Shoosty Landscapes by Stephen Shooster

SHOOSTY Landscapes 2020-2022

Imagine

SHOOSTY LANDSCAPES 2020-2022 THE FINE ART OF STEPHEN SHOOSTER, AKA SHOOSTY SHOOSTER PUBLISHING COPYRIGHT SHOOSTER PUBLISHING, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 441 SOUTH STATE ROAD 7 MARGATE, FLORIDA 33068 954-537-1200

The Primordial Sea

Shoosty Landscapes 2020-2021

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IMAGINE THE PRIMORDIAL SEA BEAR LAKE VEEDAUWOO VEEDAUWOO BOULDERS SKETCH THE BURNING BUSH GARDEN OF THE GODS IMAGINE OLD MAN PENCIL SKETCH OLD MAN VECTOR PAINTING OLD MAN SOURCE OLD MAN WATERCOLOR SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT NORTH UNIT GOOSEBERRY FALLS SOURCE GOOSEBERRY FALLS LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN LADY OF THE MOUNTAIN CATSKILLS PARK CATSKILLS PARK WATERFALL 1 CATSKILLS PARK WATERFALL 2 SAND BEACH SKETCH 1

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SAND BEACH SOURCE SAND BEACH 1 SAND BEACH 2 SKETCH SAND BEACH SOURCE SAND BEACH 2 VECTOR ABOVE NIAGRA FALLS BELOW NIAGRA FALLS THE WHITE BUFFALO BUTTERMILK FALLS STREAM WATERFALL PAYNES PRAIRE VECTOR PAINTING THE BADLANDS AMERICAN DREAMER DRAWING AMERICAN DREAMER WATERCOLOR PENCIL AMERICAN DREAMER WATERCOLOR THE SLEEPING GYPSY AMERICAN DREAMER ROCK SPRINGS VECTOR PAINTING ROCK SPRINGS THE SEA II ROCKY MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS VEEDAUWOO

TRAVATO VAN

WATERCOLOR OF ROCK SPRINGS

TREK EBIKE WITH PANNIERS FILLED WITH ART SUPPLIES

GUACHE (OPAQUE PAINTING) TO FIND THE SHAPES

BREAKING THINGS DOWN PIECE BY PIECE; THE JOURNEY, GETTING CLOSE, HAVING THE TIME AND WILL TO DRAW CONSTANTLY, MOVING FROM WATERCOLOR TO GUACHE AND FINALLY VECTOR PAINTING, UNITL I AM SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT. I COULDN’T BE MORE PLEASED WITH THE RESULT. 4

ROCK SPRINGS VECTOR PAINTING

IPENCIL

Shoosty Landscapes 2020-2021

veryone loves vast vistas, but when I take them into the digital ocean breezes, mountain passrealm the results are magical. INTRODUCING THE es, boulders, trees, big sky, and Drawing on the Ipad glass is not as ADVENT OF just being out with nature, satisfying as drawing on paper. The VECTOR PAINTING especially if you are an artist glass is slippery and the results seem with your materials ready to go. tight. I prefer watercolor paper and In September 2019, I retired from pencils. Without realizing it I have working with my family after 43 years. A few months combined the two to come up with a new way of later the Covid pandemic struck and the world went painting I call, “Vector Painting.” into a spiral. Once things settled down, I was ready Finding inspiration was easy, The United States is to get outside and enjoy nature, so I bought my first chocked and filled with places to visit and the eBike small van. It has two beds, a full kitchen, and a bath- got me up close. As I sat to draw, softly at first, and room. I got on the road with my wife, Diane. We more boldly in time, the project unfolded. The redrove from Florida to Colorado. There is nothing sults were hard to see. The watercolor pencil drawlike touring in a van. It’s slow and the seats are up ings are muted without water. high, so it’s perfect for touring. I also picked up a Back at the van, I would touch my brush to water pair of eBikes which completes the journey in a way and open up the drawings discovering the composiI never thought possible. Those bikes give you the tion from a different perspective. The colors were alfreedom of the last mile or two, effortlessly. You can ways surprising because of the special pencils I was ride up mountains, or around a city after parking using. They were bold and bright. far enough away from traffic that you are still only As much as I like watercolors, I was going for someminutes away from downtown. Plus, the eBike has thing more polished. So, once the painting was done panniers that can be filled with all sorts of materi- I felt it still wasn’t what I was looking for and I went als, including; all my art supplies; a small chair; and back and covered the whole thing with guache. canvas. Guache is an acrylic with an opaque finish. It alIn anticipation of the tour, I went to the art store to lowed me to tease out the shapes from the painting. decide what tools to bring and I centered my atten- Once I separated the shapes, I took a simple photo tion on Derwent Inktense Pencils. These are highly with my iPhone and Air-dropped it into the Ipad. saturated watercolor pencils. It is those pencils that I love how this technology is connected. Using the made all the difference in the works that follow. With Ipencil I copied the shapes and then filled them with them, I could experiment and have great control. pure digital colors, teasing out the results you are A few years prior, I also started using an Ipad Pro about to see. They are breathtaking. with an Ipencil. Back then I started by using a pix- Once I found my style, I also took photos and el-based app, called Artrage and focused on it until brought them directly into the Ipad. Since the Ipad I understood almost every feature. It’s a great app. is so easy to relax with I would start to make hunmy 2018-2019 work is filled with finished pieces dreds of shapes based directly on the photo. You will from this app. But, after a while, it left me feeling like recognize these pieces by their photographic qualiI wanted more. I kept downloading apps and finally ties. stumbled upon Affinity Designer. This is a profes- These pages include the highlights with some extras sional art-making tool par excellence. Its main focus to help you understand the process. is vectors. I still use traditional tools as you will see,

Stephen Shooster, AKA Shoosty

IPAD PRO

ARTRAGE

AFFINITY DESIGNER

DERWENT INKTENSE PENCILS

BEAR LAKE SILHOUETTE

STOP ABOVE BEAR LAKE

BEAR LAKE

BEAR LAKE PENCIL THIS WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF VECTOR 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

GARDEN CITY, UTAH 6

Bear Lake

BEAR LAKE WATERCOLOR

Veedauwoo

STEPHEN SHOOSTER AKA SHOOSTY BUFORD, WYOMING

Aquaboard and Inktense Pencils

Veedauwoo Boulders Sketch

THE MODEL FOR THE BURNING BUSH

The Burning Bush 10 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.

SOURCE 1

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

SOURCE 2

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Garden of the Gods

Imagine There will be colors. The colors will disappear. In a dream that sleeps between 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

Old Man Source MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST, WYOMING 16

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 WATERCOLOR PENCIL

SCENE PHOTO 1

SCENE PHOTO 2

SCENE PHOTO 3 20

North Unit THEODORE ROOSEVELT NAT’L PARK NORTH DAKOTA

30-40 MPH WINDS WHILE DRAWING

SCENE PHOTO

Gooseberry Falls Source LAKE COUNTY, MINNESOTA

Gooseberry Falls

SCENE PHOTO

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN VECTOR ART

Lookout Mountain 24 GOLDEN, COLORADO

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PLIEN AIRE SKETCH

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR

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

CATSKILLS, NEW YORK 27 SILVER ON BLACK SKETCHES

Sand Beach Sketch 1

Sand Beach Source

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ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE

Sand Beach 2 Sketch

Sand Beach Source

Sand Beach 2 Vector 30

ARCADIA NATIONAL PARK, MAINE

Above Niagra Falls NIGRA, NEW YORK

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Below Niagra Falls

The White Buffalo

The surprising thing about seeing Niagra falls the first time was that my idealized 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. Without 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!

ITHACA, NEW YORK 36

Waterfall Falls Stream Buttermilk

BUTTERMILK FALLS STATE PARK IS A 811-ACRE STATE PARK LOCATED SOUTHWEST JAPANESE OF ITHACA,INFLUENCE NEW YORK 37

SCENE PHOTO

WATERCOLOR PAINTING

Paynes Praire Vector Painting 38 ALACHUA COUNTY FLORIDA

The Badlands

BELFIELD, NORTH DAKOTA

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BEFORE WATER IS ADDED

American Dreamer Watercolor Pencil

American Dreamer Watercolor

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

ROCK SPRINGS WATERCOLOR

SHOOSTY DRAWING ROCK SPRINGS

ROCK SPRINGS GUACHE

Rock Springs Vector Painting ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

Rock Springs

The SEA II

Rocky Mountains 50

Mountains

Veedauwoo

BUFORD, WYOMING SHOOSTY 2020