Something vaguely Shakespearean/Elizabethan, in pen and coloured pencil.
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May 16, 2016
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Street Corner
By Jack Ruttan in pencil, ruttan's place, sketchesShould have noted where this was. I think it’s rue Fullum below Ontario. In Montreal, for you strangers.
May 13, 2016
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Dowager Muffin in Pen
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesShe was especially mewy today. But then again, that’s how she always is.
May 13, 2016
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Assorted Sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI’m drawing a lot. Just not putting it up. I shouldn’t do that, I know. Keep up with things. The weather is warmer, so people are wearing less. They’re more interesting to draw, and I’m also on my perch on the balcony to draw them. Above are a pair of women. Trying to channel R. […]
April 21, 2016
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Gouache Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIt’s been a pleasant afternoon, and after some work, I sat on the balcony and painted people who were going by, in opaque watercolour.
April 13, 2016
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Tiger, Tiger
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, color, digital, sketchesDrew a tiger while on the phone last night. And then coloured and textured it here.
April 8, 2016
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Wedgewood Dr.
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesWedgewood Dr. A short written and directed by Jonathan Balazs, with paintings by Jack Ruttan.
April 6, 2016
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Warm-Up Faces
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI’ve not stopped drawing things, just gotten out of the habit of putting them up. Still banging away at digital painting, which I might share some other time. In the meantime, here are some warm-up faces. I draw tons of faces. I prefer to kind of originate things, rather than draw too closely to a […]
March 4, 2016
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New Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, Jack's House of Cats, montreal, paintings, watercolor, watercolourIt’s been a while, but here are some new paintings for “Jack’s House of Cats.” Both of them are re-imagined a little. I snapped the Hotel Kent in the early 90s, when the sign was still up. But in this, I tried to picture what it was like in its “heyday.” The Bain Morgan is […]
March 4, 2016
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Iffy Paper
By Jack Ruttan in color, Jack's House of Cats, montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, watercolor, watercolourFound this sheet of sort of cardboard-y paper in my files. After my recent 1941 Whatman experience, I wondered whether this was one of my better types of paper (it was stored away, and did have “deckled” (ie. neatly torn) edges). It might have been Arches Cold Rolled, or some such thing. So I stretched […]
March 2, 2016
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Further Sketchy Oddness
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, dinosaurs, sketches, watercolor, watercolourThat strange animal was inspired by a person on a palaeontological art website who thought that sauropod dinosaurs might have had trunks. Probably not, but the idea led to an interesting-looking beast.
March 1, 2016
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Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesSketches from the old school yearbook, and Star Trek.
February 19, 2016
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Colour Combinations
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m trying out different colour combinations to see if anything twigs my interest. I have to admit that the yellow ochre underpainting thing is still my favourite, but I don’t want to use it as a crutch. Still, light in these paintings seems to be yellow. These aren’t actually “Wedgewood thumbnail roughs,” (that’s a old […]