Went to a launch, which was really a reading, of books by some friends of mine. I like to sketch during these things, but this time I found that drawing the people sitting around listening was more interesting than drawing the readers. Once, long ago, I had decided to draw every author whose reading I […]
Archive for the ‘montreal’ Category
April 25, 2012
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DC Books Launch at Blue Metropolis
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, montreal, pen and ink, sketches, women
December 8, 2011
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Peggy Burns from Drawn and Quarterly
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketchesWent to a chat today by Peggy Burns, who is the marketing person for Drawn and Quarterly Books in Montreal, speaking at the Atwater Library. She talked about the history of Drawn and Quarterly, some of their artists such as Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, and Lynda Barry. Also got into a little of […]
Tags: ballpoint pen, comics, current events, montreal, sketches
October 24, 2011
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Eric Drooker at Drawn & Quarterly
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketchesThe other night I went up to the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore on Bernard Street, in the vaguely trendy area of Mile End in Montreal. Amazingly got a seat right by the lectern, with a view of the screen, as below. Drooker’s event was billed as a Workshop on Art and Activism, but it was […]
Tags: Activism, current events, montreal, Pen & Ink, photos, sketches
October 20, 2011
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Daniel Clowes and Seth
By Jack Ruttan in montrealSaw them the other night, at an event sponsored by Drawn & Quaterly publications. Two big cartoonists at the tops of their games. Didn’t have much to say to us struggling types. Neither of them really uses a computer, or worries about people reading their comics. Clowes talked about what it was like being nominated […]
Tags: cartoons, current events, montreal, photos
October 11, 2011
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Griffin Art – Séguin Poirier Gallery/Studio
By Jack Ruttan in montrealA visit to the Seguin Poirier Gallery-Studio in Griffintown, Montreal. http://seguinpoirier.com This is another of my little point-and-shoot camera video interviews focused around aspects of the art scene I happen to encounter during my wanderings in Montreal. I’m formalizing it now as “Art Chat” and have bought that name as an address for a web […]
July 22, 2011
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Sonja and I
By Jack Ruttan in montrealShot of a drunken me (Jack Ruttan) and the estimable (and late) Sonja Skarstedt at the now-defunct Double Hook Bookstore, sometime in the early 1990s. Photo by Geof Isherwood.
Tags: books, literature, montreal, photos, poesy
July 6, 2011
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Street People
By Jack Ruttan in men, montreal, sketches, watercolour, womenOn Saint Viateur, during the recent Feast of Saint. Marziale. And rue Masson:
Tags: men, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
June 30, 2011
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Pinocchio
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's placeTaking a break from all the sketchbooky angst to post these shots of a performance of “Pinocchio” in the local park, still going on, even as I type this!
Tags: current events, montreal, photos, ruttan's place
June 14, 2011
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L’Écho d’un Fleuve
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's placeSpent a while shooting and editing videos of the annual L’Écho d’un Fleuve event, which happens in this neighbourhood every June. It’s a thrill to do, and wonderful to think one lives in a neighbourhood where such things take place. Hooray for artists and dancers and all. Not an easy life. But it’s great to […]
Tags: current events, montreal, ruttan's place, visual art
June 11, 2011
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F1 Confusion
By Jack Ruttan in horses, montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolourYesterday, I went to check out the Formula 1 Festivities downtown in Montreal. Snapped a few photos, as above. Kind of tiring, the whole thing, so I took a pit stop in Dorchester Square, ate French Fries, and sketched the equestrian monument to the wildly popular Boer War.
Tags: Animals, colour, current events, horses, montreal, paintings, photos, sketches, watercolour
April 28, 2011
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Back to the Balcony
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, watercolour, womenSitting on the balcony drawing again. People go by, things go by.
Tags: montreal, sketches, watercolour, women
March 9, 2011
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Alsatian
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, men, montreal, watercolour, womenThe drawings look more realistic when copied from photographs. My problem is, it’s boring to draw from photographs. I’m painting shapes rather than trying to think around an object. Oh, I just remembered. Drew some sketches on the metro the other day. These to me are the best faces. I don’t know they have a […]
Tags: Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, montreal, Pen & Ink, watercolour, women
February 16, 2011
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Tonight’s Efforts
By Jack Ruttan in men, montreal, paintings, watercolourPainting more stuff tonight, after working hard. Tough days, actually, in various ways, though things aren’t bad. Getting stuff going, making decisions, dealing with things. Hope it all works out! It is February, though. One thing is from a photo, the other an elaboration of a quick sketch I made.
Tags: colour, men, montreal, paintings, watercolour
February 14, 2011
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Abandoned Building
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, watercolourPainted this today, from a friend’s photo of a building (I think) near Turcot Yards. Should do a lot more of these sorts of things.
Tags: colour, montreal, paintings, watercolour