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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Today’s Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in Cars, color, Gouache, men, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
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….
June 21, 2025
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Another Nonce Cat Drawing
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour
So it goes….
June 19, 2025
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Digital Watermelon
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, paintings, self-promotion, sketches
This 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, sketches
Again, not too much effort, but it is a cat…..
June 13, 2025
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Station Peeeeeel…………
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, children, color, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
June 10, 2025
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Across the Street
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, children, color, montreal, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Quick drawing of the view across the street. My side is blocked off. It rained a bit, but the sun came out, so it was pleasant to draw….
June 9, 2025
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Thinking of Miyazaki….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, heads, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
I was watching the Miyazaki movie THE BOY AND THE HERON recently, and it inspired me to draw this guy. The scary old man hiding inside the heron disguise. I’ll get away from drawing guys in yellow shirts soon, but this is what’s been coming up lately. So there you go….
June 6, 2025
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Day in the Park
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, montreal, paintings, parks, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Just a recent drawing I did while sitting in the park.
May 27, 2025
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Roses and Wildflowers — Spring 2025
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, self-promotion, watercolor
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, writing
So 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 to read Coreopsis, and Roses and Wildflowers, and subscribe to them, if you like!