February 7, 2025 0

Mischka

By in brush pen, cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watercolour of a catHere’s a watercolour I did of the cat of a friend. Dollarama Da Vinci Paper, and paints named after some other famous artist. 6 by 9 inches….

February 2, 2025 0

FYI

By in montreal, ruttan's place

This is from my Mom’s copy of The Joy of Cooking (sadly the copyright page and front cover are missing):

But I prefer this one below, which she enclosed. A version of this chili is keeping me warm at the moment!

January 30, 2025 0

Papineau Metro

By in montreal, sketches, women

This lady was sitting across from me as I was riding the Montreal Metro. She was actually flashier than this, and possibly indigenous. I didn’t sketch her on the spot, but I drew my impression of her later, and scanned it for here. Mainly to prove I could do it….

January 26, 2025 0

Space Lady

By in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, women

This is a drawing out of an old sketchbook. I’m getting back into comics and things, I promise…..

January 23, 2025 0

Costumed Grouch

By in black and white, heads, men, pencil, Portraits, sketches

This guy’s photo went by quickly on my iPhone, and I tried to sketch him as quickly as I could. He’s 6×9 inches, in graphite on crappy dollar store paper.

January 19, 2025 0

Childhood Dog

By in dogs, paintings, watercolor, watercolour

I was digging through what I laughingly call my “archives,” and this little painting fell out. It’s a portrait I did some years ago of our family’s childhood dog, Pimmy. He was a “Toy Terrier,” which meant he was a cross between a Jack Russell Terrier, and a beagle.

Not the brightest dog in the world, but I have fond memories of him.

January 11, 2025 0

January 11th

By in men, montreal, sketches, women



Mostly drawn today, on the Montreal Metro.

January 5, 2025 0

Last page of one of my last year’s (2024) sketchbooks.

By in color, men, paintings, watercolor

Last page of one of my last year’s sketchbooks. I guess I’ll have to type “Copyright 2025” onto all my pages on the web! Not that that’s going to do much, these days….

January 1, 2025 0

Bus lady and Dog

By in paintings, watercolor, women

December 29, 2024 0

Sassy Squirrel and Cat

By in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour


6″ x 9″ Gouache

December 25, 2024 0

Watercolour Kitty

By in cats, paintings, watercolor, watercolour


This is a painting I did this morning. Not a masterpiece, and nothing to do with Christmas, but I learn by doing things, and painting makes me feel good.

Dollarama Watercolour paper, about 5 x 7 inches.

December 17, 2024 0

Firecat and Two Guys

By in brush pen, cats, color, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Cat with tail on fire and two boring men with yellow shirts.

December 15, 2024 0

Witch Lady with Cat

By 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?”

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December 12, 2024 0

Trees and Kid

By in heads, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolour

Young man and trees

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.