Newish sketchbook pages. You know, I used to put up a drawing every day, and felt unhappy if I didn’t. But these days, while I’m still drawing a lot, I’m not blogging as much. Social Media is strange. I loved Twitter, but they seem to be doing as much as they can to ruin it. […]
Archive for the ‘ballpoint pen’ Category
Newish Pages
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, horses, men, pencil, sketchesQE Health
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketchesSketches from the waiting room of the Queen Elizabeth Health Centre in Montreal. I was there to accompany a friend. No one seems to mind me doing this. Cat and maus are imaginary….
Puddle Duck
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, heads, sketchesBits of a sketchbook page! Ballpoint pen and highlighters.
Guys, etc.
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, heads, men, Portraits, sketches, womenVarious ballpoint characters. Going to pick up that book!
You-Know-Who Saves…..
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketchesBallpoint pen, and highlighter!
Pen People and Things
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolourAnthropomorpic Rabbit and Bike.
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWatercolour and black ballpoint. I think this character is my “Rabbit” from the comic strips I used to do.
Harpy
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, womenLooking at pictures by Peter de Seve. He draws scary ladies, which I sort of like. Ballpoint pen, with unapologetic blobs.
Two things I like to draw….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, sketchesCats are self-explanatory. But I’ve always liked airplanes, and especially the DeHavilland Mosquito. As a boy, my Dad picked up a scrap from the famous “F for Freddie,” a Mosquito that unfortunately crashed on an airfield in Southwest Calgary on VE day, 1945. (article here). I don’t know where that bit ended up….
More sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketches, watercolor, womenPictures done from reference are more “realistic,” but not as much fun to draw as more cartoony things. I sort of adore the way ballpoint pens “blob.” Other artists wipe the point, I think, in between doing cross-hatching lines.
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!
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.
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 […]
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. […]