Landscape Paintings ... Harry Stooshinoff

Hedgerow....Overcast

2012-02-17T15:14:00.000-05:00

Acrylic on unprimed Arches paper.

Yellow Hill, February

2012-02-12T18:11:00.001-05:00

Acrylic and pencil on gessoed Arches paper.

February Light

2012-02-11T15:32:00.000-05:00

Saturday Hill

2012-02-08T17:58:00.000-05:00

Greys and muted warms....on an overcast Saturday afternoon.

Evening After the Storm

2012-02-07T17:27:00.001-05:00

Looking into a ravine as evening approaches. The trees were still holding a lot of snowfall.

Acrylic on gessoed Arches paper.

Afternoon, February 3rd.

2012-02-05T13:52:00.000-05:00

Self Portrait

2012-01-29T17:47:00.000-05:00

Watercolour and India Ink.

Back Way

2012-01-28T19:24:00.000-05:00

Watercolor and India Ink on paper.

Millbrook Pond, July

2012-01-27T20:39:00.001-05:00

Watercolour with India ink and brush, India ink and nib.

Yellow Field in Early Winter

2012-01-25T18:48:00.000-05:00

January Field....Blue Shadows

2012-01-22T17:35:00.001-05:00

7 x 7.75 inches. Acrylic collage on Arches paper, with brushed acrylic added in the last stage.

Scrub Hill

2012-01-15T13:49:00.001-05:00

Watercolour, India Ink, and opaque white ink on heavy watercolour paper, 11 x 15 inches.

North Hills, January

2012-01-14T18:33:00.001-05:00

Collage on paper, with acrylic brushed in at the end, and pen and ink added at the end.

Tree Line, Back Acres

2012-01-13T18:10:00.001-05:00

Acrylic on Arches, 8.25 x 6.5 inches.

January Melt, Lost Dog Hill

2012-01-11T23:07:00.001-05:00

....on the sunny side of Lost Dog Hill.....almost all the snow disappears not too long after the first storm of the winter.

Studio Geranium

2012-01-10T18:35:00.001-05:00

Edge

2012-01-08T22:06:00.001-05:00

Heading into the forest....I was surprised that the sky turned warm so early in the afternoon.

Forest Path

2012-01-06T15:43:00.003-05:00

I have avoided walking towards the forest recently, but went that way yesterday. The paths seemed always varied....I'd stop every few minutes and look both in front and behind me....there was a lot of variety in the elevations, and more structure than you might think.

Machine Shed in Sunlight

2012-01-05T15:12:00.000-05:00

Little Stand, Early January

2012-01-03T18:04:00.003-05:00

...the painting from yesterday. These little stands of trees, saved by farmers for whatever reason, always catch my attention.

In these recent collages...there is a conscious interest in keeping the final acrylic brush work to a minimum.

Night, Lost Dog Hill.....January 1

2012-01-02T23:24:00.002-05:00

....the first painting of 2012.....Lost Dog Hill....just as evening turns into night.

Wendy's Hill, New Year's Eve Day

2012-01-01T18:57:00.001-05:00

Little View...Christmas Day

2011-12-31T15:44:00.000-05:00

There is a set path that is often repeated, over many days, seasons, and years. At one bend in the road, I look over a deeply forested valley, up towards the highest hill in the area.....the view is quite obscured by brush and overhang....and this little segment often peeks through.

Near the Tree Farm

2011-12-30T18:46:00.000-05:00

Collage with a bit of acrylic paint at the end......the fresh feel of winter.

Evening, After the Storm

2011-12-29T15:09:00.001-05:00

It was bitter cold as I was drawing the diagram.....ink froze in the pen, so I best change to pencil on the really cold days.

Start, First Storm

2011-12-29T12:26:00.004-05:00

Collage on heavy Arches print paper, with acrylic brushed in at the end stages.

....The beginning of the first storm of the season. Large wet snow flakes stalled the pen as I was drawing the little diagram shown here....there was time only for a few lines, but the collage painting was made soon after, so memory served well.

Lost Dog Hill, Christmas Day, Late Afternoon

2011-12-27T17:27:00.000-05:00

Toward North Field.....Christmas Day

2011-12-26T19:13:00.000-05:00

Christmas Eve Day

2011-12-25T15:56:00.002-05:00

Merry Christmas, All!

Roadside.....Christmas Eve Morning.

2011-12-24T12:44:00.001-05:00

Collage and India Ink.....looking into the forested ditch....off a steep road.

2011-12-23T12:33:00.001-05:00

Watercolor and India Ink...with some collage added right at the end.

Little Hill

2011-12-22T17:28:00.001-05:00

Watercolor and India ink.....ll x 15 inches.

July Sky

2011-12-21T14:19:00.001-05:00

Watercolour with India ink and opaque white ink.

Overcast

2011-12-18T13:39:00.002-05:00

From a small series of new watercolours. This starts with about a 15 minute drawing in 3B pencil....then many layers of watercolour....then pen and India ink, and brush and ink.

10th Line.....December

2011-12-17T12:59:00.000-05:00

...a bit of the first snow showing....

Evening by Lake Ontario

2011-12-13T19:11:00.000-05:00

Rice Lake, North Shore

2011-12-11T18:22:00.003-05:00

6.5 x 6.5 inches. Acrylic collage painting on paper.....perfect summer days....you can't hold on to time, so you revisit, by making a picture. That's one portion of the story.

North Field, Early December

2011-12-10T13:14:00.002-05:00

7 x 7 inches, acrylic collage on paper,....little bits of acrylic brushwork added right at the end.

Little Stand

2011-12-09T18:04:00.002-05:00

Watercolor, India Ink and nib, ink and brush. A little stand, seen from a little country church yard near Millbrook, Ontario.

A Few Watercolour Portraits

2011-12-04T17:24:00.001-05:00

From the last week or so....a few watercolour portraits with pen and ink nib additions.

Overcast, Late November

2011-11-30T15:59:00.000-05:00

Back Fields

2011-11-26T15:10:00.000-05:00

I walked to the very back of a bean field and sat on a ridge....it's often more interesting to get off the roads and see how the land is laid out.

November Sky

2011-11-20T22:05:00.002-05:00

Acrylic collage with acrylic brush work in the final stages. I kept the brush work to a minimum....I sometimes like to do that, just to see how little I can add. I left more of the sky yellow than was there, but there was something of the mood that remained. November can seem like a harsh, dangerous month here, but even though there have been some quite cold days, it hasn't felt very extreme yet. I think I may have tempered the effect here a bit, though....

November Dusk

2011-11-15T17:30:00.001-05:00

....collage from acrylic painted papers at the beginning......acrylic paint over that.

Re-grade

2011-11-11T17:43:00.001-05:00

....a sizeable hill was leveled to regrade a T-junction.

Cedar at Dusk

2011-11-05T12:19:00.000-04:00

....the edge of a big cedar at the start of dusk.....I'm wandering up my usual path.

I scribbled the little diagram never really intending to use it....I thought the composition too odd....I decided to put the colours together last night just to see if I could get a hint of the mood.

Stand

2011-10-30T12:18:00.001-04:00

.....late afternoon....from yesterday's walk up Lost Dog Hill....

Grey and Yellow

2011-10-29T12:50:00.000-04:00

Driving home from work, I was struck by this contrast of two. Painted it when I got home but by then the light was almost gone so had to use artificial light. It turned out ok regardless. A little unexpected touch that survived was the step from the lime green bush, to the yellow, to the grey.......very often when I'm painting with artificial light, the thing looks dramatically different in the morning.

October Ridge

2011-10-19T18:30:00.001-04:00

I walked deep into a harvested bean field...just before the light starts to fade.....getting to be late October.

Hillock

2011-10-16T10:57:00.002-04:00

The collages are as important as the paintings. They take a bit longer to make than the paintings and the mood going into the making is different. The collages are more meditative....more playing around with colour combinations and mumbling to myself....the paintings seem to require a faster flow. In some ways the collages can also allow for greater openness to surprise.

Vapour Trails at Dusk, and Early October

2011-10-16T10:54:00.000-04:00

Dusk, Lost Dog Hill

2011-10-10T15:23:00.002-04:00

Walking in the evenings over the last few days.....weather was perfect and warm....this particular motif has been a favourite for a number of years and I may have painted it over 20 times.

I have some hope that little impressions might in fact be captured, at least in part. Not everything gets made into a painting. I found myself staring through a hedge and wondering about a leaf pattern against a particular sky. And there was a certain purple black that was very appealing against evening turquoise skies with just a touch of warm.....not in this picture, but little collected impressions that maybe get mentally banked.

As small as all these paintings are, just a slight reduction of scale frees up the process a great deal.

Campus Edge

2011-10-09T19:39:00.000-04:00

Campus Field

2011-10-07T14:33:00.000-04:00

Campus Field,
9.5 x 9.5 inches, acrylic on gessoed single ply matteboard

Approaching Home

2011-10-06T15:59:00.001-04:00

Acrylic on gessoed single ply archival matteboard, 10 x 10 inches.

Toward Scriven Road

2011-10-02T12:58:00.000-04:00

Towards Scriven Road. The road was named after Joseph Scriven, who wrote "what a friend we have in Jesus"......I believe he died through accidental drowning in the lake you see here....Rice Lake.

Mansion Hill

2011-09-25T17:08:00.002-04:00

I approached a hilly property from a footpath.....I later researched these acres for sale.....3 beautiful houses on one property.....almost all of it not visible from any road.

Fox Hill, September

2011-09-18T17:04:00.000-04:00

Fox Hill....yesterday........I exaggerated the yellows....fall time seems to be coming in early. It was very cool this morning. I left today's painting a bit late....not much light left right now.

Hydro Ridge

2011-09-11T15:24:00.002-04:00

This little abstraction only suggests the landscape, but the memory of a particular location informed the choices. It was a wonderful steep and wild climb on a narrow path through some hill country.

Football Field

2011-09-10T16:02:00.000-04:00

September Ridge

2011-09-10T09:37:00.000-04:00

Garden Hill, Early September

2011-09-06T18:06:00.002-04:00

Late afternoon on a still, overcast September day. The northumberland hills are so varied.....you can find all sorts of fascinating roads to explore.

I have avoided Payne's Grey in the last little while in favour of black or a warmer grey....in this case set on top of a pink underlayer in the sky.

Cove at Rice Lake, Saturday Morning

2011-09-03T17:17:00.002-04:00

I never capture any of these moods very precisely....but the impetus for this was the way the few blues come together to create a feeling of calm and ease on a lake earlier in the morning....a cove at Rice Lake.

Guard

2011-09-02T16:29:00.000-04:00

Rain Day

2011-08-24T16:36:00.004-04:00

A very nice grey day.....August has had plenty of rain while July was totally dry. Looking into Coyote Hill near midday.

The bottom field caused problems in this painting...I changed it a number of times. The value remains fairly close to the dark of the back forest....not ideal in spacial terms.

Rice Lake, July

2011-08-21T18:39:00.002-04:00

Small acrylic collage painting on pine, 6.5 x 7.25 inches.

August Blue

2011-08-19T17:26:00.003-04:00

.........driving home on a hot August afternoon from a day trip north.....looking down into the cool blue of Rice Lake....almost home.

There is a certain blue of summer....involving lakes and distant boats and trees and rocks....giving us the sense that we're exactly in the right place.

Presentation of Small Paintings

2011-08-17T11:54:00.003-04:00

Many thanks to Jill Harris for sending along these pictures showing how she framed and presented a grouping of my landscape paintings in her lovely home. She shows an interesting way of using a larger space to present smaller works as one unit. Thank you Jill! I really enjoy seeing how people present and place the work.

Saturday Drive Home

2011-08-14T17:42:00.002-04:00

Even as small as my pictures are, scale remains very important. This painting for example, is 6 x 6.25 inches. I felt that making it even marginally bigger would not have been right. Even at this scale, there is a certain size that encouraged greater abandon.

August Cloud

2011-08-13T16:59:00.003-04:00

I was far back in a harvested field of barley. Returned home and started painting...the light was fading and a thunderstorm quickly passed by. As strange as the lighting was while I was painting this, I rather like the odd effect. I try not to paint with artificial light if I can help it, but the light was fine at the start and then it got really dark during the storm.

Walking Home

2011-08-12T16:20:00.006-04:00

Walking home as the light starts to fade. I liked how that pink white cloud was peaking out at its gentle, odd angle. Every so often I return to the advice "paint only what is in the initial idea as simply and forcefully as possible....no embellishment". You can see just what was in the 30 second diagram. I considered making the painting even smaller so there would be room for absolutely nothing but the original idea or motif.

On another point, greens can be notoriously difficult when we are talking about a tonal observational type of painting, which in part, this is. Intense greens can refuse to lie down and can seem to upset the chemistry of the colour relationships. Even with complementary mixing, some greens can be too energetic. For years I avoided mixing with black, in favour of a complementary mixing system. In this case I did mix with a warm black and was pleased with the results. I'll experiment with mixing greens in this way a bit more.

Coyote Hill, Deep August

2011-08-11T18:30:00.001-04:00

I was ambling down a high hill in late afternoon....morning had a violent thunder storm with plenty more rain, all of it welcome. Late afternoon was pleasant and breezy, with the evening cooling off considerably. The nights are starting to suggest that summer is ending.

Wet Sunday

2011-08-10T17:41:00.001-04:00

I pulled over high on a hill on a wet Sunday morning and watched the sky slowly move.

Evening, Early August

2011-08-09T17:41:00.000-04:00

.......I wandered far back on the tractor trail of one of my favourite fields...getting near dark on a warm, humid evening......

Hidden Place

2011-08-08T17:53:00.000-04:00

.......I like this country place I often pass by....very hidden and nicely treed. Into evening, with more than half the summer gone.

Tired Man

2011-08-05T16:59:00.001-04:00

Small pen and India Ink drawing, with wash, on thin paper laminated to single ply matteboard, 3.75 x 5.5 inches.

After the Rain

2011-08-04T15:56:00.000-04:00

This started out as a painting and turned into a collage halfway through....I don't usually start that way. Usually, if it's a collage I start by cutting and gluing and then brushwork happens at the end.

Hiding

2011-08-02T17:49:00.002-04:00

Sometimes there is a desire to make with less information....to not know what or how. I have a huge box of these acrylic painted papers. I start cutting and tearing. They are about design, but they are associated with specific experience/memory as well.

July End

2011-08-01T17:28:00.001-04:00

A bittersweet time.....the crops ripen....one wants summer to go on forever.

Evening, Lost Dog Hill

2011-07-25T16:04:00.000-04:00

2011-07-22T18:45:00.001-04:00

It was very hot but still pleasant when I diagramed and painted this a number of days ago...now it's almost drought conditions.....hoping for rain soon.

Living Low in Australia, Mr. Kitly Gallery

2011-07-22T18:07:00.005-04:00

I forgot to mention earlier, I was part of a show at Mr. Kitly gallery, in Brunswick, Australia, titled "Living Low". Here's a gallery shot, one of my paintings and a lovely vessel. The painting is an example of one of my few oils. Wouldn't it be great to do a painting trip in Australia!

Mr. Kitly is at http://www.mrkitly.com.au/

Little Grove at Dusk

2011-07-21T18:23:00.002-04:00

One of the pieces made with no visual reference, and no initial intention to make the piece into anything but a relation of colour, shape and line.

Saturday Morning Blue

2011-07-17T18:54:00.002-04:00

Saturday morning on the yard sale trail. I liked how the little white development in the far distance was entered, but the sky wouldn't sit right....so I removed the whole thing by holding it under the tap and gently rubbing.

Wendy's Hill, Early July

2011-07-15T18:39:00.002-04:00

Midday in early July....a small painting on unprimed paper. In each of these little works I seem to be continually both accepting known methods, and on the verge of rejecting almost everything. The style changes as a result. Sometimes a few steps in one direction are taken back, only to reappear a few pictures forward.

Nearing Dusk, Early July

2011-07-13T17:50:00.001-04:00

Process

2011-07-10T14:39:00.002-04:00

Knowing the inevitabilities gets annoying, so something like this is a chance to oppose that, even though I know I'd still repeat a lot of the habits in the process. Acrylic on matteboard, 8 x 10 inches.

Pile, Early July

2011-07-09T17:17:00.003-04:00

8 x 9 inches acrylic on watercolor paper.

June Hill

2011-07-08T18:27:00.001-04:00

Yellow Wedge

2011-07-06T19:56:00.000-04:00

The farmer divided his field into sectiions. He is very conscientious, coming every few days to check the progress of growth.

Lake Ontario at Cobourg

2011-07-05T16:21:00.001-04:00

This was the first painting on the more textured watercolour paper that I'm trying to use up. The morning was way more hazy than this......a very pleasant, windy morning.

Rogue

2011-07-04T17:43:00.001-04:00

8 x 9.5 inches on heavy, watercolor paper. The underpainting is done in very transparent acrylic washes, opaque, heavier impasto on top.

Canada Day, 3:00 p.m.

2011-07-03T17:36:00.000-04:00

June 30th

2011-07-01T18:34:00.000-04:00

Towards Lake Ontario

2011-06-30T14:29:00.003-04:00

These last 2 small works were done on unprimed paper....that's what I started painting on many years ago, but almost everything lately has been done on primed paper. It felt good getting back to the 'raw' surface. Every little change in procedure is significant in the flow of the work.

June Evening, North Field

2011-06-29T13:28:00.000-04:00

Encaustic Head

2011-06-19T15:21:00.002-04:00

Encaustic on thin plywood panel, 8.25 x 10.5 inches, bits of paper collaged in with the wax.

Head

2011-06-18T18:00:00.001-04:00

Encaustic on unprimed thin plywood panel, 7.25 x 10 inches.

Early Evening

2011-06-17T17:04:00.001-04:00

Encaustic on thin plywood panel, unprimed, 8 x 7.5 inches.

August, Lost Dog Hill

2011-06-16T19:11:00.001-04:00

Encaustic on plywood panel, unprimed, 8 x 10 inches.