This 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.
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
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 […]
May 17, 2024
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Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, Gouache, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, montreal, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolourI’m just putting this up to see how big the graphic is…. Not too impressive, eh? It’s relaxing sitting on the front balcony doodling faces and the passing scene outside. People go by, things go by, as James Agee put it… Watercolour takes a lot of work to get back to one’s level. Haven’t sold […]
May 12, 2024
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Green Hair
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women