I 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.
Archive for the ‘color’ Category
February 4, 2015
0
Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, paintings, sketches, watercolour
January 28, 2015
0
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 22, 2015
0
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.
November 21, 2014
0
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
0
Tonkinese
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, watercolourThis little picture is in honour of my friend’s cat, now sadly departed.
September 8, 2014
0
Further sketches from the last while
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourA page of pencil sketches. Something Harry Potter-y, and more people, drawn with watercolour pencils both activated and not.
September 8, 2014
0
Still Scrawling
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, horses, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI 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 […]
August 26, 2014
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
Watercolour Man
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, watercolor, watercolourJust something I found on the computer; looked cool.
August 15, 2014
2
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 […]