I like the feeling of a painting taped to a stretching board. It feels solid, unlike the sketchbook paper. So, when I didn’t have to finish a stretched painting I started, I just used it as a place to practice things. The result reminds me of the local “free graffiti wall” east of here on […]
Archive for the ‘paintings’ Category
April 20, 2015
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Youtube Guys
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, men, paintings, watercolor, watercolourPainted these guys when I was up late last night, watching Youtube. Very tired now, but I worked hard today and solved some problems. So, I’m happy. I don’t think the cats are happy, but maybe they’ll manage.
April 18, 2015
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Stroller
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolor, watercolourStroller woman. Not quite as charming as the ones in the sketches, but I’m not unhappy with how this turned out.
March 26, 2015
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Characters
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourJust sort of warming up, here.
March 24, 2015
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Pair o’ Cats
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, paintings, watercolourI’m calling this a “warm-up,” since I’m really working on a much bigger job. Still, this taught me some things, and finishing it freed up a watercolour board.
March 12, 2015
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Spring-like Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIt was actually possible, yesterday, to sit on the balcony and draw this little postal van, illegally parked across the street. The above is a tiny little thing, but the colours are pretty.
February 4, 2015
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Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, paintings, sketches, watercolourI 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.
December 2, 2014
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Faces from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and elsewhere
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenDid these over the summer, but somehow forgot to put them up. They are mainly from Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, when I was sitting in the open air market doing portraits. They’re brush pen and watercolours, mostly.
August 22, 2014
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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 16, 2014
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Watercolour Man
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, watercolor, watercolourJust something I found on the computer; looked cool.
August 8, 2014
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More Morning Painting
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolourActually, working on things I started earlier. Just trying things.
August 4, 2014
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Impression of parc Médéric-Martin
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourhttp://parcmedericmartin.com/
July 31, 2014
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Lachine Canal
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, watercolor, watercolourThis wasn’t working as a painting, so I decided to see if I could put little people along the front of it. That didn’t work perfectly, either: some “pentimenti” here — that’s because it’s transparent watercolour, except for the white. Still, fun to try, and I’m not so annoyed with it anymore.
July 28, 2014
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