Amy Charissa Scott


Fine Artist
Specializing in Equine Art



Media



Pastels

Pastels are pure pigment plus a binder compressed into stick form. Pastels are considered the most permanent medium, yet are also fragile. Amy uses a special framing technique to keep the pastels protected and looking brand new. The pastels that Amy uses come in hard, soft, and pencil form, and she uses all three to create paintings that are both richly colored and highly detailed. Primarily she works on velour mounted to a rigid and archival board. Velour (which is soft and slightly velvety in texture) is the best material she has found to hold the level of detail I demand and maintain the pigments' brilliant color.



Oils

Oils are a wonderful and traditional medium well known for their vivid color, natural sheen, and unique translucence. These qualities have helped make oils popular for centuries. One of the most unique aspects of oils is the fact that oil paint does not dry like water based paint. Instead oil paint goes through an oxidation process. It actually takes the better part of six months or longer for oil paints to completely dry, depending on the thickness of the paint. Amy's oil paintings are completed on hand prepared oil primed fine linen canvas, or on an archival panel, depending on preference and sometimes size.



Pen and Ink

Pen and Ink is a marvelous medium that highlights contrast between black and white. Amy enjoys using a variety of techniques, but her specialty is a technique called stippling. This is where the entire image is created with tiny dots, and only dots. There are no lines anywhere in the piece except for Amy's signature. Each and every dot is created one at a time with the use of a technical pen and an archival, waterproof, permanent ink.



Graphite

Graphite drawing showcases gray scale at its best. Amy uses a variety of professional artist grade pencils in varying hardness's and a variety of blending materials to give the work depth. Most often Amy will work on a very smooth white archival paper, but occasionally she will work on a colored paper, and/or a slightly textured paper to achieve the desired effect.



Jewelry

Starting with a piece of jewelers wax and a variety of tools Amy carves each jewelry design completely by hand. This is the way that fine jewelry has been created for centuries. Once the wax carving is completed, hollowed, and polished Amy sends the piece to New York to be molded and then cast into solid sterling silver by a professional caster using the lost wax casting method. Once the piece has been cast and the solid sterling silver piece has been returned Amy will polish, and then finish the piece. This is the stage that a patina, or enamel, or plating would be added.



Glass

Amy works with glass in two very different ways. The first is Engraved Glass. This is where Amy uses a flexible shaft grinder and a variety of bits and materials to grind out and then polish her designs. This allows for very fine line work, and a tremendous amount of detail. The engraved glass just sparkles and is unlike any other media choice. The second glass choice is carved glass. This is where Amy uses a micro abrasive blaster to literally carve at varying depths into the glass. The result is a solid opaque look to the carved portion. When framed with hidden lights these pieces just glow with a luminous quality that is simply magical. The light goes through the clear portion and then refracts on the carved portion so the design shines out of the darkness. It is art that literally glows.



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