Abstract landscape on Yupo 2020 A4
Inks and watercolour on Yupo
Author: Janice Scott
Spectacular Red
Spectacular Red 2019 Oil, cold wax medium and sand texture paste on speciality oil paper. A4
Strawberry Fields
The Thicket
Sun's coming Up
Inspired by our glorious Norfolk winter morning skies!
Red Barn
Another small abstract landscapeI did today. I’m finding Yupo very interesting to work with!
Abstract on Yupo 1
I did this small painting recently, during a break in studying. For this piece, which is A4, I used Yupo synthetic paper (which is a unique plastic-like substrate) and alcohol inks. I also used water colour paint, acrylic inks and paints, as well as Winsor & Newton Pro markers.
Hedgerow and Barn
Did a painting over the Easter holidays, inspired by life at the barn where we were a year ago. I am also fascinated by hedgerow life and conservation. I used acrylics for this piece on stretched canvas. To make the marks, I didn’t use any brushes but potatos cut up to stamp the paint with, as well as cotton buds, cotton wool balls, sticks, pieces of wood and cardboard, even tin foil. I was pleased with the final result and it has received a lot of compliments on Facebook.
‘Hedgerow and Barn’
Acrylics on stretched canvas. Ready to hang – does not need a frame.
22″ x 18″ x 3/4″ or 56cm x 45.5cm x 2cm
Pictures below to show detail and reverse. 
‘Monkey’s wedding’ …
Hey, I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas have a joyous one, filled with everything you need – like happiness, love, family and good friends.
Christmas is not about the gifts, or the tree or the baubles and garish lights festooning so many houses at this time of year but you wouldn’t think otherwise if you visited this planet from somewhere else. As an extra-terrestrial, I wonder if you’d find it all a bit strange when you look around, peer into the crack and see all those many lost people? The people who don’t have anyone to spend the holidays with, the people who are lonely or just alone in a crowd, the people who don’t have any food or place to live and there are many homeless people in this country and all over the world – what a sin that is! In this so-called age of enlightenment, that there are still so many people who have nowhere to live, no prospects, no food, relying on hand outs and hand-me-downs just to keep body and soul together. I wonder if your extra-terrestrial self would stop and think about that while you imbibe the ‘Christmas cheer’ and tuck into the turkey.
I’m not preaching, I’m as guilty as the next when it comes to over-indulging – both in the food and drink and the gift buying. I just hope that the people in my family who have had a right crap year, manage to glean happiness and warmth over this holiday season – we’ll be seeing one of them on Boxing Day.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
I hope 2019 is a great year for you all.
‘Monkey’s Wedding’
A4. Water-soluble oil pastels on Bockingford watercolour paper.
Original Water-soluble Oil Pastels Paintings
Some work I’ve been concentrating on this month – all done on Bockingford paper with Caran D’Ache water soluble oil pastels. Most are either A3 in size or A4:
Abstract Field 1
A4 – landscape
Abstract trees and foreground
A4
Abstract trees and foreground 2
A4
Abstract sky
A4 landscape
Variation on a theme
A4 landscape
Looking out from Glenfinnan monument
A3 – portrait view
Abstract forest with black foreground
A3 – landscape
