It’s been a pretty hard morning to be a gentle, senior cat. First, he tries to walk by the old girl cat. He is hissed at and then swatted for his trouble. He then goes out into the hallway, where he is sniffed and then thwacked by the small cat. Happily it’s all quiet now, […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
January 12, 2016
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Hard Cheese for Mister Boggedy
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, pencil, sketches
January 5, 2016
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Condolence Flowers for the family of Mme. Primeau
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesSomeone I’ve known since 1991. She was born in 1916, passed away this Jan 2nd.
December 21, 2015
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Nora Small Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, watercolor, watercolourDifferent kinds of paper lead to different results. This was a watercolour “block” which was slightly softer and “fluffier” than the paper I’ve been using.
November 25, 2015
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“Traditional” Media
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI’ve been so deep into digital, that I began to wonder whether I could still do useful things with paper. Below is a drawing a made during a phone coversation (they’re often long, at least with my friend). Black ballpoint pen in my sketchbook. Above is a made-up woman painted on a sample of my […]
November 6, 2015
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Further Digital People
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesDigital is like pen and ink, in that it’s hard to know when to let go of something. There’s always one other little improvement to make. Happily, I seem to have tamed my stylus, which was giving me all sorts of headaches, like a pencil nib that keeps breaking off, or a pen that blobs, […]
November 3, 2015
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Bad Cattery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
November 2, 2015
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Jennifer and Anne
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesBlogging a lot today. (drawing a lot, too!). These are from one of those free magazines I always pick up when going to the movies.
November 2, 2015
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Run DMC
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, digital, sketchesOne of the members of Run DMC. Didn’t want to draw the one with glasses, because, glasses.
November 2, 2015
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Morning Git
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, pencil, sketchesThis kid is annoying me, because he’s on an ad on the iPad I can’t turn off.
November 1, 2015
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I Adore Your Cat
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, sketches, watercolor
October 23, 2015
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Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, men, pen and ink, sketches, watercolour, womenSome new sketches. I’m always drawing, but not been putting everything up, even though I used to do that.
October 22, 2015
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Phone Doodle
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, sketchesDrawn while talking on the phone. I can do this because another part of the brain is being used. If I were reading or writing something, I totally wouldn’t be able to hear the conversation. But drawing, that’s different.
October 11, 2015
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Cat Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, digital, sketchesOn the little computer.
October 7, 2015
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Blue Metropolis
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, writingGene Luen Yang Finally getting around to this. The Blue Metropolis Book Fest is Montreal’s premiere English language lit bash, taking place in April. This year I attended a couple of events, mainly centred around graphic novels and their creators. It was great seeing Gene Luen Yang, who gave a workshop on graphic storytelling, and […]