.  I use it all of the time now!  I am simply remembering the cramped hands and cross eyes of yesteryear. 😉  I also appreciate the fact that nowadays you can make mistakes and quickly fix them.  Back then there were a lot of “do overs”.

Times have changed, but true art remains……timeless.

More to come from my old portfolio soon!