Valentine’s Day jitters?  Jewelry, flowers and perfume are so passe.  Your love isn’t old school, so don’t let your gift be either!  Colorful loving art will add a personal touch to your expression of amour.  You can even go a step further and write a love note on the back.  Spray it with your cologne/perfume.  Or how about taping an engagement ring to the verso??

Art is a gift that will last a LIFETIME!!  And every time your loved one looks at it, it will make them smile. 🙂

I have consolidated ALL of my romantic art into one big gallery here:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-sharon-cummings.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=516767

And as a way to show my LOVE for all of my fans and collectors, here is a Valentine’s Day COUPON CODE:  LDJBPK

The code works on everything in my portfolio too. 🙂

SLIP SLIDIN’

Jo Ann Tomaselli ~ Fine Art Photography

A sliver of a moon appears in the blue-hour dawn as sunrise breaks the horizon.

A long exposure paints the sky deep blue and the water silken.

Mother Nature beautifully illuminates the Carolina Coast – yet again.  Amen!

2015

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Google+ by Jo Ann Tomaselli

Winter sunrises and sunsets in Colorado are a treat you can look to most mornings and nights. In January the sun rises about 7am and sun sets at about 5pm give or take a half hour, the point I want to make is more people tend to see them because it is the same time as everyone is going to and from school and work. I hate it because there are a lot of people on the roads, but on the plus side you do not have to get up in the middle of the night to catch the sunrise.

This is a large panorama view with Haystack Mountain in north Boulder County Colorado, looking west to the Rocky Mountains front range above at sunset with a bank of clouds hanging on the continental divide.

Custom Fine Art Prints Haystack Rocky Mountain Front Range Sunset Panorama available here.

Colorado fine…

My Art Has Really Gone To The Dogs! Thank you so much Erin for allowing my work to represent your beloved fur babies. I absolutely L.O.V.E. seeing my work hanging in your homes and work spaces! Keep em coming!

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Love is a messy business sometimes.  My “Hearts On Fire” painting is one of my most often requested commissions.  In the past I was only able to offer custom work and small prints of this lovely piece.  However, I have been able to digitally remaster the original to create a beautiful print.  Now love is easy to own. 🙂

You can purchase a print here:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/hearts-on-fire-romantic-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

“As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.”

– Georges Bizet, French, musician, composer, opera

Although Carmen was not a big success when first presented and performed, it went on to be astonishingly one of top Operas of all time.

Carmen’s extraordinary status transcended the opera house.

Chaplin’s Burlesque on Carmen

Geraldine Farrar in the de Mille movie

The sheer number and variety of forms in which it has appeared and constantly re-emerges is truly astounding and unprecedented for an opera. There were at least seven silent film versions, ranging from sexpots Theda Bara and Pola Negri playing up the sensual side of the character (which became acceptable under the guise of high culture) to Charlie Chaplin‘s 1916 “Burlesque on Carmen,” in which he played Darn Hosiery and…

“Golden Retriever Half Face”

Mixed Media Dog Photo Painting

Sharon Cummings

2015

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This isn’t exactly a “new” piece.  I created a full Golden Retriever quite a few years ago, but my half faced black lab drew a collector in.  She wanted the Labrador Retriever as is to represent one of her dogs.  But she also wanted a Golden to represent the other dog. So I cut the old image in half.  It sounds easy, but it wasn’t a simple process as there was a lot of tweaking involved and she wanted the fur coloring to be more like her pup. An hour and a half later the half face was born.  In the end, she was delighted and bought two prints!  Sometimes less is more…

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