Sometimes it’s fun to do something completely against the rules, and find out how it works. In this case I found out that trying to stretch ordinary typing paper doesn’t work. Kind of fun to paint on with gouache, however.
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January 18, 2016
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Mr. Boggedy in the Front Room
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFrustration today with Canada Post website, with which the latest technology and biggest brains in the nation (I’m sure), won’t let me figure out how much it will cost to send a painting to the USA. But at least while rummaging through old envelopes I found a cool picture of Mr. Boggedy in my front […]
January 12, 2016
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Hard Cheese for Mister Boggedy
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, pencil, sketchesIt’s been a pretty hard morning to be a gentle, senior cat. First, he tries to walk by the old girl cat. He is hissed at and then swatted for his trouble. He then goes out into the hallway, where he is sniffed and then thwacked by the small cat. Happily it’s all quiet now, […]
January 5, 2016
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Condolence Flowers for the family of Mme. Primeau
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesSomeone I’ve known since 1991. She was born in 1916, passed away this Jan 2nd.
December 21, 2015
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Nora Small Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, watercolor, watercolourDifferent kinds of paper lead to different results. This was a watercolour “block” which was slightly softer and “fluffier” than the paper I’ve been using.
November 25, 2015
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“Traditional” Media
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI’ve been so deep into digital, that I began to wonder whether I could still do useful things with paper. Below is a drawing a made during a phone coversation (they’re often long, at least with my friend). Black ballpoint pen in my sketchbook. Above is a made-up woman painted on a sample of my […]
November 16, 2015
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People and Backgrounds
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintingsI’m pretty thrilled over the control I have of the stylus. Working on backgrounds and lighting now, as well as the people.
November 6, 2015
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Further Digital People
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesDigital is like pen and ink, in that it’s hard to know when to let go of something. There’s always one other little improvement to make. Happily, I seem to have tamed my stylus, which was giving me all sorts of headaches, like a pencil nib that keeps breaking off, or a pen that blobs, […]
November 3, 2015
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Bad Cattery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
November 2, 2015
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Jennifer and Anne
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesBlogging a lot today. (drawing a lot, too!). These are from one of those free magazines I always pick up when going to the movies.
November 2, 2015
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Run DMC
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, digital, sketchesOne of the members of Run DMC. Didn’t want to draw the one with glasses, because, glasses.
November 2, 2015
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Morning Git
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, pencil, sketchesThis kid is annoying me, because he’s on an ad on the iPad I can’t turn off.
November 1, 2015
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