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Defined Watercolor Portfolio - Rick Ragusa Tribute

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Illustrations in Windsor Newton pigments.

earthenware with beard watercolor

Table-top setting. Rendered in the warm days of August while in Oakland, Calf. I was at Hayward State studying HTML and multimedia at this time in 1998. services.

A disciplined artist, if working in the constrains of deadlines - will works to establish balance, true composition, and execute the layout and light source to capture the setting.
This piece is in that discipline where I sketched to still life, and washed in pigments, allowing it to dry, then, building on top of other color values.

 Archer's Cold press paper 12" x 8"

Tomato vine with sourdough bread loaf


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Winslow Homer,American illustrator Watercolor By Winslow Homer, Boston, Mass. Title: Boys on boat launch beach

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My water color rendering are a far less in detail as you can find in many artists. Below is a walk-way to a California retail store with three people in the plaza promenade.

One of My favorite Watercolor artist is Oakland's Richard Ranstorm. Richard uses more "White-space" to define surfaces and bounce white light to show dynamic depth. See his web site at:

Sorreno Valley Book store


Partial watercolor by Brant of a sea scape.

Tall female model upon a stone fence

Above model in a formal studio arts sitting at Calif. College of Arts and Crafts. Circa 1998- I am capturing a mode here.

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Riko Ragusa Tribute, and Peru media(s).


Here is a page tribute to my Late artist friend Richard L. Ragusa. He lived in allot of places, San Diego, Oakland and Petaluma, Ca. Norfolk, VA. New Port and Portland,OR. And of all Places Cusco, Peru, where he rests after Sept. 17th 2006.

Richard earned an AA degree in Commercial Graphic Arts from San Diego City College in 1975. He freelanced in the greater San Diego county area and landed a 15 year long Art Directorship with La Jolla firm Atomic General. He traveled widely, enjoyed painting, coaching softball, and married an outstanding Senior Petty Officer Jan Freeman, USCG. They both had good times together.

Richard the media artist, and the Husband with Jan Freeman
Richard boots-up the Mac PC in Hill Crest Oakland,CA circa 8/1995
Rick  travels in Central India and Cusco, Peru
The Clinton Art Series 1999-2000 by R. Ragusa Cliton 9200 Series de Artwork

Ragusa produced a series of Political satire Art during the Bill Clinton presidency. During 1993 and1994 Rick's studio

was in the Oakland Hills. His work shows the flow of turmoil that splintered the Clinton Presidency in the late 1990's.

Riko was a smooth talker, he was a Art Gallery Director and a Radio host in Newport, Oregon. This twice a month show was broadcasting from KNBT/CBCh Am Newport- Riko hosted "ART-TALK" the talk-Show for All of Oregon in 2002-2003. He worked the control board and believed fluid narrative professional level leadership in all he preformed at. Many of the key Oregon-Art-world professional Mr. Ragusa worked with were: Nancy Jane Reed, then Dir. of the Newport Visual Arts Center; Frank Gildner, then Executive Dir. of the Oregon Coast of the Arts.

Art Talk Program for all of Oregon

On-the-job-Artist-at-large Photos of Rick and his Peruvian Artist Friends and the Public crowd.
Formal Artist reception gala,2004
Riko and his fellow amego de Peru
The gallery shows that Mr. Ragusa and collaborating artist were up-beat, and staged with both media coverage and cross marketing efforts with city mayors and regional dignitaries. Often there was a propose full planning to pig-back on community interest in culture exchanges with sister art association in neighboring providences. Rollover photo: High altitude mountain horse stable.
Continuing the gallery shows that Mr. Ragusa and collaborating artist co-mingle with traveling patrons of the arts in Cusco. Rollover photo: Providential Art Show activities; persons unknown at the May 2008 Ftp, the webmaster will note members when found. Published under fair usage guild lines.
 Rick outside of the Washington DC Museum of Modern Art
 illustration  by R.Ragusa, USA
Another Art gallery show event that Mr. Ragusa shows his Illustrations. The first image is in Washington DC. Your next roll over image gives the crowd the typical opinionated artist presenting his art-attribute critique that pushed Rick's expressionistic artworks.
This is a Silver point etching styled in the Rembrandt discipline. circa 1997. We are unsure if the art was done in Virginia or in Petaluma, CA. However, there is a view among many- that Rick rendered his own self-portrait in the piece.The webmaster is seeking more of Mr. Ragusa's Art for new materail for this page/Keep coming back for another visit, Please.


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(Photos coming soon) - This is a small photo documentary evidence of Mr. Ragusa's Artist activities while in the ancient providence of Cusco City Peru, circa 20004-to-2006 Some Unknown local University level educators and cultural Artisans that Ragusa collaborated and managed Art exhibits during his tenor in Peru may be shown. Return to top of page

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