A Darker Side…

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But still full of love and beauty. Dark Heart…

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Eating Crow….

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art, Artist, bird, birds, counting crows, crow, crows, cypress, eating crow, faabest, gothic, gothic art, Hillsborough River (Florida), mysterious, mystery, photo collage, photographs, photography, raven, ravens, rivers, sharon cummings, tampa, tampa florida

I absolutely love photography and yesterday I took a walk down to the Hillsborough River in Tampa which is very close to my home.  I have been wanting some nice pictures of crows for awhile now and I got lucky.  The park was filled with them!  I was intending to crop out individual images for use in my collage work, however, this image struck me.  I liked the entire frame.  I enjoy putting together a story using multiple images and layering such as my Eiffel Tower that I listed a few days ago.  One individual recently accused me of stealing images.  Alas, you cannot steal images from the Public Domain…they are there for everyone to use.  Some pictures I just cannot acquire myself such as Hubble Space imagery by NASA and certain landmarks.  Since my imagination seems to have no bounds, I occasionally pull from others who have graciously released their work to the public or images that have never had copyright such as NASA Hubble or images that are vintage and the rights have expired.  I even purchase stock photos from time to time.  Truth be told I far prefer working with my own photographs.  I can do so much more with them as I have the raw files to play with.  You can expect to see some of my crows in space soon. 😉

See my work with CROWS here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/lunch-break-crow-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

Afternoon Delight!

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As I am browsing around Fine Art America today, I stumble across this gorgeous piece titled “Red Lotus Flowers”.  Being the color junkie that I am, I am immediately drawn in.  I love the bright red petals that contrast with the vivid blue sky.   It has so much visual texture in the green leaves and interest.  It looks like something I would hang in my own home.  Much to my great pleasure, I see that this piece belongs to my friend Laura Carter.  She and I go way back to the beginning of online art sales together.  We survived the eBay years listing side by side.  We may go years without speaking, but always rekindle our appreciation and respect for one another now and again.  Laura has a unique style and emotive expression in all of her work.  I took some time to go through her entire portfolio on Fine Art America today and it was well worth it!  This is just a small sample of what Laura has to offer.  Gothic art lovers are in for a real treat!

To learn more about Laura’s work, you can follow her blog here:

http://lauracarteroriginals.wordpress.com/

And you can see her Fine Art America portfolio here:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/laura-carter.html

She has a Facebook Fan page too:

https://www.facebook.com/lauracarteroriginals

And an Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ourhouseabstractart