I’ve been drawing more than this, but just putting this up for now, to keep the chi circulating.
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
May 10, 2010
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Finding My Way
By Jack Ruttan in horses, men, sketches, watercolour, womenGot some work to do. Just finding my way with a lot of drawings. I’m putting most of them up. My commissions don’t call for watercolour, but if I can do things right in that, I can also handle the black and white. i like my new watercolour book, and also how things look in […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, colour, horses, men, sketches, watercolour, women
May 5, 2010
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Painting up a Storm
By Jack Ruttan in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, womenLotsa little watercolours lately. These are fun to do, and look more sophisticated than my usual production. It’s true that the more you do, the better you get at it. If I stop, it often takes a few lousy pictures before I get up to speed again. A big part of it seems to be […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, men, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, women
May 2, 2010
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Medieval Portraits
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, watercolour, womenJust a couple of pics I sketched from a book of French painting from the 14-15th centuries. These are fun. I’ll do more. And maybe some modern ones.
Tags: colour, men, sketches, watercolour, women
April 30, 2010
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Another day, more sketches. (AKA: What do I title this?)
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, womenDrawing a lot lately, because I’ve got some illustrating gigs. These don’t exactly address the gigs, but they keep my hand in, and make drawing fun for me. Hence plenty of sketches. And I’ve got to put them up don’t I? Allegra, my late lamented small black cat, in graphic watercolour form. This is about […]
Tags: Animals, black and white, cats, colour, sketches, wash, women
April 29, 2010
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Reading Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in men, sketches, womenI used to go to more literary readings, and at one point had resolved to draw a portrait of every author I had witnessed read. That resolution went by the boards a while ago, but I still draw at readings when the mood takes me. This was from an event called the “Literary Luau” at […]
Tags: black and white, books, Brush Pen, men, sketches, women, writing
April 29, 2010
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Fairies, Kittens, Gnomes
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolour, womenTrying to do cute stuff in watercolour, as you can tell.
Tags: Animals, cats, sketches, watercolour, women
April 27, 2010
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Watercolour Stuff
By Jack Ruttan in horses, men, watercolourFor some reason I felt it necessary to scan an entire watercolour sketchbook of mine today. It took all day, too. But I’m not putting any of it up, right now. The above is a new painting. I didn’t really finish it, but I seem to like it this way. Maybe later, I’ll add some […]
Tags: Animals, colour, horses, men, watercolour
April 27, 2010
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Brand New Book
By Jack Ruttan in cats, watercolour, womenBought a nice new sketch book, at l’Oiseau Bleu, one of the few remaining non-chain art stores in Montreal. I’m going to have to draw some of the architecture in the area around there, because there are interesting Beaux arts and Art Deco, even Art Nouveau buildings and details around there. It’s not a rich […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, Brush Pen, cats, colour, wash, watercolour, women
April 22, 2010
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Burlesque Nights
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, womenNever thought I’d be writing that as a title. This is 2010, after all, not 1953 in Montreal with Gypsy Rose Lee and Lily Saint Cyr. Anyhow, the Blue Light Burlesque show wants me to do some drawings for them, and invited me to one of their shows tonight. Even though the MC inveighed against […]
Tags: black and white, sketches, women