Janice Tingum started painting in 2000, beginning with watercolor scenes featuring the beautiful country churches in Traill County, North Dakota. Since then, she has expanded her experience to acrylic and oil paints and broadened the subject matter of her paintings to include rural and city scenes, still lifes and abstracts.
Janice enjoys experimenting with painting methods, which led to the publication in 2008 of her electronic book, Creating Texture with Watercolor & YUPO Synthetic Paper. She is also the author of the instructional e-book: The Beginner's Watercolor eBook: Start Painting Today.
Janice is a graduate of Mayville (ND) State University and of the University of North Dakota School of Law. She is a member of the Red River Watercolor Society (RRWS) and River Forks Watercolor Society (RFWS).
An award-winning author, Janice’s story, “Grandma’s Purse”, was selected as one of the winners of the 2005 Highlights for Children Fiction Contest award. She is the author of a children’s biography, E.B. White: The Elements of a Writer, published by Lerner Publishing Group.
Interviews with Janice Tingum available online:
* SCBWI Dakotas June 2006 newsletter - click here. This is a pdf file and the interview is on page 3 of the newsletter.
* Dimensions: February 2006 - a publication of the University of North Dakota - click here.
Other publications:
*The Trouble with Buddy, an entertaining children's story based on the real-life adventures of my famiy dog, is featured on StoryTimeFriend.com. This story and others are read outloud by the site's host, Greg Molinaro. Click on Sample Stories and select Tuesday to listen to my story.
* Lost in Cyber Space: Searching for world peace and missing socks online (a humorous essay) appeared in the January/February 2007 issue of Today's Christian Woman magazine.
* Busted Bottles and Crushed Cans - 24-Hour Short Story Contest Honorable Mention award from WritersWeekly.com, Winter 2006.