For Siren and World of her Own I experimented with a texture medium called paper Mache clay. It is glue, spackling paste, and a paper pulp. The advantage is a texture that invites touch. The disadvantage is that once the composition is final it's very final.
I had a lot of fun with the experiment, but the labor involved was so very costly that I didn't find it profitable. I would rather create dimensionality with shading.
After building up the texture I let it dry for a few days and then sealed it in with a acrylic clear coat. I spray painted the whole thing silver. I painted in Acrylic over that. This painting, The Siren took my a whole year, and to date is the largest painting I have made.
It is at the home of my good friends Robert and Zoe.
AmandaScottMaui
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Seed of Hope Surrealism Portrait
Seed of Hope, 6x12 inches, oil paint
and wood burning, $950.00
Seed of Hope is about the ability we
each hold in hour hands, the power to change. It's the seed within
that we can draw from to accomplish our creation. When you look
deeply inward you find everything you need, the wisdom to see clearly
and to bring your life into harmony with it.
Pyrography and Oil Process
I use the characteristics of the wood
to determine the design. I begin with looking at the grain of the
wood, and I wait to be inspired by what my mind imagines there.
Sometimes I get the whole painting in a flash and go looking for the
right piece of wood. Generally I like swirling, water like, patterns.
I may spray a thin layer of metal paint
over the wood, perhaps stain it any color I like, or I will leave it
natural. Then I draw the design out, keeping in mind the flow of the
wood. I blend my lines into the that. Then burn the dark lines in
with a phyrographic tool. All the shading I do with oils.
I will detail the face of my figure,
but only draw out with minimal shading, her companion subject. I like
to blend many styles (drawing, painting) of image making together to
provide interest, and to also express my message which is that change
is constant and that all things are connected. To finish a painting
is to kill it with perfect stillness. I want movement, a sense of
growth, appearing and disappearing of elements.
Transformation in the Fall, Portrait in Oil and Silver Leaf
Artist
Statement for “Transformation” by Amanda Carey Scott
“Transformation”
14x24” Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas, February 2016, $2300.00
She
is reveling in falling leaves, symbol of the changing season. She is
immersed in them, embracing nature. I also suggest that the leaves
are transforming her. Like she is disappearing into them.
I
created this piece wanting to illustrate that not only do we affect
nature, but that it in turn transforms us with mercurial wisdom. In
the painting I do not know if the leaves mean to bury her or give her
wings. I suppose that change is always like that.
The
idea for the painting came to me in a flash and I've spent the rest
of the time painting and learning the meaning of it.
The
Process
The
canvas was gessoed and sanded smooth with many layers until the
texture of the canvas disappeared. I then spayed a layer of silver. I
drew out the figure and started painting. I had meant to keep the
leaves simple. They were moving after all. But then, later I decided
that I loved to paint leaves and detailed a few that were closer to
the viewer. I then added silver leaf and tinted it to look between
copper and gold.
This
painting took over six months to complete because I was learning as I
went and have, therefore transformed it many times, adding layers
upon layers of detail. This painting had a mind of it's own and I
fallowed its lead.
Amanda
Carey Scott
I
came to Maui with nothing, and through the grace of Maui and the many
kind people I met, was able to live here. I had a dream of living
here as an artist. It took me 9 years to make that life a reality. I
have lived on almost every part of this Island. Today Huelo, Maui is
my home.
Hawaiian Mermaid, Lilies of Desire
Lilies of Desire, 12x24 inches, oil
paint and wood burning. $1700.00
Amanda Scott
This painting is about the sensual and
joyful immersion of the senses in nature, specifically what it's like
to take a dip in clear blue water. The lily is a symbol of spiritual
growth. As the story goes, the beautiful flower grows from the muck
at the bottom of the pond. As we are shaped by life's imperfections,
so too we reach for the light and bloom.
Somehow, when I submerge myself in
water I remember the overwhelming power of nature. In stark contract
the earthly cares seem so insignificant; only a nutrient rich mud.
Pyrography and Oil Process
I use the characteristics of the wood
to determine the design. I begin with looking at the grain of the
wood, and I wait to be inspired by what my mind imagines there.
Sometimes I get the whole painting in a flash and go looking for the
right piece of wood. Generally I like swirling, water like, patterns.
I may spray a thin layer of metal paint
over the wood, perhaps stain it any color I like, or I will leave it
natural. Then I draw the design out, keeping in mind the flow of the
wood. I blend my lines into the that. Then burn the dark lines in
with a phyrographic tool. All the shading I do with oils.
I will detail the face of my figure,
but only draw out with minimal shading, her companion subject. I like
to blend many styles (drawing, painting) of image making together to
provide interest, and to also express my message which is that change
is constant and that all things are connected. To finish a painting
is to kill it with perfect stillness. I want movement, a sense of
growth, appearing and disappearing of elements.
So She Seems...nice.
“So
She Seems”, 8x10 inches, oil paint and wood burning, $700.00
Artist
Statement by Amanda Scott
So she
seemed like a nice girl, yet there was something more to her,
something hidden just below the surface.
I would
like to keep this one a mystery, and it is, because it's up to the
viewer to determine if this beautiful and dangerous creature is worth
knowing.
She is
carnivorous, but perhaps she eats only fish. How can you know for
sure?
Pyrography
and Oil Process
I use the
characteristics of the wood to determine the design. I begin with
looking at the grain of the wood, and I wait to be inspired by what
my mind imagines there. Sometimes I get the whole painting in a flash
and go looking for the right piece of wood. Generally I like
swirling, water like, patterns.
I may
spray a thin layer of metal paint over the wood, perhaps stain it any
color I like, or I will leave it natural. Then I draw the design out,
keeping in mind the flow of the wood. I blend my lines into the that.
Then burn the dark lines in with a phyrographic tool. All the shading
I do with oils.
I will
detail the face of my figure, but only draw out with minimal shading,
her companion subject. I like to blend many styles (drawing,
painting) of image making together to provide interest, and to also
express my message which is that change is constant and that all
things are connected. To finish a painting is to kill it with perfect
stillness. I want movement, a sense of growth, appearing and
disappearing of elements.
Spring Maiden Surrealist Portrait Nature Inspired
Spring Maiden, 11x14", oil on copper painted wood, $1200.00
The title given to the most
beautiful virgin of the springtime, A pagan beauty pageant. In this
case, the title has gone to a girl who can speak to birds. She
inhabits such a sweet and serene spirit that the trees call her one
of their own. And the birds, so long as she is still, endeavor to
build a nest in her hair. In this portrait she is discovered for the
first time in her solitude and wonders who you'll prove to be.
Pyrography and Oil Process
I use the characteristics of the wood
to determine the design. I begin with looking at the grain of the
wood, and I wait to be inspired by what my mind imagines there.
Sometimes I get the whole painting in a flash and go looking for the
right piece of wood. Generally I like swirling, water like, patterns.
I may spray a thin layer of metal paint
over the wood, perhaps stain it any color I like, or I will leave it
natural. Then I draw the design out, keeping in mind the flow of the
wood. I blend my lines into the that. Then burn the dark lines in
with a phyrographic tool. All the shading I do with oils.
I will detail the face of my figure,
but only draw out with minimal shading, her companion subject. I like
to blend many styles (drawing, painting) of image making together to
provide interest, and to also express my message which is that change
is constant and that all things are connected. To finish a painting
is to kill it with perfect stillness. I want movement, a sense of
growth, appearing and disappearing of elements.
“
Secret
of Transformation”, oil paint and wood burning, 11 x 14 inches, $1700.00
As
the Ancient story goes a brave troupe of koi swam up steam the
longest river in China, the Yellow river. At the end of their
journey they they found the tallest waterfall, it's heights unknown.
Having accomplished their feat they determined to return down stream.
However, there was one Koi who determined to swim up the waterfall
for the challenge and adventure. Now he or she almost died many
times, but verily, she reached the top, upon which time she
transformed into the dragon. To this day the Koi is a symbol of
worldly aspiration and advancement.
I
see a relationship as a trial such as this, where two people agree to
love and transform each other. In my mind every man is looking for
the woman who holds the key to his transformation from a brave koi
into a dragon.
This
painting is also of a woman who knows the secret of success.
Process
This
work is created on pine wood panel. I used the grain of the wood in
my design, particularly of the water. The lines are burnt into the
wood with a hot tool like a metal tipped pen. I do this to add depth,
and create a tactile element to add variety. My concentration is on
creating multiple dimensions to the representation. Not only is it a
painting, but also a carving. And there is drawing that I have left
unpainted on the koi. The Koi is symbolically unfinished until it
becomes a dragon. The dragon is ethereal so it blends with the silver
of the painted wood, the background.
The
female figure is complete, painted in high detail, though as your eye
travels away from the face she becomes more transparent, her hair
blending and transforming into the water. She is more earthly, while
the koi and dragon are mythical. Her hands, I like to think, are
weaving her earthly hair into the element of water. So this piece is
about bridging the gap between reality and dreams, and also creating
one's dreams on the physical plane.
Amanda
Carey Scott
I
came to Maui with nothing, and through the grace of Maui and the many
kind people I met, was able to live here. I had a dream of living
here as an artist. It took me 9 years to make that life a reality. I
have lived on almost every part of this Island. Today Huelo, Maui is
my home.
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