Here’s another oldie!
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November 7, 2024
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Montreal Review – of cats?
By Jack Ruttan in sketcheshttps://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/illustration-by-jack-ruttan Here’s an illustration I did for The Montreal Review of Books, Fall issue, 2023. It didn’t actually appear in the print version of the magazine, only online. But still, I got some money!
October 28, 2024
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Butterscotch Candies of Death
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourI don’t know why these things are so cheap. Only a dollar a bag. They stop me from coughing on the train….
October 21, 2024
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Jack’s Bike Makes the Local News!
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, sketchesCBC News item This was shot on my street the other week. I wondered what they were doing. You can see my bike parked in its usual spot, on the far right of the picture, about 1:14 into the item!
October 21, 2024
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Very Quick Star Wars Comic
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI watched the big Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker on DVD the other evening. I would have been thrilled to see this on the big screen as a kid, but now it just seems like the filmmakers made a lot of notes about what would go into a Star Wars film, and then […]
May 17, 2024
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Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolourI’m just putting this up to see how big the graphic is…. Not too impressive, eh? It’s relaxing sitting on the front balcony doodling faces and the passing scene outside. People go by, things go by, as James Agee put it… Watercolour takes a lot of work to get back to one’s level. Haven’t sold […]
May 12, 2024
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Green Hair
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
April 28, 2024
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Cat Gurl, etc….
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesHey! Another April post! I found the one monochrome drawing underneath the cart that holds my printer. It was dusty, and had lived under there I’m sure since the year under my initials. The second one is from a sketchbook, and more from this year. Sorry for the negative emotion, and swear word. Still, there […]
April 26, 2024
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April Blog
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, montreal, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere we are, in my old-fashioned editor, putting up pictures from my sketchbook into my old-fashioned blog. I used to know how to write CSS, and make pretty styles for text and paragraphs. Not to mention the tags for these illustrations. Haven’t done much of that for a long while! I listened to a […]
March 18, 2024
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Dinos
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m actually glad the more recent reconstructions of Tyrannosaurus Rex aren’t as feathery as they were a few years back, when I drew these things. Mainly I’m posting this because I noticed I hadn’t posted anything this year yet, so I wanted to keep the blog more or less fresh. I am paying for the […]
October 24, 2023
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Ninja Turtle
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesThis is actually just a sketch of a guy in the metro I’ve embellished a little. I don’t get much time to draw in the metro, and I certainly can’t watercolour. But it’s fun to play with things in my book, after the fact.