Ross Skoggard Portrait, nude and landscape drawing and painting.

 
 
model on stand
NUDE FIGURE GALLERY
The model's body is at least as individual as his or her face. I try to make a portrait of the body.
chalk double murray ross
PORTRAIT GALLERY
The likeness is not in the exact shape and location of the individual features. People reveal their inner selves more typically in the set of the muscles of the neck, shoulders and face.
Downtown New York
LANDSCAPE GALLERY
A landscape is like a map. You see how to get from one place to another.
 
 
 
studio interior, 1982
INTERIORS GALLERY
Interiors are the most metaphoric genre. You look in to a room through the window of the frame and see someone's attempt to organize space. It's entirely syntactic: meaning is derived through placement.
Self, september 2008
SELF-PORTRAIT GALLERY
A good portrait should embarrass the sitter by revealing something they didn't know people could see in their faces. (That's why I don't like my self portraits.)
Whistler Mountain
WHISTLER SKETCHBOOK
My first time skiing in the Rockies, April 2008. Did a few sketches from the bottom and the top of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia where the 2010 Olympics are going to be held.
 
 
 
chalk nate
NATE PORTRAIT GALLERY
Nate started off looking like me and now looks just like his mother.
watercolor notre dame de paris
PARIS SKETCHBOOK 1979
This is a sketchbook on cheap paper from a trip to Paris in 1979. I went on the spur of the moment to visit a friend who was an artist who lived in Berlin. I had a Berlin sketchbook, too, but it was stolen in Paris.
watercolor spanish sunbathers 3
SPANISH SKETCHBOOK
After Paris I went to Spain.
 
 
 
notre dame 1
NOTRE DAME SKETCHBOOK
I had a studio in Paris for a year in 1970-71 overlooking the back of Notre Dame
Budapest bridges
BUDAPEST SKETCHBOOK
I saw Budapest in April/May 2005
Palm tree
JAMAICA SKETCHBOOK
This was spring 1995.
 
 
 
the back bay
GEORGIAN BAY GALLERY
Smooth granite rocks, crystal clear water and thousands and thousands of little islands make up this magical landcape

 

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