January Snow on Hope Hill

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Acrylic and pencil on gessoed Whatman paper, 10 x 15 inches.

 

Trail on Lost Dog Hill

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Lost Dog Hill in the deep of winter, 11 x 15 inches, acrylic and pencil on unprimed, archival paper. After days of freezing temperatures, today it's lightly raining and melting...but very slowly.

January Afternoon....Lost Dog Hill

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Acrylic and pencil on gessoed Whatman paper, 10 x 13.5 inches. The last painting from Christmas holidays....... (Sold)

Remember........

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January Evening, 2014, the coldest days of the year so far, 11 x 15 acrylic and pencil on gessoed Whatman paper (sold).

It helps to make 1000s of pictures. This is a continuum. It helps to remember past days and painting sessions from all areas of earlier experience. In this case, I was remembering a work session from ages ago. I was a student at the University of Saskatchewan. It was winter....very cold....I was in 2nd or 3rd year fine arts. It was a fairly arduous journey to get from where I lived to my workspace on campus. To put in evening painting sessions after classes you had to really want to get there! I always preferred to work on the floor, and I sometimes would work on 2-3 pictures at a time. Sometimes paint was poured. Very little was predetermined in the picture, and anything could change quickly. Even then, visual surprise was always searched for. In the evenings, there was usually no-one in the studio...maybe me and one other person, maybe one professor....you could count on some very pleasant solitude and maybe some insight from the other person if you went in search of it. I remember learning things in those evening sessions....understanding one or two things about painting. But mostly I remember how fresh the experience felt. It can help to remember......

Elizabeth O'Reilly

 

For a long time now, I've been very impressed by the work of Elizabeth O'Reilly, both the small oils and the collages made with cut up watercolour sections. It is this old idea of seeing the world very figuratively, but also understanding and showing so eloquently, that everything is a wonderful abstract arrangement. And of course, there is also the idea that small paintings are just fine...in fact, they may be bigger, than big paintings.

 

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Playing With My Toys....

 

Playing with my toys....they are like toys, a bit....you can carry them around with you, lean them up on your coffee cup, lean them against the TV while you watch, or lean them on a shelf, or shuffle them up like cards.....or you can give one to someone you like...but then you can't look at it anymore...

 

Each card image is an original piece of art signed H. Stooshinoff.

 

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Some New Greeting Cards

 

Here are a few new greeting cards, 5 x 7 inches, blank on the inside, with some original images on the front. I love printing on old book papers....the rag content in the paper is high, and it takes the printers' ink and watercolour so nicely. One image is also a little acrylic collage. Everything looks so beautiful when you put it in a plastic sleeve! These 4 are in my Etsy store now.

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

 

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Fallow, Late August

I just now finished my 2nd one in this series. These are just a touch bigger...and a bit different. I'm quite glad that the work changes subtly over time, with little plan from me.....little hunches are enough to move things forward. 11 x 14 inches, acrylic and pencil on gessoed Whatman paper.

White Flock, Near Rice Lake.

Pencil and acrylic on gessoed Whatman paper, 6.75 x 9.75 inches. I think the aim was to park on top of the high hill and just sit there and look for a half hour.

My apologies to anyone who has been looking for new work here in the last months....I have been posting new work and comments almost daily to Facebook. Please find me there if you wish to see the daily pieces. I will come back to this space after a period of time....but Facebook seems easier at the moment.

Fox Hill, Second Thaw, January

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I couldn't post for a long while because blogger wouldn't let me add pictures....glad they fixed that! The start of the second January thaw....within a few days all the snow would be gone...again! 11 x 15, acrylic and pencil on archival paper.

Wendy's Hill, January 1

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...looking toward Wendy's Hill, the highest feature near me....late afternoon of the first day of the new year! The view is a bit elusive and takes some careful positioning....a few steps in either direction and the hill disappears. Acrylic on archival paper, 9.5 x 7.5 inches.

Tommy's Hill, December 30

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...a cold, crisp day, now with good snow coverage. Looking north, the sky still has bits of blue, but already, near 4:00 pm, the southern and eastern sky has dramatic yellow and rose. Someone has a smokey bonfire going by the little red shed.  Acrylic and pencil on unprimed archival paper, 6.75 x 8.25 inches.

Snow Day, December 29

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....December 29...a light but steady snow fell all day. I had only about 10 seconds to try and diagram the motif before my ballpoint either froze or quit working on paper made wet by the snow.

This is a collage painting....large glued shapes from acrylic painted papers in the first stages, with acrylic in-painting and some pencil work overtop. The mood established seems pretty close to what the day felt like.

8:10 a.m., December 28

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There are few things more hopeful than the warm light of morning...it makes all things seem possible. Acrylic and pencil on unprimed Whatman archival paper, 7 x 10 inches.

Low Side, December 26

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Unless the snow is overly deep, it's better to walk off the roadside. Within the fields the views open up. Over the next hill you can see for miles....the low side of the field here, next to the hedgerow. Acrylic and pencil on archival unprimed Whatman paper, 10 x 7 inches.

Christmas Day, Southwest Sky 3:00 p.m.

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...My Christmas day painting. I walked later in the day....towards 3:00 p.m. the southwest sky already shows the intense yellow green signifying the early stages of sunset. 10 x 7 inches, acrylic and pencil on unprimed archival Whatman etching paper.

Christmas Eve Day, On Lost Dog Hill

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Christmas Eve day on Lost Dog Hill....early afternoon.....overcast but calm and not overly cold. 8.5 x 6.75 acrylic and pencil on unprimed Whatman etching paper.

Near Wendy's Hill, December 23

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...a favourite painting spot for a variety of reasons. It's close to home and I like the hills and odd lay of the land. Acrylic on Whatman etching paper, 13.75 x 10 inches.

Rainy Sunday

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....from last Sunday...it rained for most of the day but it was pleasant for walking nonetheless. Acrylic on archival paper 12 x 9.25 inches.

Coyote Hill, First Snow

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....It was a grey day with light snow falling....from a high vantage point overlooking county road 10 and Coyote Hill. 9.75 x 11 inches, acrylic on archival paper.