Environmental Awareness Theme Work Earns 2nd Place Award

 "The Last Watering Hole"

Adhesive Mortar, Acrylic, Poster Board, and Toy Cow on Board

Copyright 2022 by Leighton R. Scott 

 

Detail of Epoxy Water

   The work received a 2nd Place Award in the category of Collage/Assemblage/Encaustic/Abstract

at the 50th Franklin County (PA) Art Alliance Member Exhibit held in Fayetteville, PA.

World Premier of New Way to Paint Landscapes!

   At the opening of the Franklin County Art Alliance Annual Exhibition in Fayetteville,  PA on June 12, the first example of a landscape painting based on using Z-Ment Adhesive Mortar will be shown. First, an abstract and rough "priming" of the canvas was done with this interesting material that the artist discovered in 1979 could be used doing highly-textured paintings. Then the sky was done with the same material, mixing in acrylic paints and blending while the medium was still wet.

   The rest of the painting was done with brushes and acrylics. The result is that the canvas reflects light in a more complex way than flat surfaces. While there is less detail than if the painting were done with traditional methods, from a few feet away the eye integrates things to make the painting seem more detailed than it is. And in doing so, the brain is fooled into thinking that it is looking at a real scene that has a lot of depth!

   The artist discovered how mortar adhesive could be used for make wall murals seem to have more depth while working on backgrounds for the Waynesboro Model RR Club. Here is an example of a very small wall section from the club.

  

   This effect needed a name, so for the time being, it is being called, the "Leighton Reflection Effect".  You can be one of the first people to experience it if you visit the show which will run through June 18.

    So without further delay, here is the work you can see at the show- "The View". 

                                                                "The View"

 

                                                                  24" x 36" 

                                         Adhesive Mortar and Acrylics on Canvas

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Abstract, "Climate Change Denied" To Be Exhibited At The Washington County Museum Of The Arts

"Climate Change Denied"

 40" x 30"

Mixed Media on Canvas

Copyright 2019

Detail

     In this striking black and gold painting on canvas we have a unique texture created by mixing adhesive mortar with another proprietary construction material. Both are water-based. The complex surface was all done with palette knives of various sizes. Then a metallic sheen acrylic paint was carefully dry-brushed onto select raised areas to suggest fires. 

     This is one of my "Environmental Series" works. If we neglect to seriously address climate change issues, more and more of the earth's forests will burn and views from above at night could very well resemble the painting.

    "Climate Change Denied" has been juried into the very competitive 2020 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition in Hagerstown, MD, which opens February 2 and runs through April 5.

Works Shown at the Burgin Center for the Arts' Cofrin Gallery

   The 13th Annual Nancy Horton Heefner Memorial Art Show opened September 9, 2018, on the campus of The Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, PA. The show includes more than 60 works from artists from Franklin and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania and Washington County in Maryland. Sydney Caretti (fine-arts faculty member and the Academy’s director of galleries) was the curator of the show, which is open to the public during hours the Burgin Center is in operation.
   This is my 2nd year participating in the show which this year was done in "salon style". My two entries were the contrived photograph, "Fractured Perfection" and the greenish adhesive mortar mixed-media work, "Galaxie Three".

My violin parts photograph lower left center and my 

green mixed-media abstract high right center

Part of the rainy-day crowd

Gallery director Sydney Caretti and a guest

"Fractured Perfection"

"Galaxie Three"

Guest Art Instructor At The Mercersburg Academy May 2

     The artist was invited to conduct four art classes at the Academy on May 2, 2018. He explained how the progression of his mixed-media techniques was influenced by his work history for NASA and NOAA. He also used his new cognitive model of "Relational Intelligence" provides ways of understanding and improving the creative process. 
     I wish to thanks the gallery director, Sydney Caretti for the invitation and the Academy for their wonderful hospitality. It was a most enjoyable day meeting more faculty and interacting with students from many nations.

Participation In Annual Show at the Mercersburg Academy

Sunday, Sept. 10, was the opening of the annual Memorial Art Show at the Cofirin Gallery, Bergin Center for the Arts at the Mercersburg, Academy. I have two works in the show, "Galaxie 4S2" and "Goodbye Rainforest". Both generated a lot of interest. The show closes October 5. My thanks to Sydney Caretti, gallery director, for the excellent job of hanging the show and optimizing the exposure of the two works.

Here are some photos from the event.

"Galaxie 4S2"

"Goodbye Rainforest"

Gallery Director, Syd Caretti

Burgin Center for the Arts, Mercersburg Academy

"Galaxie X-7" a hit at Shippensburg, PA SHAPE abstract show

The annual abstract show at the now relocated SHAPE gallery at 19 East King Street opened Friday, September 2 to a good-sized crowd and live music. 14 local artists participated in the "PARADOX" show, and I was interviewed and the space-themed painting photographed by the reporter for the Shippensburg News-Chronicle, Amanda Mehall.

This work has now been sold.