The 2021 Shoosty Catalog Raisonne - The complete catalog of the art of Stephen Shooster for the year 2021.
Catalogue Raisonné 2021 SHOOSTY
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THE WHITE BUFFALO NIGRA FALLS, NEW YORK ARTIST’S SKETCH
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PEACOCKS - SEEK BEAUTY STUDY
THE MAMMOTH HUNTER THE MAMMOTH HUNTER AMERICAN DREAMER INDIGENOUS AMERICANS
BUTTERMILK FALLS VEEDAUWOO BOULDERS
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IMAGINE OLD MAN
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TATANKA JAM The Circus 56 56 ELEPHANT WITH SIGN 57 LION IN THE WIND 58 LIONS 60 CIRCUS SHOWMAN 62 Color Theory 64 64 COLOR THEORY 65
SCOTT’S BLUFF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT NAT’L PARK
SYLVAN LAKE
GOOSEBERRY FALLS CATSKILLS PARK SAND BEACH 1 SAND BEACH 2 WHITE BUFFALO PAYNES PRAIRE ERIE CANAL RAHBO SAAB CLARENCE SPADY
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
TRIBUTES TO PABLO ATCHUGARRY
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FLAG DAY
A.J.JUMP NATE ZAUR
FARMER IN A FIELD
KILLER WHALE PLAYING SAX
CLARENCE SPADEY BAND SOUL MESSAGE BAND COSMIC TRANSITIONS 2 COSMIC TRANSITIONS 1 COSMIC TRANSITIONS SLAVIC SOUL PARTY A BLUES TAPESTRY WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB SKETCH 2
KILLER WHALE DECIDES TO BE A ROCKSTAR
FANCY BUGS
ROACH
SKATEBOARDS DRAGONFLY FIGURE
WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB THE KIDS BAND 1
JORGE GARICA DEDICATED TO YOU 3 JESUS PASSING JORGE INSPIRATION ON WHITE
JESUS OF MUSIC CLOSE-UP FLOWER POT HEAD CRUSADER DRUMMER SAX UMBILICLE CHORD
CRAZY FINGERS
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WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB THE ERIC JACOBSON QUINTET PLAYING THE MUSIC OF HORACE SILVER. SOPHISTICATED HIPPY, CHICAGO 2021
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2021 ARTIST STATEMENT In 2021 I was retired for almost two years. Most of that time was during the pandemic. My oldest son, Jason, and his fiancee drove my van to California and then Colorado. I met them there and she flew home. We took the van to North Dakota through Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Our first stop was Laramie. where we sleep in front of 10-12 train tracks. It was glorius to hear thosegiant engines rolling down the track during all hours of the day and night. Then we went to Veedauwoo. I have bene there a few times. I love this location for its accesibility and scale. Its not too big and has all of the elements I look for when drawing, color, scale, mythology, and dynamic elements. I made a vector painting and wiht the help of a friend of mine on facebook from Japan he added a poem to the piece, It is called Imagine. Nebraska we saw Scott’s Bluff and what seemed to be 1,000 miles of grasslands. Not a single tree in sight. South Dakotah was more of the same except Scot’s Bluff. We also stumbled upon a Mammoth arche- ological dig. They turned it into a museum by putting a roof over it and were continuing to extract the Mammoths. It was exciting to watch so we made drawings. Just by luck, I got a great image of a guy using a tiny tool to extract the giants. After we drove to the Franklin Roosevelt National Park where we saw the badlands. An area where it would be impossible for covered wag- ons to pass. Nearby we saw the Painted Rocks. An area where the rock formations of horizontal colors change depending n the light. I was inspired to make a major piece of art there I called, American Dreamer. It represents many years of practice and a touch of luck. Somehow, we touched upon the idea of the white buffalo while studying the indigenous people. The White Buffalo relates to the Locota nation creation story. That’s what inspired this piece combined with a famous painting I have seen called The Dreamer, by Henri Rousseau. When we got to Chicago we got to see live music three nights in a row. It was fantastic! Three different styles. I made lots of drawings a few of them I took to final posters. When I got back I was asked to do the album cover for Jorge Garcia. I loved the challenge and was happy to do something for Jorge. What I told him I needed was to listen to the music. I needed to be with the band and hear it. He was playing at a local club and I got my chance. He told me that he is calling the album dedicated to you, meaning Jesus. I used that as my drawing queue and made a modern Jesus opening Jorge’s mind and inspiring him to make music. Then I drew his band members in various states. The final piece is exciting and innovative.
Back on the trip we went all the way to New York City for the Fourth of July and met up with our family. It was a special time together at an AirBNB in Brooklynn. It was here that we switched again and Jason left as Carly stepped on. I took her to Arcadia National Park in Maine. We did a lot of biking and drawing. I recall sitting on a boulder at Sand Beach. It is strewn with boulders, a fitting border for the United States. It was there I made two thoughtful drawings using watercolor pencils. I’m very pleased with them. About a week later Carly was dropped in Rhode Island and I went back to Niagra Falls. I like to imagine what things look like before I see them. What color do you think the falls are? most people would say blue. What color do you think the river is before dropping into the falls? Most people would again say blue. the river is brown or Black and the falls are white. I studied them and did some drawing. The amount of water pouring over those falls is profound. But. for the sake of my drawing it was the mist that captured my imagination. I have been studying Japanese art for a while and they like to style objects. I did the same with the mist. then I took an elevator to the bottom of the falls and did some more drawing. It was there that the mist took shape and I saw what I thought was an epiphany, I saw the head of a White Buffalo. I saw that the falls them - selves are the white buffalo and the water the lifegiving force that the Indians spoke about in their creation story. It was a pleasing idea that I will continue to refine. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my bug drawings. Like a dancer warms up before dancing I like to do small projects that push my skills forward. I centered my attention on bugs many years ago for these quick sketches. You will see the collection has grown and continue to grow. Each one tells its own little story.
I hope you enjoy these pages.
Stephen Shooster aka Shoosty
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BUTTERMILK FALLS STATE PARK 811-ACRE STATE PARK SOUTHWEST OF ITHACA, NEW YORK
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VEEDAUWOO BOULDERS AQUABOARD AND INKTENSE PENCILS STEPHEN SHOOSTER AKA SHOOSTY AT VEEDAUWOO (EARTH-BORN), WYOMING
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Imagine
There will be colors.
The colors will disap- pear.
In a dream that sleeps between Heaven and Earth.
Painting: Shoosty Poem Tohru Ishizuka
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IMAGINE
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SNOWY RANGE, 12,013 FT. ELEVATION MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST SOUTHEAST WYOMING
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OLD MAN
WATERCOLOR AND METALIC INKS ON 300 LBS COLD PRESSED WATERCOLOR PAPER SCOTT’S BLUFF
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30-40 MPH WIND WHILE DRAWING
NORTH UNIT
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT NAT’L PARK
CUSTER NATIONAL PARK
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SYLVAN LAKE
GOOSEBERRY FALLS JUNE 18TH, 2021 GOOSEBERRY STATE PARK, MINNESOTA
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CATSKILLS PARK
SAND BEACH 1 ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE
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SAND BEACH 2 ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE
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THE SURPRISING THING ABOUT SEE - ING NIAGRA FALLS THE FIRST TIME WAS THAT MY IDEALIZED MENTAL VER - SION WAS AGAIN NOTHING LIKE REAL - ITY. I EXPECTED BLUE WATER. WHAT I SAW WAS WHITE WATER AND A DARK BROWN RIVER. WHAT CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION IS VERY HARD TO DRAW; THE MIST. THE MIST WAS EVERYWHERE IN LARGE MASSES ABOVE AND BELOW THE FALLS. I TOOK AN ELEVATOR RIDE 18 FLOORS DOWN THROUGH THE ROCK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FALLS. THERE YOU GET TO WALK ON A RICKETY WOODEN PLATFORM IN SANDALS AND A RAINCOAT WHILE GETTING WET FROM THE FALLS. A SMALL SECTION OF THE PLATFORM IS DIRECTLY IN THE PATH OF THE WATERFALL. I STOOD THERE FEEL - ING THE POWER OF THE WATER RUSH -
ING OVER MY COLD FEET. LUCKILY IT WAS A WARM DAY. I STARTED DRAW - ING, STUDYING THE WHITE WATER, THE SLIPPERY-SOAKED BOULDERS, AND THE MIST. WHILE DRAWING I THOUGHT ABOUT JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS AND HOW THEY USE STYLIZATION TO REP - RESENT WATER. WITHOUT REALIZING IT THE MIST STARTED TO LOOK LIKE HORNS, AND THE FALLS LOOKS LIKE DREADLOCKS. AN EPIPHANY FORMED IN FRONT OF MY EYES, I WAS DRAW - ING THE WHITE BUFFALO BIGGER THAN LIFE! NIAGRA FALLS “IS” THE WHITE BUFFALO. PERHAPS THE CREATION STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN USING THE WHITE BUFFALO AS THE GIVER OF LIFE IS AN ALLEGORY FOR NIGRA FALLS.
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WHITE BUFFALO NIAGRA FALLS, NEW YORK
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JUST SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE, FLORI - DA, IS A WATER SOAKED AREA CALLED PAYNE’S PRAIRE. IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE SON OF A SEMINOLE INDIAN. VECTOR ART
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PAYNES PRAIRE
BASED ON SOLICE V RARITAN, 2013 OIL ON LINEN PENNSYLVANIA IMPRESSIONISM PAINTING BY BARBARA POSTEL (1938-2018) TRIBUTE TO BARBARA POSTEL VECTOR ART
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ERIE CANAL
CLARENCE SPADY
A.J.JUMP
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RAHBO SAAB
NATE ZAUR
T-SHIRT SAYING: CAMPING NATURES WAY OF
FEEDING MOSQUITOES IRON RIVER, MICHIGAN CLARENCE SPADEY BAND
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THE GREEM MILL BAR IN CHICAGO IS A CASH ONLY BAR THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE TIMES OFHTE GANG - STERS. IT EVEN HAD A BACKDOOR ESCAPE JUST IN CASE THEY NEEDED IT. WE SAW THE SOUL MESSAGE BAND THERE. THE KEYBOARD PLAYER IS BLIND. IT WAS THE GUITAR PLAYERS BIRTHDAY.
THE GREEN MILL, CHICAGO SOUL MESSAGE BAND
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SOUL MESSAGE BAND
AT THE JAZZ SHOWCASE IN CHI - CAGO, WE SAW ISAIAH COLLIER & THE CHOOSEN FEW. THIS IS A PROGRESSIVE JAZZ BAND THAT PLAYS EXTREMELY FAST MUSIC. FEW PLAYERS WOULD EVEN WANT TO KEEP UP WITH THIS PACE.
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COSMIC TRANSITIONS 2
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COSMIC TRANSITIONS 1
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COSMIC TRANSITIONS
IN THE BACK OF A SMALL BAR CALLED BARBES RECORDS IN CHICAGO WE SAW THE SLAVIC SOUL PARTY BAND PERFORM. THE SPACE WAS WA YTOO SMALL AND CROWDED WITH STANDING ROOM ONLY. I GOT THESE QUICK SKETCHES THAT TURNED INTO FACI - NATING POSTERS.
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SLAVIC SOUL PARTY
WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB SKETCH 2 PEN AND INK 12” X 12”
ERIC JACOBSON QUINTET IS FROM MILWAUKEE, WISCON - SIN, WHERE ONE OF MY FAVORITE JAZZ CLUBS IS, THE JAZZ ESTATE. ERIC TEACHES NEARBY THAT CLUB AND PLAYS THERE OFTEN. I MAY HAVE MET HIM OR EVEN MADE A DRAWING OF HIM IN THE PAST. HIS MUSIC IS SOLID. THE SET WAS BASED ON HORACE SILVER.
WHEN I CAN’T FEEL OUT THE LOCATION AND THE BAND TO DO A DRAWING, ESPECIALLY SINCE I WAS BLOCKED BY SOMEONE IN THE CROWD I JUST LET THE MUSIC PAINT A TAPES - TRY IN MY MIND. HERE IS WHAT COMES OUT.
PEN AND INK 12” X 12”
A BLUES TAPESTRY BLUES COUNTRY, CHICAGO
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PEN AND INK 12” X 12”
WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB THE ERIC JACOBSON QUINTET PLAYING THE MUSIC OF HORACE SILVER. SOPHISTICATED HIPPY, CHICAGO 2021 WINTER’S JAZZ CLUB
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THE KIDS BAND
FORT LAUDERDALE CULTURE ROOM
THE KIDS BAND
HANDS DOWN, I LOVE THIS BAND! THE BAND WRITES AND PERFORMS THEIR OWN MUSIC.
FORT LAUDERDALE CULTURE ROOM
THE KIDS BAND 1 JOSH DIAZ AND THE KIDS BAND
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JESUS PASSING JORGE GARCIA INSPIRATION JORGE GARCIA WAS INSPIRED BY JESUS FOR HIS LATEST AL - BUM, DEDICATED TO YOU. HERE HE IS WITH HIS SKULL OPENED ACCEPTING THE INSPIRATION. THIS PIECE WAS COMPLETED FROM A LIVE DRAWING DURING ONE OF HIS MUSIC SESSIONS.
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JESUS OF MUSIC CLOSE-UP
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JORGE GARICA - DEDICATED TO YOU
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FLOWER POT HEAD
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CRUSADER DRUMMER
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SAX UMBILICLE CHORD
CRAZY FINGERS A GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE BAND
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CRAZY FINGERS KEYS
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Architecture
A VECTOR PAINTING OF THE CHICAGO WATERFRONT
A VECTOR PAINTING OF A MUCH EAR - LIER PIECE CREATED IN 1985
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CHICAGO WATERFRONT
CONCEPTUAL CITY
ROBERT SWAIN (B. 1940) UN- TITLED (STUDY FOR COLOR SERIES) 1975 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
SHOOSTY VISITED THE PLAINS ART MUSUEM IN FAR - GO NORTH DAKOTAH WHERE HE STUMBLED UPON TWO PIECES OF ART. AS AN EXER - CISE HE CONNECTED THEM BOTH INTO SOMETHING NEW. LINDA PLOTKIN (AMERICAN B. 1938) “MORNING,” MEZ- ZOTINT, AQUATINT, ENGRAV - ING ON PAPER.
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MORNING PLUS
TOYING WITH ARCHITECTUAL INTERIORS AND STRONG ART DECO INFLUENCE THE ARTIST CREATED PAINTINGS OF BOTH OF HIS DAUGHTERS AND A HORSE HE MET AT A OVERNIGHT CAMPING PARK.
BUILDING DESIGN BY IM PEI BUILDING LOBBY CONCEPT
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IN VINO VERITAS IN WINE TRUTH CARLY
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CARSON
ELLIOT
ERTÉ A RUSSIAN-FRENCH ARTIST FAMOUS FOR OPERA SETS INSPIRED SHOOSTY TO MAKE AN INTEGRATED COPY OF ERTE’S ORIGINAL WORK. ON THE RIGHT, THE OR - ANGE CLAD FIGURE IS BY ERTE. ON THE LEFT IS THE MATCHING FIGURE BY SHOOSTY.
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ERTE AND SHOOSTY
SEEK BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING EVERYTHING IN BEAUTY SEEK ART NOUVEAU REPRODUCTION WITH ADVANCED VECTOR TECHNOLOGY.
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PEACOCKS - SEEK BEAUTY STUDY
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THE MAMMOTH HUNTER
HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTAH HAS A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE AR - CHEOLOGICAL DISCOVER OF A HERD OF MAMMOTHS THAT DIED HERE. THEY PUT A ROOF OVER THE SITE AND MADE IT INTO A WORKING ARCHE - OLOGICAL CENTER AND MUSEUM.
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THE MAMMOTH HUNTER
AMERICAN DREAMER CONCEPT
AMERICAN DREAMER SKETCH
THE SLEEPING GYPSY BY HENRI ROUSSEU
VISITOR CENTER, BADLANDS, BEL - FIELD, NORTH DAKOTA
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COW SKULL
PAINTED CANYON
CREATE JUST OUTSIDE OF THE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK AT THE PAINTED CANYON OVER - LOOK, I WAS INSPIRED TO MAKE A MA - JOR PIECE OF ART CALLED, AMERICAN DREAMER. THIS PIECE REPRESENTS MANY YEARS OF PRACTICE AND A TOUCH OF LUCK. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT INTO A LARGE PAINTING.
EARLIER I WAS LEARNING ABOUT THE WHITE BUFFALO AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE THE LOCOTA NATION CRE - ATION STORY. THIS PIECE WAS INSPIRED BY THE DREAMER, BY HENRI ROUSSEAU, AND THE WHITE BUFFALO.
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AMERICAN DREAMER
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INDIAN WAR HAMMER
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INDIGENOUS AMERICAN
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INDIGENOUS AMERICANS
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TATANKA JAM
The Circus
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LION IN THE WIND
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ELEPHANT WITH SIGN
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LIONS
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CIRCUS SHOWMAN
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THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Color Theory
COLOR THEORY
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TRIBUTES TO PABLO ATCHUGARRY
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IN 1964 I WAS 6 YEARS OLD AND MADE THESE TWO DRAWINGS USING CRAYONS. I AM NOW 64 YEARS OLD. PICASSO SAID SOMETHING LIKE, “UNLEARN EVERYTHING AND BE LIKE A CHILD.” HERE I TOOK MY CRAYON DRAW - INGS AND CONVERTED THEM TO VECTOR.
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FLAG DAY
THE PURPOSE OF ART IS WASHING THE DUST OF DAILY LIFE OFF OUR SOULS.” THE CHIEF ENEMY OF CREATIVITY IS ‘GOOD’ SENSE.” IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BECOME YOUNG.” - PABLO PICASSO YOU HAVE TO LET YOURSELF GO TO BE CREATIVE. CHILDREN POSSESS THIS QUAL - ITY BUT THEN SEEM TO LOSE IT AS THEY ARE TOLD, “IT’S NOT THE DONE THING”. PABLO PICASSO SUMMED IT UP WELL; “EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST. THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO REMAIN AN ARTIST ONCE HE GROWS UP.” - PABLO PICASSO
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FARMER IN A FIELD
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KILLER WHALE PLAYING SAX
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KILLER WHALE DECIDES TO BE A ROCKSTAR
SHOOSTY BUGS HAVE BECOME A MAJOR PROJECT WITH ITS OWN BOOK. USE THE QR CODE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
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SHOOSTY BUGS
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ROACH SKATEBOARDS
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DRAGONFLY FIGURE
REPRODUCTIONS OF JAPANEESE ART VECTOR ART
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