Archive for the ‘ballpoint pen’ Category

June 23, 2024 0

Care Centre

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketches, women

May 12, 2024 0

Green Hair

By in ballpoint pen, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women

 

April 26, 2024 0

April Blog

By in ballpoint pen, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, montreal, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

   Here we are, in my old-fashioned editor, putting up pictures from my sketchbook into my old-fashioned blog. I used to know how to write CSS, and make pretty styles for text and paragraphs. Not to mention the tags for these illustrations. Haven’t done much of that for a long while! I listened to a […]

July 19, 2023 0

Newish Pages

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, horses, men, pencil, sketches

Newish sketchbook pages. You know, I used to put up a drawing every day, and felt unhappy if I didn’t. But these days, while I’m still drawing a lot, I’m not blogging as much. Social Media is strange. I loved Twitter, but they seem to be doing as much as they can to ruin it. […]

June 21, 2023 0

QE Health

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketches

  Sketches from the waiting room of the Queen Elizabeth Health Centre in Montreal. I was there to accompany a friend. No one seems to mind me doing this. Cat and maus are imaginary….

July 20, 2022 0

Puddle Duck

By in ballpoint pen, heads, sketches

Bits of a sketchbook page! Ballpoint pen and highlighters.

June 22, 2022 0

Guys, etc.

By in ballpoint pen, heads, men, Portraits, sketches, women

Various ballpoint characters. Going to pick up that book!

June 22, 2022 0

You-Know-Who Saves…..

By in ballpoint pen, color, sketches

Ballpoint pen, and highlighter!

June 15, 2022 0

Pen People and Things

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

June 12, 2022 0

Anthropomorpic Rabbit and Bike.

By in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour

Watercolour and black ballpoint. I think this character is my “Rabbit” from the comic strips I used to do.

June 12, 2022 0

Harpy

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, women

Looking at pictures by Peter de Seve. He draws scary ladies, which I sort of like. Ballpoint pen, with unapologetic blobs.

March 7, 2022 0

Two things I like to draw….

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, sketches

Cats are self-explanatory. But I’ve always liked airplanes, and especially the DeHavilland Mosquito. As a boy, my Dad picked up a scrap from the famous “F for Freddie,” a Mosquito that unfortunately crashed on an airfield in Southwest Calgary on VE day, 1945. (article here). I don’t know where that bit ended up….

December 6, 2021 0

More sketchbookery

By in ballpoint pen, cats, Coloured Pencils, pencil, sketches, watercolor, women

Pictures done from reference are more “realistic,” but not as much fun to draw as more cartoony things. I sort of adore the way ballpoint pens “blob.” Other artists wipe the point, I think, in between doing cross-hatching lines.

December 25, 2019 0

Metro Sketches

By in ballpoint pen, black and white, pen and ink, sketches

Sketches done on the Montreal Metro, trips over and back to Verdun. I waved at a baby, and he waved back!