December 17, 2024
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Firecat and Two Guys
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
December 15, 2024
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Witch Lady with Cat
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolor
My blog still seems to be working, but please bear with me as I upgrade it from the 1990’s version of WordPress. I’ll include links here to where this is officially going on the web, once I figure them out.
This picture was more for Halloween, and was illustrating someone’s story. A much more famous artist did a drawing on this subject for the cover of the New Yorker, and that’s what was coming up on the image search the publication was doing for the story. This picture above is all my own work, however. Though I’ve not set up any anti AI software!
I’m a little curious what it would say if I asked it to “Do an illustration in the style of Jack Ruttan.” I think would respond, “Are you joking? Are you trying to be funny?”
Tags: watercolour
December 12, 2024
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Trees and Kid
By Jack Ruttan in heads, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolour
I’m watercolouring again. Using the cheap paper, but still, it’s good to get into things. I did the kid separately, and then digitally pasted him in.
So, it’s a combination digital/watercolour work, if you want to be technical about it.
December 8, 2024
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Lunch with Friends
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, heads, montreal, pen and ink, Portraits, Rick Gagnon, sketches
Had lunch with a couple of cartoonist friends. Richard Gagnon, Éric Theriault, and Kurt Beaulieu. Got them to draw things in one of my old sketchbooks. Whee! Almost like the good old days, except what’s older are us three….
This was done with my Pentel Brush Pen, which I promptly lost later in the day. RIP!
November 28, 2024
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Roses and Wildflowers
By Jack Ruttan in collaboration, color, watercolor, watercolour
Here’s “Cover Art” by Yours Truly, for the autumn issue of Roses and Wildflowers, “The Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism.”
That’s quite a mouthful, but I’m getting used to it. Please click on the link, and subscribe. Their heart is in the right place!
November 11, 2024
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Jeanne-Mance Park
By Jack Ruttan in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Here’s another oldie!
November 7, 2024
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Montreal Review – of cats?
By Jack Ruttan in sketcheshttps://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/illustration-by-jack-ruttan
Here’s an illustration I did for The Montreal Review of Books, Fall issue, 2023.
It didn’t actually appear in the print version of the magazine, only online. But still, I got some money!
October 28, 2024
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Butterscotch Candies of Death
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolour
Butterscotch Candies OF DEATH
I don’t know why these things are so cheap. Only a dollar a bag. They stop me from coughing on the train….
October 21, 2024
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Jack’s Bike Makes the Local News!
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, sketches
CBC News item
This was shot on my street the other week. I wondered what they were doing. You can see my bike parked in its usual spot, on the far right of the picture, about 1:14 into the item!
October 21, 2024
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Very Quick Star Wars Comic
By Jack Ruttan in sketches
I watched the big Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker on DVD the other evening. I would have been thrilled to see this on the big screen as a kid, but now it just seems like the filmmakers made a lot of notes about what would go into a Star Wars film, and then threw that up on the screen.
They would introduce some new character or machine or alien species that I liked, and wanted to see more of, but then go on to something completely different. All set to a bombastic musical score, and edited very quickly. I need to get back into movies, but why bother when you can create something just as good in your head, or in your $4.00 sketchbook with a pencil on a Monday morning over coffee?
September 23, 2024
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First Day of Fall Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Coloured Pencils
First Day of Fall Cat
May 17, 2024
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Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour
I’m just putting this up to see how big the graphic is…. Not too impressive, eh?
It’s relaxing sitting on the front balcony doodling faces and the passing scene outside. People go by, things go by, as James Agee put it…
Watercolour takes a lot of work to get back to one’s level. Haven’t sold a ton of things, but I’m enjoying just splashing around with a brush. Might try holding some watercolour workshops!