I’m afraid I’m avoiding watercolours by drawing things such as this. He’s sort of true to this drawing software, which started life out as “Manga Studio.”
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January 23, 2020
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Moose
By Jack Ruttan in watercolor, watercolourBack into watercolours. They’ll get better, I promise! Will use reference next time. Gee, there seems to be no shortcuts when it comes to stretching paper. I tried a lot of them, and no thanks. Paper tape and staples do the job.
January 21, 2020
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New Coloured Pencils
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, men, pencil, Portraits, ruttan's place, sketches, womenA generous friend sent me a set of 168 wooden coloured pencils. (Is it “coloured” or “colour”? The last one sounds slightly illiterate.) I’ve taken them out of their packaging, where they were inaccessible, and put them into yogurt containers, where I can reach them and see what I’m drawing with. Some of the pencils […]
January 18, 2020
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Hot Lemonade
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourThis is kind of cute, and seasonal. I’ve forgotten where it appeared, or what things were supposed to have gone wrong.
December 25, 2019
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Metro Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, pen and ink, sketchesSketches done on the Montreal Metro, trips over and back to Verdun. I waved at a baby, and he waved back!
December 16, 2019
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Even More Pages. In Watercolour and Watercolour Pencil this time.
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI think I’ve solved the “what to title the post” problem for the moment. Even my tools seem to be working better now. Still little strange things, such as how to make the pencil line bigger and smaller in something called InkScape. Who figured out that interface? At least watercolours and pencils don’t have little […]
December 13, 2019
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Various Pages
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, machines, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIt’s hard thinking of witty titles for these things. I’m putting up more pages. Not the stuff I did the other night when I couldn’t sleep. That was weird and also messy.
December 10, 2019
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Neon Gel Pens
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolourOver the past couple of summers, a depanneur (convenience store, for you non-Montrealers) had a jar of gel pens for sale. When I was buying beer or cat food, if I was feeling flush, I’d pick one up. They are fun to play with, and I had a set of kid’s fluorescent paints to […]
December 7, 2019
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The Wind in the Willows Update
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI’ve finished the Project Gutenburg edition of The Wind in the Willows on my Kindle. I can relate to it, because I used animals dressed as people to tell stories, in my Books in Canada cartoons. Still, the characters here are perfect English gentlemen, even if they take breaks to snap up flies once in […]
December 5, 2019
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Blatant Sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFor some reason I’m back into the blog. I don’t think anyone goes here, and the “Blogoshphere” has become a little like one of those abandoned theme parks adventurers like to seek out. Anyhow, I’m baaaaaakk. Not posting as much as I used to, just cool stuff out of the sketchbooks, which are taking too […]
December 3, 2019
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Birdies and Mr. Boggedy
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
December 1, 2019
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The Wind in the Willows
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, Book Reviews, colorI’m finishing off The Wind in the Willows. Very curious book. I remember it being read to me in class when I was tiny, and at that age I didn’t always get all of what was being read or shown to me. Such as when I was watching the movie Mary Poppins, which I loved. […]