So it goes….
June 21, 2025
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Another Nonce Cat Drawing
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolour
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!
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, watercolour
This 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, watercolour
Today 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 it really matter?
Looking for a cheap metal paint box now. The only ones at the art store are dear, and, according to the website, out of stock!
May 15, 2025
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Parc Mederic Martin
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, children, dogs, montreal, parks, pen and ink, ruttan's place, sketches, women
Mederic Martin Park sketch. Brush pen….
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, women
This 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 was a big inspiration to me, however, when I first came to Montreal. I picked up her free zine at a local copy centre. And later, her comic, published by Drawn and Quarterly. I may try to include links here, but if you’re reading this, you can look it up for yourselves.
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, women
This 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 from Frontenac Metro with biscuits and soups from Dollarama. And a chocolate bar for Easter for another friend in her care centre.
Originally I was just drawing the mom and child. But then the dad showed up and sat with them, which is why he’s a little more scribbly. They seemed so happy together. The pencil was pretty dull, because a another artist pushed really hard on it to make another drawing earlier in the book. Nice Easter thoughts here…..