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 […]
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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
June 21, 2025
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Another Nonce Cat Drawing
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, paintings, self-promotion, sketches, watercolourSo it goes….
June 19, 2025
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Digital Watermelon
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, paintings, self-promotion, sketchesThis 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, sketchesAgain, 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, watercolourQuick 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, watercolourI 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, watercolourJust 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, watercolorCoreopsis Journal Spring 2025 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, writingSo 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 […]
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, watercolourThis 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, watercolourToday 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 […]
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
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, womenThis 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 […]