20 Wednesday May 2015
Posted in animals
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African art, animal, animal art, animal paintings, animal prints, animals, camel, camels, colorful animal art, colorful animals, Colorful Art, zoo, zoo animals
“Colorful Camel”
Mixed Media Painting Collage
Animal Art
Sharon Cummings
2015
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MORE HERE: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-camel-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html
12 Friday Dec 2014
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africa, African art, african theme, animal art, animal prints, colorful animals, Colorful Art, rhino, rhino art, rhinoceros, rhinoceros art, rhinos, zoo, zoo animals
“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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02 Tuesday Dec 2014
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animal lovers, animal prints, animals, asia, asian, colorful animal art, colorful animals, elephant, elephant ears, elephant eyes, elephant trunk, elephants, zoo, zoo animals
“Colorful Elephant”
Mixed Media Painting/Collage
Sharon Cummings
2014
Cyber Monday was a raving success!! Now the longest part of the year for me……The first two weeks of December. The hours I work will be a lot longer than normal, but there is light at the end of the Holiday tunnel….Naples here I come!!
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15 Wednesday Oct 2014
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abstract animal art, africa, African art, animal, animal paintings, animal prints, animals, art, Colorful Art, zebra, zebra painting, zebra stripes, zebras, zoo
“Colorful Zebra Face”
Mixed Media Animal Painting/Collage/Vintage Plate
Sharon Cummings
2014
27 Saturday Sep 2014
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africa, african, african theme, animal, animal prints, animals, anniversary, baby, birthday, child, Children, colorful, colorful giraffe, cute, engagement, friend, friends, friendship, fun, gentle, gift, giraffe, giraffes, hide, inspirational, love, loving, maternal, mom, mother, mothering, nature, nursery, play, romance, romantic, safari, sharon cummings, sister, sisters, skin, skins, soft, spots, sweet, tender, wedding, wild animal, zoo, zoo animal, zoo animals
“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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13 Saturday Sep 2014
03 Wednesday Sep 2014
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africa, animal, animals, art, asia, baby, baby's room, balloon, balloons, bright, bright colors, child, Children, circus, colorful, Colorful Art, colors, crib, cute, elephant, elephant trunk, elephants, fun, funny, heart, hearts, humor, kids, love, nursery, paintings, primary, primary colors, prints, safari, sharon cummings, sweet, trunk, trunks, tusk, tusks, whimsical, young, youth, zoo, zoos
“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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28 Thursday Aug 2014
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animal, art, bird, birds, busch gardens, feathers, flamingo, flamingos, florida, pink, pink flamingo, tampa, tropical, tropical birds, zoo
“Flamingo”
Art created with
Pantone Markers and Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Sharon Bratcher Cummings
1993
I’ve always thought flamingos looked a bit like aliens. Their red eyes and long necks pose quite a striking figure. And those pink feathers! Does it get any stranger?
24 Sunday Aug 2014
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africa, african, african theme, animal, animal prints, animals, art, giraffe, giraffes, hide, inspirational, maternal, mom, mother, mothering, nature, safari, sharon cummings, skin, wild animal, zoo, zoo animal, zoo animals
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!
19 Tuesday Aug 2014
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africa, african, animal, animal prints, animals, art, big cat, big cat rescue, black, black and white, brown, cat rescue, College, College Football, detroit, detroit football, detroit lions, dots, Football, football fan, football game, game, game room, game room art, gold, lion, lioness, lions, male, Men, nfl, nfl fan, nittany, nittany lions, penn, penn state, pennsylvania, pointillism, pointillist, pride, proud, proud lion, safari, sharon cummings, sporting, sports, sports art, state, stipple, white, zoo, zoo animals
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!
