2021 Shoosty Landscapes

Landscapes 2020-2022 SHOOSTY

SHOOSTY LANDSCAPES 2020-2022 THE FINE ART OF STEPHEN SHOOSTER, AKA SHOOSTY

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The Primordial Sea

Shoosty Landscapes 2020-2021

THE PRIMORDIAL SEA

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THE WHITE BUFFALO BUTTERMILK FALLS STREAM

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VEEDAUWOO

VEEDAUWOO BOULDERS SKETCH

WATERFALL

THE BURNING

PAYNES PRAIRE VECTOR PAINTING

BUSH

THE BADLANDS

GARDEN OF THE GODS

AMERICAN DREAMER SKETCH CLOSE-UP AMERICAN DREAMER WATERCOLOR

IMAGINE

OLD MAN PENCIL SKETCH OLD MAN WATERCOLOR

THE SLEEPING GYPSY AMERICAN DREAMER

OLD MAN SOURCE

ROCK SPRINGS VECTOR PAINTING

OLD MAN

ROCK SPRINGS THE SHORE MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS 2 MOUNTAINS 3

VECTOR PAINTING SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT GOOSEBERRY FALLS LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN LADY OF THE MOUNTAIN NORTH UNIT

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

IDEAL POOL

BUTLER HOUSE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY HILLSBORO DRAWBRIDGE WITH FLOATING MANATEE

CATSKILLS PARK

CATSKILLS PARK WATERFALL 1 CATSKILLS PARK WATERFALL 2

VEEDAUWOO

SAND BEACH 1

SAND BEACH SKETCH 1 SAND BEACH SOURCE SAND BEACH 2 VECTOR ABOVE NIAGRA FALLS BELOW NIAGRA FALLS

TRAVATO VAN

TREK EBIKE WITH PANNIERS FILLED WITH ART SUPPLIES

WATERCOLOR PENCIL DRAWING

WATERCOLOR OF ROCK SPRINGS

GUACHE (OPAQUE PAINTING) TO FIND THE SHAPES

ROCK SPRINGS VECTOR PAINTING

BREAKING THINGS DOWN PIECE BY PIECE; THE JOURNEY, GETTING CLOSE, HAVING THE TIME AND WILL TO DRAW CONSTANTLY, MOVING FROM WATERCOLOR TO GUACHE, VECTOR PAINTING, AND OIL PAINTING, UNTIL I AM SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT. I COULDN’T BE MORE PLEASED. - SHOOSTY

Shoosty Landscapes 2020-2021

veryone loves vast vistas, ocean breezes, mountain passes, boulders, trees, big sky, and just being out with nature, especially if you are an artist with your materials ready to go. In September 2019, I retired from working with my family after 43 years. A few months later the Covid pandemic struck and the world went into a spiral. Once things settled down, I was ready to get outside and enjoy na- ture, so I bought my first small van. It has two beds, a full kitchen, and a bathroom. I got on the road with my wife, Diane. We drove from Florida to Colorado. There is nothing like touring in a van. It’s slow and the seats are up high. It’s perfect for touring. I also picked up a pair of eBikes which completes the journey in a way I never thought possible. Those bikes give you the freedom of the last mile or two, effortlessly. You can ride up mountains, or around a city after parking far enough away from traffic that you are still only minutes away from downtown. Plus, the eBike has panniers that can be filled with all sorts of materials, including; all my art supplies; a small chair; and canvas. In anticipation of the tour, I went to the art store and bought some Derwent Inktense Pencils. They are highly saturated watercolor pen- cils. Those pencils made all the difference in the works that follow. With them, I could experiment and have great control. A few years prior, I also started using an Ipad Pro with the Apple pencil. Back then, I started using a pixel-based app, called Artrage and focused on it until I understood almost every feature. It’s a great app. My 2016 was so prolific it forms two volumes. My 2018-2019 work is filled with finished pieces from this app. After a while, it left me feeling like I want- ed more. I kept downloading apps and finally stumbled upon Affinity Designer, a professional art-making tool par excellence. Its main focus is vector illustrations. I still use traditional tools as you will see, but when I take them into the digital realm the results are magical.

INTRODUCING THE ADVENT OF VECTOR PAINTING

IPENCIL

Drawing on the Ipad glass is not as satisfying as drawing on paper. The glass is slippery and the results seem tight. I prefer watercolor paper and pencils. Without realizing it I have combined the two to come up with a new way of painting I call, “Vector Painting.” Finding inspiration was easy, The United States is choke-filled with places to visit. I started drawing with the pencils, softly at first, and more boldly in time. The results were hard to see. The watercolor pencil drawings are muted without water. Back at the van, I would touch a soft brush to water and open up the drawings discovering the composition as the saturation increased. The colors were always surprising because of the special pen- cils I was using. They were bold and bright. The watercolor painting was fine but I was going for something more polished. It wasn’t what I was trying to achieve. I was trying to make something iconic. I covered the whole thing with guache. Guache is an opaque acrylic. It allowed me to tease out the shapes from the painting. Once separated, I took a photo with my iPhone and air-dropped it into the Ipad. This technology is a miracle. Using the Apple pencil I copied the shapes and then filled them with pure digital colors, teasing out the results you are about to see. They are breathtaking. Once I found a system I liked I also took photos and brought them di- rectly into the Ipad. Then I made hundreds of shapes following the lines on the photo. It’s the iPad that makes this possible I would never take this amount of time sitting in front of a desktop machine. The Ipad is very relaxing to work with. You will soon recognize these pieces by their photographic qualities. All in all, it was a good year.

IPAD PRO

ARTRAGE

AFFINITY DESIGNER

PHOTOS FROM 12 O’CLOCK: STEVE DEMO FO PAINTING WITH PASTELS FAMILY AND FRIENDS STEVE WITH MAYOR OF DEERFIELD SHOOSTY CLASS OF 2023 DOROTHY AND JAY STEVE WITH LECTURE STAND STEVE DEMONSTRATING VECTOR ART DORTHY WITH DIANE AND STEVE CENTER - HILLSBORO INLET DRAW- BRIDGE WITH FLYING MANATEE. 100% AUCTION FOR DEERFIELD BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Stephen Shooster, AKA Shoosty

BEAR LAKE SILHOUETTE

STOP ABOVE BEAR LAKE

BEAR LAKE

BEAR LAKE PENCIL

THIS WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF VEC- TOR PAINTING I EVER COMPLETED. HOW IT IT CAME TOGETHER WAS PURE HAPPENSTANCE. THE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR HAD MUTED COLORS. WHEN I BROUGHT IT INTO THE IPAD IT TOOK ON A WHOLE NEW FEELING. I WAS PLEASED. - SHOOSTY

BEAR LAKE WATERCOLOR

Veedauwoo STEPHEN SHOOSTER AKA SHOOSTY BUFORD, WYOMING

Veedauwoo Boulders Sketch

THE MODEL FOR THE BURNING BUSH

THERE ARE VERY FEW TREES THAT TURN RED IN COLO- RADO, SO I INVENT- ED ONE.

The Burning Bush VEDAUWOO, WYOMING

The Garden of the Gods is a natural landmark a the foot of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. It is known for towering red rocks that are a marvel to see. Named by Rufus Cable, a surveyor, when he first saw them he proclaimed, “a fit place for the Gods to assemble!” Walking around the place anyone would think each separate outcropping could be considered something titanic, a God. I found it odd in America, where most of the people believe in one God that this place achieved a name more akin to the Hindus. But, I guess it is all in jest. A harmless name for a stunning natural setting. When I was drawing I was looking for figures in the rocks. I found a few. See if you can if you can see the Indian Head, the Bear, and the Wolf. - Shoosty

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SOURCE 2

Garden of the Gods COLORADO

Imagine

There will be colors. The colors will disappear. In a dream that sleeps be- tween Heaven and Earth.

- Tohru Ishizuka

Imagine PAINTING: SHOOSTY VECTOR PAINTING 26” X 26”

VEDAUWOO, BUFORD, WYOMING. ITS NAME, ACCORDING TO SOME, IS A ROMANIZED VERSION OF THE ARAPAHO WORD “BITO’O’WU” MEANING “EARTH-BORN”.

Old Man Pencil Sketch

Old Man Watercolor

MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST, WYOMING

Old Man Source

Old Man Vector Painting

SNOWY RANGE, WYOMING, OLD MAN MOUNTAIN, ELEVATION 12,013 FT

Scotts Bluff National Monument GERING, NEBRASKA

SCOTTS BLUFF SKETCH

SCOTTS BLUFF WATER PENCIL

SCENE PHOTO 1

SCENE PHOTO 2

THEODORE ROOSEVELT NAT’L PARK NORTH DAKOTA

SCENE PHOTO 3

North Unit

30-40 MPH WINDS WHILE DRAWING

SCENE PHOTO

Gooseberry Falls LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

PLIEN AIRE CONCEPT SKETCH

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN VECTOR ART

CONCEPT SKETCH WATERCOLOR

Lookout Mountain GOLDEN, COLORADO

AFTER A WHILE I STARTED TO SEE A FIGURE IN THE CURVE OF THE MOUNTAIN. - SHOOSTY

Lady of the Mountain

Catskills Park

Catskills Park Waterfall 1

Catskills Park Waterfall 2

SILVER ON BLACK SKETCHES CATSKILLS, NEW YORK

Sand Beach Sketch 1

Sand Beach Source

ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE

Sand Beach 1

SAND BEACH 2 SKETCH

SAND BEACH SOURCE

ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE SAND BEACH SOURCE 2 Sand Beach 2 Vector

Above Niagra Falls

NIGRA, NEW YORK

Below Niagra Falls NIGRA, NEW YORK

WHITE BUFFALO

The surprising thing about seeing Ni- agra falls the first time was that my ide- alized mental version was again nothing like reality. I expected blue water. What I saw was white, and a dark brown river. While pondering it 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. There you get to walk on a rickety wooden platform in sandals and a raincoat while the falls spill through the platform.

I felt the power of the water rushing over my cold feet. Luckily, it was a warm day. I started drawing, studying the white water, the slippery-soaked boulders, and the mist. I thought about Japanese woodblocks and how they use stylization to represent water. With- out realizing it the mist started to look like horns and the water like dreadlock strands of hair. An epiphany formed in front of my eyes, I was drawing the white buffalo bigger than life! Niagra falls “is” the white buffalo!

The White Buffalo

BuWttaetremrfialkllFalls Stream ITHACA, NEW YORK JAPANESE INFLUENCE

BUTTERMILK FALLS STATE PARK IS A 811-ACRE STATE PARK LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF ITHACA, NEW YORK

SOURCE

WATERCOLOR PAINTING

ALACHUA COUNTY FLORIDA

Paynes Praire Vector Painting

The Badlands BELFIELD, NORTH DAKOTA

American Dreamer Sketch Close-Up

PENCIL SKETCH

American Dreamer Watercolor

The Sleeping Gypsy 1897 OIL PAINTING BY FRENCH NAÏVE ARTIST HENRI ROUSSEAU

American Dreamer

ROCK SPRINGS WATERCOLOR

SHOOSTY DRAWING ROCK SPRINGS

Rock Springs

Rock Springs Vector Painting ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

ROCK SPRINGS GUACHE

The Shore

Dedicated to The Deerfield Beach Historical Society WHERE THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST

I CREATE LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS IN A WAY TO SHAPE THE PERSPECTIVE I WANT TO SEE. THE DEERFILED BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY SHAPES THE FUTURE WITH LOVE AND HOPE.

- SHOOSTY 2022

Mountains

Mountains 2

Mountains 3

Rocky Mountains

Ideal Pool

Butler House 100 Year Anniversary

Hillsboro Drawbridge with Floating Manatee

A Thematic Study of the Art of Stephen Shooster aka Shoosty A remarkable fact about the art of Shoosty is the meticulous work he did in documenting every single piece of art he has ever made from childhood drawings to his current work. It comprises over ten volumes of manuscripts. Seeing the work of an artist unfold over time gives the viewer and art historian a way of seeing how an artist develops, the various stages they go through and how the tools that surround artists especially in the 21st century are evolving as quickly as the person.

Titles included: 2021 Shoosty Bugs

2022 The Art of Music by Shoosty 2022 Shoosty Landscapes 2019-2022 Shoosty Bonsai Titles in progress: Shoosty Japanese Influences Shoosty North West American Indian Influences Shoosty Sculptuture Shoosty Animals Shoosty Fossils Shoosty Architecture Shoosty catalogue raisonné Shoosty 1958-2009 Shoosty 2010-2015 Shoosty 2016 Shoosty 2017 Shoosty 2018 Shoosty 2019 Shoosty 2020 Shoosty 2021 Shoosty 2022

Veedauwoo BUFORD, WYOMING SHOOSTY 2020

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