Late May Collage Paintings

Fishing Rod (Sold)
...a hot, still, late May evening on Rice Lake. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.5 x 10 inches.

Evening, Chickabiddy Hill (Sold)
....the welcome coolness that comes at the end of hot May day. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper, 11 x 14 inches, image size 10 x 11 inches.

 

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...there is a late May heatwave on at the moment. It's much hotter than it normally is at this time of year. Hopefully I'll have more energy to make a painting later this evening....

 

 

Island Home

Island Home
.......a descent to Rice Lake......looking down onto an island home on a warm Saturday morning in May. Acrylic collage painting on paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 10 x 10 inches.

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Eastern Fields

Eastern Fields
 .....a high view of May fields awaiting planting.......Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 9 x 10.25 inches.

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Over Wendy's Hill

Over Wendy's Hill (Sold)
 ...beautiful, cool May afternoons. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.5 x 9.75 inches.

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May Rain

May Rain
........a very wet Saturday morning. It's a very pleasant thing, to stop, and look at the rain. Acrylic on unprimed Whatman paper 10 x 13.5 inches, image size 9 x 12 inches.

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Pass By

Acrylic collage on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.5 x 10.75 inches.....on an early May morning....beautiful, fresh, and cold.

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Artist at Work.....

May Blue

 ...gorgeous days of early May....evening cloud dalliance over the winter wheat field. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 10 x 11 inches.

 

This work started with the top sheet of blue, which had a hole in it due to a tearing of the paper.....you can see that tear just to the left of the cloud at center....it was very important to have that tear there....it pleased me to no end.

 

This one was also recorded in video and it's on YouTube....but unfortunately, the background music was muted. Type Harry Stooshinoff into YouTube search for all my process videos.

 

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2 paintings from the end of April

 

This is always such a bittersweet time. Spring is very special and the early stage especially seems to hold so much promise. The cool days that reveal the first bits of growth are to be savoured....full heat arrives quickly enough.

 

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There is video footage documenting the last stages of each of these paintings on YouTube.   https://youtu.be/iVZTwFvBEs4    Or...just type in Harry Stooshinoff into the YouTube search bar and you'll see a large selection.

May 1968, On Crocus Hill

 

May1968, On Crocus Hill 
Painted yesterday but thinking back to 1968....a very pretty day in May...long, long ago. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper, 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.75 x 11 inches.

Here is the video showing the last painting stage of this work:

https://youtu.be/cf1aTmsl93o

 

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Interview with Harry Stooshinoff, In the Artist Studio

Interview with Harry Stooshinoff, In the Artist Studio

Thank you to Kelley Sandford and Kim Van Der Hoek for their great work on this site and this interview! Please click on the link above.

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April Morning

It's unusual for me to do morning pictures, but it was very pleasant being out on the roads at that hour. Rainy, overcast and cool....past greening pastures and into the forest, noisy with birdsong.  The video recording the last stage of this piece is in the link below. This piece is (Sold).

https://youtu.be/HLSzup7uxLI

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At a Distance

At a Distance
......in the forest, looking toward the distant meadow. Sometimes looking 'far' brings to mind 'long ago', in a bittersweet way. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.75 x 10.25 inches.

 

 

The video documenting the last stage of making this work is here    https://youtu.be/l9jnQRfBQQs   or type in Harry Stooshinoff into the YouTube search bar to find all my process videos.

 

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First Greening

https://youtu.be/lb7BOG3GZHQ
......click on this link to see a video of  the final part of the painting.....

 

......cool, gentle, spring days are greening up the fields of winter wheat..... (Sold)

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Hidden

acrylic collage on heavy archival paper, 11 x 15 inches, signed lightly in pencil. I feel a need for these kinds of compositions, made in the midst of the landscape collage, and pure landscape paintings. The mind whirls in all kinds of ways......having little to do with a singular vision of things. Yet this is as much about what my day has been, as the other paintings are. These are about what was seen, and felt, about events that happen over time, in a day or longer. They are about conclusions reached, musing on the mystery of my own responses. Design has its dictates here too....but I feel there is much room for invention in this form. It is so important to feel unbound.....and yet the finished piece always seems to provide a sense of security too.
(Sold)

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From Hermit Lane

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From Hermit's Lane
....from a hidden lane.....on a warm, April mid afternoon....a vista looking east. Acrylic and pencil on unprimed Whatman paper 10 x 13.75 inches, image size 8.5 x 12 inches.

April Breeze

April Breeze (Sold)
...April is moody and erratic, but I love her anyway. Acrylic collage painting on heavy archival paper, 11 x 15 inches, image size 9.25 x 11 inches.

 

In these collages I prefer to use old papers. I saved some papers from my teaching years. I'd often ask my students to prepare idea lists and preparatory drawings at the start of projects. These idea pages would be stapled together and kept on shelves in the studio for their reference the next class. Few students ever claimed these prep things at the end of the year, and in June there would be piles of things to throw out. When I started making these collages I'd sometimes save the used 8.5 x 11 inch papers in stacks. I still have a bit of this left. I'm often very charmed by the things I see on these pages.....little bits of history that are both insignificant and endearing when put into a different context. Our days are fleeting...and it's sweet if some little hint of our time here can survive. In this piece, at extreme left by the horizon, you see a star/asterisk entered in ballpoint pen. That was where a Grade 9 student wrote her name, and a punctuating symbol afterward. I don't know why that charms me....but it does to no end. Little hints that we were here....left behind...but largely invisible....

You'd be surprised how the stacks of old paper mount up after years of teaching....piles of old photocopied project sheets, assignment sheets....I left a lot of that behind and have used up much of what I've saved for collage papers....

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Thinking Place

 

...A place I walk to every day, to sort through things, or just to say hello.

 

...if you know how to do it, you won't want to do it. This idea shows up almost every painting. This sky was repainted a few times, and you never know what you're going to get. You get so watchful to every little nuance, and somehow you find your way to a bit of fascination worth keeping. It's always a bit scary......

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....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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