This sheet of paper happened to be lying around, and I don’t think I’ve put these up before, so here you go. It’s Good Friday, and I’m sitting in my front room and typing. I’m also reading Julie Doucet’s New York Diaries, and feeling pretty grateful I’m not going through what she did. Her work […]
Archive for the ‘color’ Category
April 18, 2025
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Old Watercolours
By Jack Ruttan in Book Reviews, color, comics, heads, montreal, Portraits, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
April 12, 2025
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Pig and Man
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, brush pen, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, men, pen and ink, sketchesColoured pencil, ball point pen, and Pentel Brush Pen.
April 2, 2025
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Coen Bro.
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, digital, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, Uncategorized, watercolor, watercolourI’m watching my DVDs again. It helps take my mind off the news, and other things happening around here…..
March 25, 2025
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Train Doodles and More
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, color, Coloured Pencils, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, Uncategorized, watercolor, watercolour, womenIt’s a new sketchbook! These things are expensive. I’m thinking I should be like Chester Brown, and not worry about my legacy. Because I’ll be gone, and then people can fight over the old books, if they want to….
March 23, 2025
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Sunday Cat
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, pencil, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourInaugurating a new sketchbook!
March 12, 2025
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Cats and Comedy
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, Gouache, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
March 10, 2025
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Chrystia
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, Gouache, heads, paintings, pen and ink, pencil, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenInstead of doing important drawings for which there is a firm deadline, I watched politics on my big TV instead. Lots of long speeches. I liked Chrystia Freeland’s face, so I drew that in my Dollarama sketchbook, with my amazing Winsor and Newton Series 150 Chinese brush. I don’t know if it’s actually a Chinese […]
February 28, 2025
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Clip Studio Trees
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, UncategorizedHere’s a painting I made in Clip Studio Paint, with my $80 Huion Tablet, which I bought years ago. I’m just trying stuff out. I like the “Add Texture” feature of the program, which makes it look like you’ve used real paper.
February 20, 2025
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Sketchbooks and word balloons
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, comics, digital, heads, men, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourNot totally sure about the angry guy face, but that’s what’s happening at the moment in my sketchbooks. The person in the snow suit was real. No penguin, though. That was in honour of Matthew Brown, who sent me a hard copy of his book this week. Penguin Detective — The Case of No Case.
February 18, 2025
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Amazon
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere’s another painting from about 2014, of my friend’s cat, Amazon, in her back garden.
February 15, 2025
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February Front Window
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWatercolour 5″x7″ Nicer paper this time….
February 7, 2025
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Mischka
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere’s a watercolour I did of the cat of a friend. Dollarama Da Vinci Paper, and paints named after some other famous artist. 6 by 9 inches….
January 26, 2025
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Space Lady
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, womenThis is a drawing out of an old sketchbook. I’m getting back into comics and things, I promise…..
January 5, 2025
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