I was digging through what I laughingly call my “archives,” and this little painting fell out. It’s a portrait I did some years ago of our family’s childhood dog, Pimmy. He was a “Toy Terrier,” which meant he was a cross between a Jack Russell Terrier, and a beagle. Not the brightest dog in the […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
January 11, 2025
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January 11th
By Jack Ruttan in men, montreal, sketches, womenMostly drawn today, on the Montreal Metro.
December 29, 2024
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Sassy Squirrel and Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour6″ x 9″ Gouache
December 25, 2024
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Watercolour Kitty
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, watercolor, watercolourThis is a painting I did this morning. Not a masterpiece, and nothing to do with Christmas, but I learn by doing things, and painting makes me feel good. Dollarama Watercolour paper, about 5 x 7 inches.
December 17, 2024
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Firecat and Two Guys
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
December 12, 2024
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Trees and Kid
By Jack Ruttan in heads, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolourI’m watercolouring again. Using the cheap paper, but still, it’s good to get into things. I did the kid separately, and then digitally pasted him in. So, it’s a combination digital/watercolour work, if you want to be technical about it.
December 8, 2024
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Lunch with Friends
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, heads, montreal, pen and ink, Portraits, Rick Gagnon, sketchesHad lunch with a couple of cartoonist friends. Richard Gagnon, Éric Theriault, and Kurt Beaulieu. Got them to draw things in one of my old sketchbooks. Whee! Almost like the good old days, except what’s older are us three…. This was done with my Pentel Brush Pen, which I promptly lost later in the day. […]
November 28, 2024
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Roses and Wildflowers
By Jack Ruttan in collaboration, color, watercolor, watercolourHere’s “Cover Art” by Yours Truly, for the autumn issue of Roses and Wildflowers, “The Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism.” That’s quite a mouthful, but I’m getting used to it. Please click on the link, and subscribe. Their heart is in the right place!
November 11, 2024
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Jeanne-Mance Park
By Jack Ruttan in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere’s another oldie!
November 7, 2024
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Montreal Review – of cats?
By Jack Ruttan in sketcheshttps://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/illustration-by-jack-ruttan Here’s an illustration I did for The Montreal Review of Books, Fall issue, 2023. It didn’t actually appear in the print version of the magazine, only online. But still, I got some money!
October 28, 2024
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Butterscotch Candies of Death
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourI don’t know why these things are so cheap. Only a dollar a bag. They stop me from coughing on the train….
October 21, 2024
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Jack’s Bike Makes the Local News!
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, sketchesCBC News item This was shot on my street the other week. I wondered what they were doing. You can see my bike parked in its usual spot, on the far right of the picture, about 1:14 into the item!
October 21, 2024
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Very Quick Star Wars Comic
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI watched the big Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker on DVD the other evening. I would have been thrilled to see this on the big screen as a kid, but now it just seems like the filmmakers made a lot of notes about what would go into a Star Wars film, and then […]