Hard getting all those stripes in order.
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January 28, 2015
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This Guy
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesNot working on this too hard… Still, working on putting more things into this blog, and posting more regularly.
January 23, 2015
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Game of Thrones Character
By Jack Ruttan in Gouache, sketchesI’m just happy to be painting things, however crudely, and uploading them to the blog. Will try to be more regular with the posting, and entertaining.
January 22, 2015
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Ugly Art is Fun
By Jack Ruttan in color, digitalPretty art is fun too. But there’s a lot of ugly in the system that needs to get out.
January 2, 2015
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Mme. Pellerin R.I.P.
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, watercolor, watercolourMy neighbour, Madame Pellerin, died today, or maybe yesterday. I learned this today from my neighbour Mme. Goudreau. Madame Pellerin had been living in the apartment to the lower right of me in this triplex, and was there when I moved in, in 1991. More recently I would do little chores for her, like shovelling […]
December 30, 2014
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Silhouette Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digitalThis is a digital drawing where I started with a silhouette painted with a large brush, and then filled in highlights and details with smaller brushes.
December 27, 2014
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Star Trek Guy
By Jack Ruttan in digitalThis Star trek dude has no reason to be smug. He’s wearing a red shirt.
December 2, 2014
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Faces from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and elsewhere
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenDid these over the summer, but somehow forgot to put them up. They are mainly from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, when I was sitting in the open air market doing portraits. They’re brush pen and watercolours, mostly.
November 26, 2014
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Professional Artist
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI drew this after watching a few Youtube videos about the “Andrew Loomis” method of drawing faces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BevsH0jOMA This method was actually a revelation to me when I first discovered it years ago, because I’d inherited a few Loomis books from an artist uncle. But am rarely able to get it to work. Just winging […]
November 21, 2014
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Sketchbook Pages
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, sketchesHere are a bunch of images from my sketchbook recently. In gouache, coloured (and not) pencil.
November 21, 2014
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Tonkinese
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, watercolourThis little picture is in honour of my friend’s cat, now sadly departed.