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by Janice Tingum
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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.

 
Current & Upcoming Art Exhibits:
      
June 7 - July 31, 2010
 
Community Art Exhibit
Campbell Library
422 4th St. NW
East Grand Forks, MN
 
 

 

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."  Philippians 4:13 

 
 
 
 
My Faith
I was blessed to have parents who loved Jesus very much and shared His love with me. When I was about five years old, my mother explained to me that, even as a child, I was a sinner. She told me how God sent His only Son, Jesus, to this earth and that Jesus died for my sins. I learned that God raised Jesus from the dead so that I could have eternal life with God.

I prayed to God, admitting that I was a sinner and asking Him for forgiveness. I asked Jesus to be my Savior and Lord. That day, I became a Christian.

Later as a teenager, I struggled with what it meant to be a Christian and read the Bible more to learn answers. I re-committed my life to Christ and in obedience to Him was baptized.

Today, I am married and have three children; it is my joy to share Jesus with them. It is very exciting to have a personal relationship with the Creator of the universe and to know that He is the source of our own creativity.

A Bible passage that I have relied upon often in my life is Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."
 
If you would like to know more about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, please e-mail me.