House in Light (Sold)

  .....winter wheat looking healthy and fresh in the dampness of November.....the distant white house lit by afternoon sunlight. Acrylic collage painting on gessoed thin birch panel 7.5 x 12 inches. I need to start making these a little earlier in the afternoon because the light fades so quickly now. The ideal time to start making the work would be late morning or very early afternoon.

 

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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.

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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Rainy Saturday

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....the perfect stillness of a rainy Saturday morning. I opened the car windows to get a proper view without the windows steaming up. 7.5 x 9.75 inches, acrylic on archival print paper.

Late Day, Lost Dog Hill

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...the darker, greyer, wetter days of late fall. It was interesting achieving the mood here; it came close to matching what I saw, and was based on the relationship of about 5 colours. 11 x 15 acrylic and pencil on unprimed printing paper.

Return

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Into late October....bittersweet times, as the landscape seems to shift dramatically....strong yellows in the forest beyond the bean field.

Power Line Road #2

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The second of two paintings make from my hike on Power Line Road. Shown here is the access from the county road. Then you wander over high ridges, bush, fields....all on a narrow path next to the power lines. Acrylic on unprimed Arches, 6.75 x 9.75 inches.

Early August, Back Acres.

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Yesterday while it was super hot, I wandered around in the the back acres. It's very dry again and everything was crunching underfoot. Some lovely clouds floating by....but nothing suggesting rain.....I dramatized what I saw here.

Start of June

There were a few weeks of little or no rain but we've had plenty the last few days. Bit of rain worry in these recent ones. The pink bean field was just starting and should do well now. I was looking down from a far distance onto the yellow field. With all the rain it will be very green in the next few days. There's a tiny house in the yellow field, at the tree line, center.
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Edge

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

Into Garden Hill, March 15

A lovely place in any season. Home is not far from here.....a very mysterious and welcoming opening at the top of the hill.

Night Maple

A row of 3 Maples along the driveway, lit by the house lights.

Ravine, February 14th/2010, 2:40 p.m.

I walked to the very back of a favourite field and around the rim that led down into this gully....the perspective and views change radically in this hilled country, over very short distances. The land is full of surprises....a bit further up, one could see for miles over various elevations going northward.

Acrylic on gessoed paper, listed on Etsy.

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.

Snow Hills

9" x 7" acrylic on gessoed, acid-free paper, listed on Etsy.

A quiet, snowbound time. I like how the work changes almost without my intention.....seems to have something to do with these being a form of daily ritual. If the work goes this way or that, it's really not such a large issue....much more important that the work simply gets done and there remains a document of the time here, and what I noticed.

I see my favourite savage brush is getting rather decrepit looking....it's a stiff brush that I like to torture the paint with...suitable for certain large areas like the sky.

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Property Line

7.25" x 6.5" acrylic collage painting on pine panel. I was very pleased to discover this little size...there is a whole series of works on panels this size and I'll make many works on paper this size also. I need to frame these up soon, but a very nice black tom cat has moved into my basement and I don't want to freak him out with miter saw noise before he feels perfectly at home. The tom that lives upstairs still wants to murder him so I don't want them together.

In the continuing saga of little pleasures, I was happy to find a use for the orange collage paper on the bottom. Perfect for this November scene. Orange is an uncomfortable colour for me and I don't do much with it. One of the advantages of collage is that you are very likely to find surprises in colour outside your comfort zone....it's very easy to move colours in and out to assess effect.

To Collage....or Not

The 2nd image is 8" x 10" acrylic collage painting on cradled birch panel, and the first is a straight acrylic painting on smaller pine panel. The decisions work something like this. I know when I will paint....I know if it will be tomorrow or not for example. To some degree it depends on how busy I am with other things, but I know the next painting will be within a day or so. I don't know what will be painted. I might stop the car on a back road on the way to school and make a 30 second sketch from a motif I see, or I might try to make an encapsulation of the overall mood of the whole day, but using a specific motif to accomplish this. Just as I start the work session...setting up the lights and the materials....I decide there and then how the piece will be made. I know then but not before, if it should be a straight painting or a collage painting...and I usually feel that with great certainty. The approach of the collage paintings is way different...making them feels different....the pace of making is different. I also usually know how long it will take. I might know before hand that the work should be done in an hour...or perhaps three, if I expect to meander around.

These 2 will also go to Nahcotta Gallery