....2 days....2 paintings.....

Video documenting 'Ending'....hopefully the last snow painting of 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXq4cV0eHQQ&feature=player_detailpage

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April Self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzhxkYU3vc&feature=player_detailpage

I liked how the erasure/editing in the last stage of the painting really helped....a useful reminder that in painting, you often have to take away as much as you put in...

The link above will take you to video 4 of 4 videos made documenting this painting. I am posting all my process videos to YouTube. You can find them by typing Harry Stooshinoff into the YouTube search bar.

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Path (Sold)

Acrylic on gessoed thin birch panel 7.5 x 12 inches. I love the intensity of these evening skies in November...it all changes so quickly. This is slightly different format....a longer rectangle....I liked how that affected the outcome.

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Evening Cover, August 26

I was gifted some Canson paper and tried it out....it's not bad. It doesn't absorb paint at all, so encourages use of thicker paint. 9 x 12 inches. I love art papers of all types...always have.... and hope to explore even more types.

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Incoming at Dusk

....a companion piece to the one posted the other day. A number of years ago I started doing these sky scapes with just a bit on land on the bottom....I make a few every now and then when the skies are very active. Acrylic and pencil on single ply archival matte 7.75 x 9.75 inches, signed lightly in pencil.

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November 29, 3:00 p.m.

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....still many responsibilities left in the day....I stole a few moments to leave town limits and look north, homeward. Acrylic and pencil on archival paper, 11 x 15 inches.

 

December 4th

Painted yesterday...the shortest days of the year. This is morning light, but I painted this later in the afternoon when the light was fading. Almost impossible to do these without enough light, but I surrounded myself with standing lamps and it was ok.

Lost Dog Hill, February 12/2010, 2:10 p.m.

Acrylic on gessoed artist's paper, 7.25" x 6.5". Listed on Etsy later today.

Home Way, January

Almost home....snow fell and stayed....but today rain changed things a fair bit. This was painted yesterday....listed on Etsy today.

Memory Work

My preferred method of working for the last week or so, has been from these little 1 minute diagrams pictured here. It's been very pleasant working these out. The advantage of this method is the reliance on memory. All that is diagrammed is the shock of the impression created by 4 or 5 elements in combination....Coyote Hill in snow shown here....the little diagram for it is on the page.

You can see that the sketches have a bit of an 'abused' look....the paper is folded up and lives in my breast pocket. When I see something that I'll paint, a little sketch gets made. This particular page started during a staff meeting....bit of a doodle of a head there, and a few notes deemed important at the time.

Little Tree Hill

9" x 7" acrylic on gessoed heavy artist's paper, listed on Etsy.

I'll always stop and look closely at little trees claiming a hillside...something very hopeful about that. The last 4 or 5 paintings have this combination of the dry yellowish grass with the strong white of snowcover....

Affordable Artwork

Thanks to the folks at Apartment Therapy. for including one of my paintings in their piece about gifting affordable artwork. I made this comment:

"Thank you very much for including my work, and thank you for recognizing that in today's market there are [some] like me....highly trained artists who are selling ORIGINAL artwork at low prices because they wish to completely avoid the overhead and rather large headache of dealing with commercial galleries. All of my work in my Etsy shop is original...and inexpensive. I have for many years laughed out loud every time I've heard the sage advice "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is". True perhaps if you are trying to buy a plasma tv for $50.00. Not true if you are clever enough to look in out-of-the-way corners, and you have the discriminating knowledge and taste to know when you are in front of a really good deal! Thank you for noticing and enjoy!"

How is this possible? I don't have to make the majority of my living from my paintings. And while I am very prolific it still is fairly ridiculous for me to sell my things at the price I do (my old art professors would be shaking their heads). My prices are almost comparable to what people charge for open edition archival Epson prints of their work, ordered on demand.....and mine are originals....once they're gone, they're gone. I am able to do this because I can. I have always been a producing artist and moving artwork quickly out the door is a great impetus for making more. I'll simply document my place in the world as long as I can.

Pasture Hill

I walk by this pasture hill almost immediately after leaving my place. Often cows will graze right on to the top of the clearing. It's a mysterious place. The forest comes in thick very quickly, and gives the impression of proceeding on for miles. There is a path that cuts through, but the forest is also quite wild....lots of coyote chorus from this area at night.

A little 15 second sketch done on the paper that I always keep in my breast pocket for just such things....you never know when you will see something that asks to be painted. The pen sketch was done after coming home from work, about an hour before the early darkness falls, and there wasn't time to do the painting until next day after I finished teaching classes. I was working on the piece in the studio while an AP drawing student was completing works for the design piece outlined a few posts back.

Acrylic collage painting on paper, 10" x 8", listed on Etsy.