I still draw a lot in my little books, but I haven’t been updating the blog every day like I used to. Maybe I’m just getting soft in my old age, or more choosy of what I put up. Here, I’m not being choosy, but this is a little of what I’ve been doing as […]
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September 8, 2014
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Still Scrawling
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, horses, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
August 26, 2014
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Scenes from Life
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourSketch of my bike I drew in my friend’s back yard over the weekend. Can you find the cat? Sketch of some tables in a local park. This is a boy bike riding in the empty wading pool at that same park:
August 26, 2014
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Feathered T Rex sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, dinosaurs, sketchesI love dinosaurs. Always have. Still, I’m trying to keep up with current thought on what they looked like, and not just redraw old images that probably didn’t exist. I like the idea that even the carnivorous ones were probably not monsters, but animals out in the wild. Also, during my summer I worked at […]
August 22, 2014
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Eccentric Paintings of People and Pets
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, dogs, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m not fond of the new way Flickr has of embedding one’s graphics. I just want you to be able to see the one image, not scroll along to a lot of others. Generally, I’ve been embedding them into the website, which is probably a better solution, but I worry about all those graphics piling […]
August 17, 2014
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Digital Woman
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, womenI thought the tear helped make the picture. Still not as fun for me as watercolour.
August 16, 2014
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Watercolour Man
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, watercolor, watercolourJust something I found on the computer; looked cool.
August 15, 2014
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The 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec Garlic Festival is Coming
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenThis is my T-shirt design for the 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Quebec Garlic Festival. That event will happen next week, August 23, 2014. Finally saw the design in print last night at the get-together for volunteers. This happened at a pretty little place called the Coop du Grand Orme. Snaps of things are below. The band is […]
August 8, 2014
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More Morning Painting
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolourActually, working on things I started earlier. Just trying things.
August 4, 2014
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Impression of parc Médéric-Martin
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourhttp://parcmedericmartin.com/
July 31, 2014
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1940s Canadian Gas Ration Coupons
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's placeSomething interesting I found, going through my files looking at old cartoons the other night. An envelope full of old gas ration coupons from my Great Grandpa’s business in Hardisty, Alberta. I don’t think I have the stickers that were supposed to go in the windshield, but all the other items, plus the old stamps, […]
July 31, 2014
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Fritz the Hobbit
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, comics, old comicsA twitter exchange with a University of Calgary alumnus reminded me of this comic I did way back in 1979, for the University of Calgary GAUNTLET. Unhappily, I couldn’t find the first episode in my files, so this is all I’ve got. The narrative is already a little shakey, because I think installments came out […]
July 31, 2014
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Lachine Canal
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, watercolor, watercolourThis wasn’t working as a painting, so I decided to see if I could put little people along the front of it. That didn’t work perfectly, either: some “pentimenti” here — that’s because it’s transparent watercolour, except for the white. Still, fun to try, and I’m not so annoyed with it anymore.
July 28, 2014
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