P.O.W.E.R.

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As an artist I often create “pretty” things that people love and buy to decorate their homes.  There is nothing wrong with decorative work and I enjoy making it.  However, in this new series called “The Looking Glass” I am getting in touch with a more visceral side of my being.  I am allowing images to form without thought of decor matching or mass appeal.  I am just “being” and what forms forms.  This painting titled “The Samurai” is very powerful to me.  It evokes strong emotions of strength but also of protection and safety.  I’d like this to hang in my entry way to my home.  The colors and image are strong, but the essence is soft and comforting.  What does he make you feel?

More here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-samurai-abstract-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

Also new today….”Life Patterns 1″:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/life-patterns-1-abstract-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

Look What I Found!

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I have really been enjoying creating my new series “The Looking Glass”.  It is so fun and interesting to see what appears when I fuse my original paintings together.  With this piece the entire image formed a dog.  I do see a smiling frog in the center of his forehead and two horses flanking his noggin, but I just found a dog.  Your dog?  It looks like a Universal Dog to me.  It could be any breed and any size.  I love the semi-abstract nature of this painting.  I have found many things in these works, but I really seem to have a knack for finding dogs.  I found this one below in Mastiff Rescue of Florida recently:

 

Who knows what I will find today……

See more DOG here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-found-your-dog-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

You Gotta Laugh

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I find it really helps to have a sense of humor in whatever I am doing.  Creating art is no exception.  Not every painting or sculpture turns out exactly as you envision it in your mind.  Sometimes you get the unexpected goofy piece.  I had to laugh when I fused this painting and “Catman” appeared.  It made me think of my childhood days and some of the funny cartoons we used to watch.  Have a giggle on me today. 🙂

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/catman-saves-the-world-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

ANTS In My PANTS!!

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I’ve always thought that was a funny saying….but it’s true!  I’ve got ants in my pants over my new Looking Glass Series.  The response has been phenomenal and I made my first sale only days after it’s launch.  And I sold a HUGE 84 inch print!  So excited!  But I’ve also really had ants in my pants and I can tell you it is no fun.  Chi Ant isn’t that kind of bug. He’s a lover not a biter.  When I first fused the painting together and saw Mr. Happy bug I thought, that’s weird.  Then I realized the piece made me feel happy.  There is something about his soft pink complexion and content eyes.  There is also a beautiful aqua butterfly looking up at him….and if you look closely a walrus is in there too.

See more here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/chi-ant-aka-mr-happy-bug-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

TIME TRAVEL – Where Would You Go?

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Time travel has been an interest in Science Fiction films and books for many years.  Poets have written about it.  Scientists have dreamed of it.  So far, all we can do is go back in our minds to places we have been or seen before.  If you could go back in time, where would you go?  Sometimes I think it would be cool to go back a few hundred years and see how people acted back then.  But then I remember my Holistic Medicine beliefs…my herbs….my meditation and know I would be burned at the stake somewhere.  Honestly if I could go back, I would not go far.  I’d go back to last Summer and say goodbye to my Dad before he passed away.  I’d go back and spend time with Grandparents, Friends and other loved ones who have passed.  For me time travel wouldn’t be all that exciting to an outsider looking in.  Iced tea and biscuits with Granny would be Nirvana…..Digging up worms with my Dad for fishing would be amazing……Where would you go?

See more here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-time-traveler-surreal-fantasy-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

And while you are at it….a little Nirvana:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/nirvana-pattern-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html