Nearly forgot to post this today! There’s yet time. I did this as a promotional postcard way back, maybe in the last century. Or, perhaps in the year 2005.
Archive for the ‘self-promotion’ Category
November 2, 2025
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Graffiti Wall on rue de Rouen.
By Jack Ruttan in children, collaboration, Jack's House of Cats, men, montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, self-promotion, Uncategorized, womenhttps://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6936154?utm_source=Cabtastic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-october-2025-cab-post Coolness not too far from here. I think my Bachelors Degree in “Humanities,” while not a royal road to riches, gave me insights into different cultures and other points of view. In University I did a lot of courses in Anthropology, and some in Psychology and Sociology. Then I became a freelancer, or […]
September 26, 2025
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Jack Self-Portrait
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, Coloured Pencils, digital, men, montreal, pencil, Portraits, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour
September 13, 2025
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Last Dollarama Book
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, men, montreal, parks, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketchesSeems like the dollar store has stopped selling the kind of sketchbook that I like. That’s too bad. They were cheap, but not too terrible. Still, I’ve filled an entire shelf with these ones. I’ll find a different type to use…. The person on the bottom is Yours Truly, dressed the way I usually am […]
June 30, 2025
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Today’s Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in Cars, color, Gouache, men, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m getting back into this. It takes a while to “ramp up” with watercolour, if you want to take it seriously. Still a ways to go, however!
June 21, 2025
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Another Nonce Cat Drawing
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolourSo it goes….
June 19, 2025
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Digital Watermelon
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, paintings, self-promotion, sketchesThis is digitally painted on my unassuming computer, with my $80 digital stylus…. But no AI was involved. It’s just me messing around, getting back into the “real” world, such as it’s been. No heartstopping realism, I’m afraid….
June 15, 2025
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Pencil Cat
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, Jack's House of Cats, pencil, self-promotion, sketchesAgain, not too much effort, but it is a cat…..
May 27, 2025
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Roses and Wildflowers — Spring 2025
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, self-promotion, watercolorCoreopsis Journal Spring 2025 Here’s my “Cover Image” for the Spring edition of Roses and Wildflowers! Enjoy, and follow the links!
May 23, 2025
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Coreopsis, and Roses and Wildflowers
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, collaboration, color, digital, heads, machines, men, paintings, self-promotion, watercolor, watercolour, women, writingSo much scary stuff in the world today! Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a post-apocalyptic science fiction story. Well, one of the things I’ve been doing to help deal with that feeling has been doing work for the online journals of a few of my friends down south. Please visit the link below […]
May 19, 2025
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Borzoi
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, dogs, montreal, paintings, parks, pen and ink, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourThis critter ticks a lot of my boxes on the “Categories” section of my WordPress blog. It’s a rendering of a dog, and it’s in watercolours, and part digital….
May 17, 2025
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A Very Good Day
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourToday was a cool day, for some reasons I won’t go into here….. Here is my Dollarama sketchbook, and (coincidentally) Dollarama Watercolours. 24 perfectly decent tubes for $4.50 Canadian total (plus tax). Probably not as quality as Winsor & Newton, or even some of the other brands at Omer Des Serres, but what does […]
April 18, 2025
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Old Watercolours
By Jack Ruttan in Book Reviews, color, comics, heads, montreal, Portraits, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenThis sheet of paper happened to be lying around, and I don’t think I’ve put these up before, so here you go. It’s Good Friday, and I’m sitting in my front room and typing. I’m also reading Julie Doucet’s New York Diaries, and feeling pretty grateful I’m not going through what she did. Her work […]
April 17, 2025
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Parc Mederic Martin Family
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, children, men, montreal, parks, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, womenThis family was very cute, and ignored me as I sat with my sketchbook and non-alcohol beer in an Adirondack chair that happened to be facing the big swinging bench outside the playground, and by the bike path and tennis courts. I had been visiting my friend in the Rosemont-Maisonneuve hospital, and was walking back […]