Been painting sometimes strange watercolour portraits of women. Going for pretty more than scary, but they’re all interesting, at least. Plus, a bonus pencil drawing of a little boy, from the front cover of VOIR newsweekly:
Archive for the ‘paintings’ Category
December 5, 2012
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Watercolour Women
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, heads, paintings, pencil, watercolour, women
October 23, 2012
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Maisonneuve Library
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, watercolourThis is a gift for a friend. A little painting of the Maisonneuve Library, in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal.
October 18, 2012
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Guys, and a Dancer
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, men, paintings, watercolour, womenAbove was copied from an old photo. I feel they get too tight when done that way. Want to loosen up some. And all the people below are looking in the same direction. Watercolour is more unforgiving than pencil (big discovery!) Still, I enjoy doing all the shading. Strong darks and lights help a lot.
October 10, 2012
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Warmer Times
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, womenThe above was sketched on my friend’s verandah, when it was warmer, and possible to do such things. Below is more stuff from my head, and out of one of my books.
October 5, 2012
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Alien Attack
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolour, womenThis is a fun painting I did on a theme I was thinking about earlier.
September 18, 2012
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TETSUO!
By Jack Ruttan in digital, paintingsI’m colouring more little sketches via Photoshop and my Wacom stylus. While it’s still not a gorgeous drawing, I’ve used a number of effects here, and am not flipping through layers accidentally. What’s that mean, the non-Photoshop user asks? It means the process is so involved, you can’t even complain about it to a non-specialist. […]
August 8, 2012
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Bike Path on the Lachine Canal
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolourNear the Saint Paul lock.
August 1, 2012
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Kentucky UFO Incident
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolourWhile I don’t believe the stories, these are fun for me to draw.
July 10, 2012
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Flowers and Trees
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, paintings, sketches, watercolourFor a job that’s taking longer than it should (these are the lazy days of summer, after all), I’ve been painting flowers. It’s outside my comfort zone, but that’s why I take these tasks on, to learn new things. The clematis above aren’t perfect (mainly a matter of colour), but I’m working on it today. […]
April 18, 2012
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Pretty Pict-chas
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintings, sketches, watercolour, womenHere are some digital and watercolour pictures (and blends of both) that I’ve been doing today, and over the weekend. So many things to tell about these, and there are still challenges, and important things to learn. But what’s most important is that I’m feeling comfy with the tools, and having fun. Above is using […]
Tags: digital, men, watercolour, women
April 12, 2012
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I’m Still Figuring this Digital Thing Out!
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, digital, men, paintings, pencil, sketches, womenIt will be nice when I can reliably produce images i’m happy with. Anyhow, it’s fun to play with, if a little time-consuming. I’m not a portrait type (that’s why I’m working on these!), but the machine has tools (particularly Photoshop’s “Liquefy”) which allows you to make little adjustments to a picture which would otherwise […]
Tags: digital
April 2, 2012
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Relaxing
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digital, men, paintingsA couple of quick digital paintings I did on my little computer (an Asus EEE subnotebook) while chatting with a friend. This is good, because it means I’m generally getting more relaxed with it! Still so much to learn. Check this page, for instance. I should post most of my useful digital painting training links, […]