I’ve finished the Project Gutenburg edition of The Wind in the Willows on my Kindle. I can relate to it, because I used animals dressed as people to tell stories, in my Books in Canada cartoons. Still, the characters here are perfect English gentlemen, even if they take breaks to snap up flies once in […]
Archive for the ‘sketches’ Category
December 5, 2019
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Blatant Sketchbookery
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFor some reason I’m back into the blog. I don’t think anyone goes here, and the “Blogoshphere” has become a little like one of those abandoned theme parks adventurers like to seek out. Anyhow, I’m baaaaaakk. Not posting as much as I used to, just cool stuff out of the sketchbooks, which are taking too […]
December 3, 2019
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Birdies and Mr. Boggedy
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
June 29, 2018
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Knausgaarding
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, Book Reviews, pencil, Portraits, sketchesFinishing up the fifth volume so far of Mr. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s series “My Struggle.” My mind is a little blown, but his story stimulates me not to give up on my own journey. My pal is waiting for the final volume, coming out in September, but I will have to wait until she’s finished […]
April 28, 2018
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Digital and Traditional Sketchbook Pages
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesI messed with both digital and traditional (as it’s called) sketchbook pages today. The traditional pages, compiled into books, are more organised. The digital ones are everywhere, squirreled into cryptic files, over two computers. There’s a tiny bit of digital here, anyhow!
April 28, 2018
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Pages from One of My Sketchbooks.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, cats, color, Coloured Pencils, Gouache, sketches, watercolourThere’s a lot that I draw that I don’t put up. Trying to remedy that a bit. It’s not all brilliance, but here it is. Pencil, coloured pencil, Gouache. I think that’s covered it, technique-wise.
March 15, 2018
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Priestess
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, paintings, sketches, womenInspired by an unpleasant character from a U.K. Le Guin story.
March 3, 2018
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Various Men, and a Dragon
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, men, paintings, sketchesOne of my big problems with digital was that the line was sort of more wiggly, and things would get away from me. I’m feeling more in control of it now, however, and it’s almost like drawing on paper for me, now. More work, however. Not as relaxing staring into the screen, and thinking about […]
February 16, 2018
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Colourful Background People
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, sketchesI’ve always liked the “cloud brush” in Photoshop. Again, I feel the purely digital people are getting better with practice. I can also scan in some pencil drawings from the book, and colour those, as well!
January 30, 2018
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Digital Character
By Jack Ruttan in digital, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches
January 26, 2018
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Short Pencil
By Jack Ruttan in Art Criticism, color, Gouache, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI don’t actually prefer a short pencil, I just get a little hysterical when the lead breaks off inside the pencil when I’m trying to sharpen it. I hate that.
January 16, 2018
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Housing Clinic
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, montreal, pen and ink, sketchesSketches taken during a visit to Arnold Bennett’s housing clinic in Montreal. He does good work with people who have apartment problems.
January 14, 2018
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Tabby Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digital, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketchesDigital kitty drawing, drawn on the tiny computer, which hasn’t got a great display.