One of the nice things about digital painting, which I think I’ve said before, is that it’s infinitely workable. This picture was sitting around for a while, looking lousy, but came to life for me with the leather jacket and streak of purple.
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March 3, 2015
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Floofy Cat to Adopt
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, Gouache, pencil, sketchesYou can adopt this floofy cat by going here on Facebook.
February 26, 2015
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Rod McKuen’s Co-Existence Bagel Shop Blues
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, collaboration, comics, Rick Gagnon, sketchesThe passing of Rod McKuen the other month reminded me of this comic a friend of mine and I did, based on a spoken word recording made by this famous (maybe in-famous) poet. The “official” beats hated these, as sort of climbing onto the bandwagon, but I think they’re funny and unpretentious. I did the […]
February 5, 2015
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Further Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIn pure watercolours, and digital. These are more like blots. But I promise to pay attention to lighting, and colour, and make them more illusionistic.
February 4, 2015
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Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, paintings, sketches, watercolourI drew 4 tiny landscapes with watercolour pencils, basically as quickly as I could, without thinking about them. This I call the “I can do nothing wrong” style of painting, because I tell myself that as I do it.
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.