Haven’t been able to write that much, lately. I’ve also got sketches and words from the Blue Met literary fest last weekend, but haven’t organised them. Overcome as I am by end-of-month nerves. Still, here are a couple of things from off my balcony. The police van pulled away as I was sketching it. But […]
Archive for the ‘watercolour’ Category
April 29, 2015
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Warm Day Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
April 24, 2015
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Watercolour Oddness
By Jack Ruttan in color, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWhy am I painting between bouts of painting? Just on the brain, I suppose.
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.
March 4, 2015
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Rue Notre Dame
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, watercolor, watercolourAt least I think that’s where it is. I didn’t write down the name of the street when I snapped the photo I painted this from.
February 5, 2015
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Further Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches, watercolor, watercolourIn pure watercolours, and digital. These are more like blots. But I promise to pay attention to lighting, and colour, and make them more illusionistic.
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.
January 2, 2015
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Mme. Pellerin R.I.P.
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, watercolor, watercolourMy neighbour, Madame Pellerin, died today, or maybe yesterday. I learned this today from my neighbour Mme. Goudreau. Madame Pellerin had been living in the apartment to the lower right of me in this triplex, and was there when I moved in, in 1991. More recently I would do little chores for her, like shovelling […]
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.
November 21, 2014
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Tonkinese
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, watercolourThis little picture is in honour of my friend’s cat, now sadly departed.