November 17, 2025
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Future McGill
By Jack Ruttan in color, self-promotion, watercolorNearly forgot to post this today! There’s yet time.
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, women
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 “pigiste” as you say in French. For some, that’s a synonym for unemployed.
But here on the street I’m living on, kids are having fun, and people of all backgrounds and genders are expressing themselves. So what’s wrong with that?
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, sketches
Seems 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 when I ride the Montreal Metro train. I hope it’s not too scary for other passengers. I missed getting COVID, but I still want to be careful.
September 8, 2025
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September Sketching
By Jack Ruttan in sketches
Sketchbook page.
This is still cheap sketchbook paper, but I’m getting more into the watercolours. Wish I had a better paint box, however. Still, not thinking about it too much, and adding complementary colours seems like a good idea. I’ll do soaking, stapling and stretching with the better paper next.
August 28, 2025
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July Park Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, montreal, pen and ink, sketches
Finally got my sketches uploaded. It was tough scanning these. I’ve got coloured stuff, and I want to paint some more things, but since I’ve got all these new followers on Instagram, I thought I’d better put up something new….
July 24, 2025
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Nonce Dog
By Jack Ruttan in sketches
Here’s something I drew this morning. Getting more into this, but I’m going to try and use my nice paper, and more expensive paints.
July 22, 2025
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Another Kitty
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, brush pen, cats, color, Gouache, pen and ink, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Here’s another kitty drawing! Actually, the original is much brighter. I wouldn’t call it “archival,” however, because I’m using neon markers and those tend to fade with time.
July 15, 2025
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Another Cabin
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Another cabin-type of drawing. Done on better paper this time. Still messing with the paints and my various brushes. Happy the site seems to be working again. Got scolded by the computer for some things which seem to have been resolved. Yay!
June 30, 2025
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Today’s Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in Cars, color, Gouache, men, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
I’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 30, 2025
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Late June Montreal Metro Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, children, color, digital, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, pen and ink, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
I’m lying just a bit. Because only the guy on the upper right was drawn while I was waiting for the train. The rest are from my imagination, and I coloured them at home, and scanned the drawing in.
Oh, okay … I adjusted a few things with my drawing software, but purely by hand. And I digitally “crossed out” something personal….
I’m sort of realising I can just gas on here about whatever. And I don’t know about coding, because I’m not doing it down here…..
June 28, 2025
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Dog and Plant and Pretzel Thing
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, dogs, paintings, pen and ink, sketches
This is another sketchbook drawing which I scanned, and then added to, digitally. No AI!
June 26, 2025
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Digital, Drawn, Photographed whatsit….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, digital, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Okay, this is done with every kind of media, and NO AI!
June 24, 2025
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Front Window
By Jack Ruttan in Art Criticism, color, Gouache, montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
The top one is my painting of the view from my front window. It was actually started some time ago, and I merely finished it today.
But I took a snapshot of what the actual view looks like today, and you can see what matches up, and which bits I got wrong…. It’s all thanks to the awesome power of the human eyeball, as someone once put it….