Morning paintings, on my deck. I’m aware that one of the cars is on the sidewalk, but I didn’t plan this one very well. Still, I like it.
Archive for the ‘watercolour’ Category
June 19, 2014
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Morning Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
June 4, 2014
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Backyard Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, color, sketches, watercolor, watercolourThese are sketches from the backyard garden of my cherished friend. Above is a gingko tree, though it’s hard to tell. Below, a hair in the scanner, darn it. But I’m too lazy to erase it. The spindly-looking thing is a catalpa tree, which apparently takes a while to “leaf out.” I was using Asian […]
June 4, 2014
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More Paintings in Parks
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, parks, watercolor, watercolourParc des Faubourgs. I painted this from the steps of the Latin American Church across the street (rue Ontario). That’s my bike on the right. Square Viger. Called “Square” in both English and French (not “Carré”) This is an odd little place, full of sculpture, but which has a bed reputation, because it’s isolated and […]
May 22, 2014
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Watercolours of Montreal Parks
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolourParc du Portugal Parc Edmond-Hamilton A park dog
May 14, 2014
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More Splashy Painting
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourHere’s a picture of that odd building by the “Peel Basin” along the bike path in Montreal. I can’t find the reference picture I took, so there’s a lot of interesting graffiti missing here. I may put it in later. Below, I was sitting in a park watching kids playing flag football. In our day, […]
May 11, 2014
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De Rouen Street and schoolyard
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourMore quick paintings, dashed off on my deck. The Schoolyard, with children. Not trying to put them down, I think they capture something, but one is always hard on one’s own work. This one below I did this morning, I’m not so fond of. I’ll let you judge whether you like it or not. Thinking […]
May 9, 2014
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Watercolour Pencils, and other Watercolour-y and Pencil-ly things.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, men, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenA lot of little drawings here, so I’m trying a new feature on WordPress (new to me, anyhow). A “Gallery.” Enjoy! Actually, it’s kind of cool, having the random order. Wish there was a function for captions, however!
April 28, 2014
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More Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenMore watercolour pictchas. Hotcha! Above and at bottom are done on my Mom’s old paper, almost like paper towel, which is very thin, buckles like crazy (I can flatten it, but it’s some work), and which absorbs tons of paint. No little puddles or run-backs (those little flower-shaped flaws) here. Still, it is very thin […]
April 6, 2014
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Youtube and Tumblr faces
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, heads, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenDrawing is very calming for the nerves. Tough stuff around me, so I’ve been watching art-instruction Youtube videos, and drawing a lot of faces from Tumblr and my private photo file. Mainly Hollywood and TV people, done in pencil and sometimes watercolour.
April 6, 2014
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Watercolour Suit Man
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWatching this Youtube of a TV show featuring men throwing paint onto a giant piece of paper inspired me to paint this:
April 3, 2014
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Anonymous Watercolour Woman
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenHad a bad professional experience the other night. So today, rather than do anything productive, I’ve been drawing things and posting. Also reading and watching. Playing with cats. Hope things recover! I don’t know where any of this leads, but things tend to fit together in different ways.
February 26, 2014
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Bluebeard and Friends
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, pen and ink, watercolourInspired by this engraving by Gustave Doré, I did this picture: Bonus young Anita Ekberg:
February 26, 2014
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Morning Pages
By Jack Ruttan in pen and ink, pencil, sketches, watercolourI didn’t draw all of these today. Just was tardy in uploading them. Here are a few of my pals from the Montreal Monthly Comic Jam. Actually, this is last month’s meeting. There was another last night, but I didn’t have the energy to go. Here I was in a bit of a pissy mood, […]
February 11, 2014
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Shirley Temple Thoughts, and Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolourA little sad about Shirley Temple, whom it seemed was an icon of indomitable “cute” childhood, and also proof that you could be a child star, and then turn out all right. Drew this image not as a portrait, just as an idea, based on her image. Also did some proper faces from magazines, in […]