Feels so relaxing painting in watercolours after all this digital staring into the screen thing. I also enjoy painting animals and backgrounds, not to mention plants. So maybe that means some real painting at last. It’s hard to find time for that, though. This sketching I do is mainly therapeutic. Beats punching a wall and […]
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September 28, 2012
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Back to Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in color, dogs, horses, men, sketches, watercolour, women
September 27, 2012
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Etcetera….
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, digital, horses, pencil, womenStill drawing. Feeling a little burnt out, however.
September 22, 2012
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More heads, literary and otherwise.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, digital, heads, pencil, sketchesBeen drawing a lot of heads, mainly in pencil, for digital painting. It’s a process. I don’t feel as if these are terribly ready, but I wanted to share the process.
September 18, 2012
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TETSUO!
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintingsI’m colouring more little sketches via Photoshop and my Wacom stylus. While it’s still not a gorgeous drawing, I’ve used a number of effects here, and am not flipping through layers accidentally. What’s that mean, the non-Photoshop user asks? It means the process is so involved, you can’t even complain about it to a non-specialist. […]
September 14, 2012
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More Heads, and Trees
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, dogs, heads, men, pen and ink, ruttan's place, sketches, womenI’m getting back into the thing of posting what I drew lately, as long as it’s not too dreadful. It’s been hard for me lately, because I’ve been trying new things, and am not totally comfortable with them. Or even convinced that I should be trying them and not doing things more useful. But life […]
September 12, 2012
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Where Have You Been?
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, men, pencil, sketches, womenMainly drawing heads, in pencil: Haven’t felt much like sharing. I’ve been working on things like digital painting in Photoshop, creating websites with Dreamweaver, and also studying a method created by Andrew Loomis in the 1940s for drawing heads accurately. Using guidelines always makes my work stiffer and more wooden, and I’ve been working on […]
August 31, 2012
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Chilling at the Montreal Comic Jam
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, collaboration, Rick GagnonI’ve been occupied with things— haven’t really been blogging much. Also haven’t gotten out for a while to the monthly Montreal Comic Jam. That happens near the end of the month at a strange little bar in east downtown called l’Escalier. (“The Stairway”) Very studenty, hippie sort of bar…. Anyhow, the event has morphed into […]
August 27, 2012
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Jack Ruttan hits Coolopolis
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's placeI wrote an article for the estimable Kristian Gravenor’s blog about true crime and good times in Montreal, Coolopolis. [link] It’s part of a series about people’s first apartments. Let me know what you think! Writing for someone else’s blog is like writing for a magazine, except that you have to be your own editor. […]
August 17, 2012
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Adventures in the Family Tree: My Grandma, Loveny Skogheim Ruttan at Camrose Normal School
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's placeI get a little teary-eyed when I hold and look at this: A gentleman in Vancouver who works in real estate sent it to me. He saved it from a pile of stuff, then googled, and found my page dedicated to my grandmother. [link] So he e-mailed and graciously sent it to me. It’s in […]
August 10, 2012
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Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Garlic Festival
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourGarlic is fun stuff, and good for you too, they say. A friend of mine is co-organizing a festival devoted to it in the Quebec riverside town of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Read about it here: http://steannegarlicfestival.wordpress.com My connection is that I drew the bulb which made it on the festival T-Shirt: Another friend said it looked like […]
August 8, 2012
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Bike Path on the Lachine Canal
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolourNear the Saint Paul lock.
August 1, 2012
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Kentucky UFO Incident
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolourWhile I don’t believe the stories, these are fun for me to draw.