Oil Demonstration 69Lance Ross has been a professional artist all
of his working life. He studied life drawing at
the National Gallery Art School, won fi rst prize
for fi gure drawing with the Victorian Artists’
Society and is included in the book Artists and
Galleries of Australia and New Zealand by Max
Germaine. He was accepted as a member of the
Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and
was a Foundation Member of the Australian
Society of Marine Artists.
He alone organised what was Australia’s largest
ever art show: The 1973 Melbourne Art Show in the
Royal Exhibition Buildings. Ross has sold hundreds
of fi ne art paintings in oils and watercolours. Prints
of his work hang in seven countries.
He has won international and Australian
awards for fi ne art, graphic design, town
planning, poster design, brochure design and
writing, has written and illustrated best-selling
books, published top-selling magazines,
published limited edition prints of his paintings,
greeting cards and designed artists’ materials.
Ross has completed many commissions for
drawings and paintings of single and family
portraits, nudes, landscapes, cars, buildings,
yachts, horses and many other subjects.
He has sold numerous marine paintings
of sailboats, powerboats, seascapes and
warships, with work hanging in an Admiral’s
office in Canberra, the Australian Gallery of
Sport and the Olympic Museum.
Contact at
[email protected]
http://www.lanceross.com.auABOUT THE ARTIST
STAGE 8 COMPLETED WORK
Edouard Manet paints Claude Monet and his wife Camille in his studio boat, oils on canvas 76 x 101 cm (30 x 40")
Portraits, clothing, altered shadow angles and strengths, varying color tones, completion of lady rowers and plants among the grass. The collage
of Monet’s own painting of the studio boat has been added along with the painting title for viewers unaware of who’s who. The expression on
Manet’s face and his posture suggest that the boys may have asked a curious question or made a challenging remark. Also, the two women in the
rowboat are from a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, titled The Skiff (La Yole).