I was contacted by the curator of an organisation called ‘Edge of Humanity’ magazine a while back and was asked to contribute a series of images of my work for their ‘No Middleman Gallery’. I am so suspicioius these days of anything that may or may not resemble a scam but from what I’ve been able to see online, these establishments seem to be genuine. Has anyone in my circle of WordPress friends come across this lot before, could you offer any comment that might help me? The scope and standard of artwork in this virtual gallery of theirs is mindblowing, can’t imagine why they would want my stuff!!! 🙂
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Kelp – work in progress
Acrylics, inks, collage and gels on large stretched canvas 120x100x4cm
#helpourkelp
This has ended up being a bit of a work in progress, I am doing some more tweaking on it and will publish the final piece soon.
Encaustic
I am in the process of setting up my studio space in order to produce some encaustic pieces. I will be working on these pieces next week.
In the meantime, I have been concentrating on study work as well as a very large mixed media canvas that has kelp as its subject (more on that when it’s done). Here is some recent work:
Surfacing
Some course work
These are a few things I’ve been doing lately as part of my Painting 1 coursework.
interior – tone study 
assignment work – one of six pieces 
assignment work – one of six pieces 
Monoprint – seated pose
I am getting quite interested in monoprinting, no good at it yet but interested in it!
Greetings
I hope all the people who visit this site are keeping safe and not venturing out unless it’s absolutely necessary. I am working on my studies at the moment and have completed a few pieces that I like:
Life is very different now but we will prevail. See you on the other side!
More goofy flowers
Goofy flowers in a vase
Been trying lots of loosey goosey techniques this week. Quite like the goofy charm of this one..
A4 water-soluble oil pastels on paper
Oil Bars
Apologies for such a long time in posting any arty updates – been lots of family things to sort out lately, I’m quite exhausted by all of that, so let’s get on with it hey?
I discovered Winsor & Newton Oil Bars quite by accident and only have a small selection at this stage. But boy am I enjoying this new found freedom. I am still doing fiddly small things while I get used to manipulating the oil bars on different surfaces. These are some of the more recent things I did over the weekend.
‘Patchwork landscape with blue’
14.5″ x 10″ or 37cm x 25cm – actual painting size.
Acrylic inks, oil bars and oil paints on acrylic art pad.
Surface worked with sgraffito technique
‘Poppy field’
9.5″ x 6.5″ or 24.5cm x 16 cm
Acrylic inks, Oil bars and oil paints on Daler Rowney acrylic paper
Surface worked with sgraffito technique
‘Poppy field with buildings’
7″ x 5″ or 18cm x 12cm
Acrylic inks, oil bars and oil paint on mixed media paper.
Surface worked with sgraffito technique
I am also working on a largre canvas piece, as well as a larger landscape piece but these aren’t ready to put up here yet.
Hope you enjoy!
Howdy …
Well I am settled and most of my art materials are unpacked. I believe I am so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of South Norfolk.  I walk down our driveway and turn left, immediately I’m in a large wheat field.  Further along there are fields of rape seeds bursting with that electric neon yellow.  On the morning walks with our little dog, all you can hear is hundreds of birds calling to each other, the hedgerows are alive with whirring, chirping and warbling. (I refuse point blank to say twittering)
Once all my stuff is sorted out, I’ll be posting more work – bear with me for a few more days!
Prints!
I can now offer high quality signed colour prints of my work, mounted onto stretched canvas. See below example. Price on enquiry.
New Mixed Media painting
‘Sunset trees in Snow’
Mixed media – soft pastels, acrylics, Pebeo gold metallic foil for water accent on Daler Rowney System 3 Acrylic paper – A3 size.
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Grounds … and difference each one makes to finished pastel paintings.
Yep, changed the theme is … not sure if people like this design, please let me know if you think it’s irritating and I’ll revert back to the old theme!
I did a painting with these chalky soft pastels that I received over Christmas of a Norfolk windmill with storm clouds looming in the background – I thought the dark sky would make for an interesting contrast with the colours of the buildings, bathed in sunlight.  However, I just could not get the intensity of the background right – I was using a watercolour paper and even though this was a very expensive ground, it was completely incorrect for this style of picture.
Then today I did another painting (larger than the windmill one) of a landscape on precoloured (sand/khaki) roughly textured very cheap paper and the results were noticeably different. I’m pleased with the way this one turned out, as the reference photo I used was from a very old book I have Scottish landscapes that are now mostly gone to urbanisation and the photo was ‘green’ and very dull. This one is 14″ x 10″ …
I should get my new materials, paper etc. next week and am really looking forward to trying it all out.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Footnote:
Due to the fact that the windmill pastel painting was done on watercolour paper, I discovered that by using water, I was able to get a much darker effect with the background.
I adjusted the other painting (now framed, ‘scuse crap photo) , took out the boats in the right hand mid section of the loch and change the sky (It was very naive in the first attempt).
Ink landscapes
Yes, I’ve been absent from WordPress for quite a while … the whole of November has been a bit of a bugger up on my side – mainly because I’ve been in and out of hospital. I’m on the mend now and getting stronger all the time but it’s been a very long, stressful and frustrating process, don’t recommend it.
I was doodling about with inks recently, just to see if I could still do something artistic while I was feeling so down.  So here are the results … one (the daisies) was a request from a friend of my daughters, I hope she likes it.
“Daisies” 10″x 8″x ½” Inks on Streched Canvas
“Inky summer sky and field” 14″ x 10″ Inks on A3 mixed media paper 250gsm
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Winter Robin
To all my friends and WP fellows, hope you have a lovely Christmas (if you celebrate it) and a great New Year …
Photo
Fuschias
Spinning water droplets  (telephoto)
New work – April
‘Windy day at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk’
Acrylics, collage (silk material), effect paints on stretched canvas.
24″ x 18″
Some close ups to show textural detail:
Janice Heather Scott 