I really hope that the little art shop in Chinatown near Clarke Street has survived. I like independent shops more than the big chains. Found cool stuff there, such as this book, and that brush. This is actually a face I did years ago, in black gouache, and just added colour to, today.
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March 28, 2022
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Eastern
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
March 7, 2022
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Two things I like to draw….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, sketchesCats are self-explanatory. But I’ve always liked airplanes, and especially the DeHavilland Mosquito. As a boy, my Dad picked up a scrap from the famous “F for Freddie,” a Mosquito that unfortunately crashed on an airfield in Southwest Calgary on VE day, 1945. (article here). I don’t know where that bit ended up….
February 23, 2022
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Jump
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, horsesI come from Alberta, and when I was younger, I spent a summer building jumps and painting fences at the Spruce Meadows Equestrian Centre. While I’m not a great rider (my sister was!), I loved seeing the horses. They liked seeing me, out in the fields. I think they mistook the paint cans for feed […]
February 18, 2022
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News Extra
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, sketchesThis was such a fun freelance gig. I did illustrations and writing for NEWS EXTRA, a newspaper tabloid sold at supermarkets and gas stations. It pretended to come out of Florida, but was actually published from an office in the Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood of Montreal. Every other week or so I brought in […]
February 9, 2022
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Transformations
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesOut of my files, this is a comic I did way back in 1988, when Robocop was a big deal, and the Transformers Cartoon was airing. I used this as a sample of my work, but don’t think I got it published anywhere, even in a Fanzine, which is kind of stupid. It’s still a […]
January 31, 2022
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Tuscan Red
By Jack Ruttan in Portraits, sketchesA couple more sketchbook pages! Pencil used was my Prismacolour “Tuscan Red.” (I think of Star Wars more than Italy here!) Or it could be brown, come to think of it. I’ve sharpened it so much it’s now a numb in a pencil holder! Esi Edugyan has a cool lecture series at the moment on […]
January 25, 2022
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Helen
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesDigital colour, which I find harder than the traditional deal….
January 21, 2022
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Wattacullas
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesMore or less practicing here, pictures just out of my head. Nice heavy paper with texture. Fabriano 140lb. I need new paints, however. These are pretty tiny, BTW. 8 by 5 inches or so…..
January 18, 2022
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MLK
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, Portraits, womenThis is a little late for Martin Luther King Day, but I drew him a couple of years ago, for an article for Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre. It’s called It Can Happen Here, and it’s written by Ron Boyer.
December 6, 2021
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More sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, cats, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketches, watercolor, womenPictures done from reference are more “realistic,” but not as much fun to draw as more cartoony things. I sort of adore the way ballpoint pens “blob.” Other artists wipe the point, I think, in between doing cross-hatching lines.
November 28, 2021
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Yet Another Sketchbook Post
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI have lots of sketchbooks on the go at any one time. Here’s one that I started in May of this year. These are the first few pages. Sometimes I’m in a bit of a mood when I draw these. But they generally look fun, even if people rarely smile in these drawings. It IS […]
November 26, 2021
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Okay, some more….
By Jack Ruttan in heads, horses, pencil, Portraits, sketchesI decided to scan a few more. This is sort of an old book, from the beginning of the pandemic. These are $4.00 “Dollarama” sketchbooks, which are great, because they are cheap, and the paper likes watercolour. Brush pen, though, sometimes wicks a bit. These things claim, however to be “acid free paper,” which is […]