In a bit of a mood. So, these people are appropriate. I still love drawing with the ballpoint pen, no matter how unarchival it may be.
Archive for the ‘color’ Category
June 9, 2015
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Something New
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
June 5, 2015
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Small Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, sketches, watercolourI first thought of titling this post “Fairly Insane Paintings,” but am trying to be kinder to myself. These all measured seven and half-inches wide, and I think I’m going to do a lot more of them, but on better paper. They were fun to paint. I don’t know what possessed me to put a […]
June 5, 2015
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Wedgewood Image
By Jack Ruttan in color, storyboards, watercolor, watercolourI’m very pleased with this image from a current project for filmmaker Jonathan Balacz, WEDGEWOOD. Even though it just appears as an image on a screen inside an image. The two figures are on separate layers, and I hope will be animated to chase each other through the scene, like Punch and Judy puppets.
June 3, 2015
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How not to Watercolour
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourDoing studies of faces today. Also watching Youtube videos detailing all the mistakes I’ve been making doing watercolour. It’s nice to know, but I still have fun doing things my way. Learned stuff, though, which is always good. [Link here!]
June 2, 2015
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Buddies
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, paintingsThis digital painting seems nicer with the “saturation” turned down. I’m still not happy with my digital work, as it doesn’t seem to come as easy, or look as natural, as the watercolour. Still, it’s an interesting challenge, and things always improve as you work on them. To make nice lines with the stylus, I […]
June 2, 2015
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Characters
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourPainting characters the other day, while watching season one of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” which is an often excellent cartoon series in terms of storytelling and characterisation. [Excerpt from Avatar: The Last Airbender] These faces aren’t from that series, but the line about the power plant was.
May 30, 2015
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Landscape
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolourHere’s another landscape. My family has a lot of landscape painters in it. Don’t know if I’m really keeping up the tradition, but it’s fun to smear paint around sometimes.
May 23, 2015
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Some Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourDoing a lot of paintings at the moment. Up there is the control building for the revolving bridge that no longer works. It’s from a 2012 photo, and the graffiti is old, and the bike path doesn’t even go by it at the moment. These two pictures are painted on terrible paper. Sort of like […]
May 22, 2015
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These Faces in a Crowd
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourPetals on a wet, black bough. Seriously, yesterday I went to the Sartec mixer. That’s the Quebec union or group or whatever for French-speaking screenwriters. Got a couple of wires crossed. The meeting was taking place in the reserved salon, three stories up, and I was waiting downstairs in the bar. Met a nice couple […]
May 20, 2015
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Dollarama Book
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, men, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolourMany watercolour types have to spend a lot on sketchbooks, with the proper paper and all. I found these black spiral-bound books at Dollarama, and they’re pretty good for watercolour. I worry about the paper, since it probably isn’t acid-free. Also, it tends to break free from the perforations along the side rather easily. But […]
May 13, 2015
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Big Gouache
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolourUsually, my paintings are pretty tiny. So it’s nice to break out once in a while, and paint relatively big. (11×10 inches).
May 1, 2015
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Morning Faces, and More
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, womenSometimes I don’t trust the scanner to catch all the little subtleties in light watercolour tones. The colours on the palette look like little abstract comic panels.
April 30, 2015
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Sketchbook People
By Jack Ruttan in color, dogs, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFrom my second-floor deck. Also, the nearby dog run.