Shoosty 2022

Shoosty - The Art of Music

quilt, sarcasm, theater, and family.

CLOCKWISE: THE ELECTORCIST; JASON AND ANNA’S WEDDING PARTY; CINQUE TERRE, ITALY; WYOMING LANDSCAPE; BLUE BEETLE; JASON AND ANNA; DIANE IN THE CENTER AT THE VATICAN MUSEUM.

2022, started with a move into a new home. As soon as we bought the place we started remodeling. I had my hands full with contractors. I made a series of art based on those tradesmen and my love of bookplates. They are like nothing I have ever created.

The highlight of the year has to be our trip to Denmark for the marriage of our eldest son and our new daughter-in-law, Anna. The wedding took place on an ecological island in the north on the Jutland Penisula, called Livo. It takes a ferry to reach the island and there are no cars once you get there. We had the whole island for our guests with about 20 support people. The wedding itself took place in an old oak forest, outside, among the trees. I made two drawings of the sunset and the other of the dancers.

Another highlight of the year was the dream realized with my wife. We promised each other to visit Italy together and we finally did. It was a magical experience. We saw Brunelleshi’s dome in Florence, a Tuscany farmhouse, the Uffizi museum, Cinque Terre, Sicily, and in Rome, saw the Vatican museum. It was like a walk through the soul of the Western world, an undeniably God-like experience, gallery after gallery of the most ornate art I have ever seen.

In putting together this book I realize that the year 2022 was my most productive year by the sheer quantity of work completed. I am shocked to see this volume has 184 pages. My styles continue to evolve. I am constantly learning. My main drawing tool is now the iPad Pro. I am enamored with vector art. It has changed everything, including my paintings. I still like to work with a pen and ink for live music drawings but even those are later converted into sharp focus vectors.

Towards the end of the year, I scheduled three art shows, including speeches, and podcasts. I am not very comfortable in the role of showing, yet I know that to grow as both a person and an artist I need to reach a little outside my comfort zone. The more I do these shows the easier it should become.

The process of making annual books of my art organizes my thoughts in a way that would be impossible later. They are a testament to my resolve as an artist. I now have over 20 books to my name. I like scanning through the volumes and seeing the progression. Everyone changes, few create milestones.

There is no playbook for becoming a successful artist. I believe taking the diligent step of documenting all of my work separates me from 99% of the artists I know. I do not know any other artists that extensively document their work. Most artists have very little organization if any. A catalog raisonne, for an artist, especially one that encompasses their entire collection is a magnificent achievement. As such I take great care in putting this book together.

So what does success mean for an artist? I believe it is the journey of doing what you love. I believe that if I can get my head into the flow state and stay there all day, there is nowhere else I would rather be. Art is a discovery at its best. You discover styles, myths, and history, and you also discover what you are looking at by the act of drawing. In drawing, you uncover poetry and mistakes. Both are useful. And if you pay very close attention, you discover yourself.

Contractors

Hydrolic Architecta

Live Music Drawings

When the music starts I start, When it stops I stop. - Shoosty

HOLY MACKEREL BAR, WILTON MANORS, FORT LAUDERDALE Crazy Fingers

Crazy Fingers - Guitar

Eddie and the Band

Cassidy and Jason on the left - My kids

Pacifico

Original music by Jason Shooster

Album cover by Shoosty

NECTAR’S BAR, BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Zach Nugent - Dead Set2

NECTAR’S BAR, BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Zach Nugent - Dead Set 3 and Detail

NECTAR’S BAR, BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Zach Nugent - Dead Set4

NECTAR’S BAR, BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Zach Nugent - Dead Set5

NECTAR’S BAR, BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Zach Nugent - Dead Set Close Ups

All That Jazz Extrapolation

Anna and Jason’s Wedding PartyJam Session LIVØ, DENMARK

Caravan Palace Vectors

Old Songs Fok Festival 1

ALTAMONT FAIRGROUNDS, ALBANY

ADDIE LEVYB ON BASS

ALTAMONT FAIRGROUNDS, ALBANY

Old Songs Fok Festival 2

Florida Jazz

ALLIGATOR ALLEY BAR, MARGATE, FLORIDA

Tribute to Miroslav Houra

French Horns

Inspired by my friendship with Dr. Kenneth Janson

Horn Illustrated

Horn Sketch

Horn Sketch 2

Nordic Themed French Horn

Celtic Engine

Celtic Sword

The wedding took place on the top of Mount Aspen in Colorado. We took a gondola to get up there and I fogot to bring snow boots. The area was lined with heaters only one was working. We weren’t near it. The weather was perfect for a ski resort as sunset approached. The top of a mountain can get cold quickly, and it did. We had blankets and warm clothing, it was brisk. You could see the vista for miles in every direction. A curious large bird flew overhead. The flowers were beyond anything I have ever seen, the hoopah was completely covered in white flowers. I started to draw as the ceromony started.

I drew the hoopah and it morphed into a scroll, a torah. I drew the bride and groom and thier immediate family, then the audience. I used a technique similar to soft focus where I made the bride and groom sharp and the audience gradually taper to abstraction. The idea was to use the transition from abstraction to formality as if all the possibilities of life are refined into marriage.

I tried to tease out some kind of mythology, some kind of spirt from the location. I choose The North Wind blowing hearts and I added a flying horse.

The Wedding of Ariel and Craig

The final version completed with vectors used photos of the wedding couple to create spot profiles. I exagerated the abstraction and pushed the hearts blown by The North Wind on to the cell phone of the guests and I switched the flying horse for the curious hawks that were actually flying overhead.

DIGITAL DRAWING

Figure Tree

Sunflower Close-UP

Fruits

Fruit Halves

Art Show with Tree

Art Nouveau Tree

Big Tree on a Farm

DENMARK

Dog

DENMARK

Shopping Bags

Landscapes

Mountians

Greecian Landscape

Faroe Island Church

SAN MARGHERITA CHURCH, VANAZZA, CINQUE TERRE, ITALIA

Railroad to Heaven

The View from the Vialto Farm

TUSCANY. ITALIA

DEERFILED BEACH

Deerfiled Beach Pier

FRA MOESGÅRD

STRAND 1892 BY JANUS LA COUR, DENMARK

Fra Moesgård Strand

TRIBUTE TO JANUS LA COUR, DENMARK

REIMAGINED BY SHOOSTY TRIBUTE TO GABRIEL MÜNTER

Lake Estrum

Good Water

Pink Mountains

Kristina’s View

Mountian with Yellow

Rock Springs

FAROE ISLANDS

Everglades Church

Beaver Meadows

Tribute to The Wilson Family

Ancient Study

Hercules chased by the Hydra

Shaking hands with the mayor of Deerfield as I ask him if we can paint the bridge. He liked the idea and explained the roads are a different department then the base of the bridge which is in his pervue.

Hillsboro inlet drawbridge with floating mola manatee. Donated to the Hillsboro Beach Historical Center Placed on auction.

Winner paid 1,500$ 23 carot gold frame donated by Max Munn

The mola pattern can be found in Guatamala, Costa Rica and more. It is usually seen on clothing.

Floating Manatee

Mola Characters

Katie’s Shark

OFF SHORE, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

Katie works with a dive company that visits these giant creature daily. She spends a lot of time in the water.

Bookplates

Tribute to M. B. Keezer

Tribute to Karl Mose

TRIBUTE TO LOUISE

Tribute to Egil Jacobson

Tribute to El Rodel

Unknown Tribute

Tribute to Paul Ranson

The Dreamer A take off of an unknown artist

Glass

Still Life with Dead Fly

Masks

Emperor Robbeviuos the 3rd., Sculped by Shootivius the 1st, Augustus 25th, 2022.

Using advanced vision technology Robbvious the 3rd, father of Russelious, husband of Kristenius of Springith of Coloradio, defended Rome against the visigoths circa 2022, after the wedding of The king of the Argonaunts-us and his bride, Queen of the Nordic island of Danmark, saved the Italian peninsula making it possible for the great cruise ships of the 20th century and the vast heards of tourists who still come to visit his statue to this day. Nearby on the floor is a wooden bowl made by the emperor himself used for alms for

the poor.

Reference Robert Chappe Kristina Chappe #FamousRomanScuplptures #ironyoflife #Shoosty

Emperor Robbeviuos the 3rd

Michelangelo do Lodovico

Buonarroti

Simoni

Bugs

Uncommon Fly with Frame

The Fly - William Blake

Dead Flies

Dragon Fly Green

Violin Mantis Green

Violin Mantis Red

Dancing Beetle

Water Walker Silver

Shoosty Bugs Lamiinae Colored

Shoosty Bugs Lamiinae Gold

Prism Bug

Chateau La Reel 2

A voracious reader, the Light Beyond Beetle is well versed in metaphysics. It has the capacity to both read and digest the words and the paper it was written upon. Don’t be surprised to see them in your dreams or whenever you break on through to the other side. A favorite insect of Jim Morrison, it helped

inspire many of his lyrics. “That’s one hell of a smart bug.” - Jim Morrison

Purple Wasps

CooCoo Wasp Tile

Edessa Rufomarginata Broche

In Vito Weritas with Necklace

Moth with Red Tips

Purple Butterfly

The Crown of Flowers

Peacocks with Mantis

Dragon Fly with Portrait

Recycling Beetle

Scarf

Scarf

The Shoosty Catalog Raisonne

The complete collection of Shoosty art

S hoosty 1958 - 1989

S hoosty 1989 - 2002

S hoosty 2003 - 2009

S hoosty 2010 - 2015

S hoosty 2016 Volume 1

S hoosty 2016 Volume 2

Shoosty 2017

Shoosty 2018

Shoosty 2019

S hoosty 2019 Exhibition - 50 years

Shoosty 2020

Shoosty 2021

S hoosty Artist Statements Throughout the Years

Shoosty 2022

Thematic Books

S hoosty Bugs Volume 1 - 2022

The Ar t of Music - 2022

S hoosty Landscapes - 2022

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Stephen Shooster b.1958, Chester, PA; Graduate of the University of Florida, Fine Art, 1982. He registered the brandname Shoosty® in 2020, which highlights original painting, drawing, and various products including couture and fashion. Shoosty® uses a wide range of styles and materials from physical to virtual. Shoosty® has a dynamic palette using bold colors, extensive reliance on art history and mythology often integrating technology. Stephen Shooster is featured in Marquis Who’s Who in American Art.

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The Son of a Tailor who was The Son of a Shoemaker

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The University of North Florida, Admissions Office, Jacksonville

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Rubell Museum, Library, Miami

Shoosty Bugs, Book, 70 pages, 12” x 12”

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