Sometimes I don’t trust the scanner to catch all the little subtleties in light watercolour tones. The colours on the palette look like little abstract comic panels.
Archive for the ‘women’ Category
May 1, 2015
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Morning Faces, and More
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, women
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.
September 8, 2014
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Still Scrawling
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, horses, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI still draw a lot in my little books, but I haven’t been updating the blog every day like I used to. Maybe I’m just getting soft in my old age, or more choosy of what I put up. Here, I’m not being choosy, but this is a little of what I’ve been doing as […]
August 17, 2014
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Digital Woman
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, womenI thought the tear helped make the picture. Still not as fun for me as watercolour.
August 15, 2014
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The 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec Garlic Festival is Coming
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenThis is my T-shirt design for the 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Quebec Garlic Festival. That event will happen next week, August 23, 2014. Finally saw the design in print last night at the get-together for volunteers. This happened at a pretty little place called the Coop du Grand Orme. Snaps of things are below. The band is […]
June 25, 2014
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Computer-Painted Characters
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, heads, men, paintings, womenMy computer-painted characters are quicker and more satisfying to draw. I had to reach back into my experience mixing acrylic paints to think of the right kinds of shadows. Still, I feel more confident that I can paint in a pleasant way any subject that occurs to me. Backgrounds and bodies soon to come.
May 9, 2014
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Watercolour Pencils, and other Watercolour-y and Pencil-ly things.
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, men, montreal, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenA lot of little drawings here, so I’m trying a new feature on WordPress (new to me, anyhow). A “Gallery.” Enjoy! Actually, it’s kind of cool, having the random order. Wish there was a function for captions, however!
May 4, 2014
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Morning Pencil Faces
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, men, pencil, sketches, womenIn kind of a funk at the moment because of beginning of the month, raining all day blues. Drawing silly faces helps sublimate some of that. These are scanned, and I may try to do something with them.
April 28, 2014
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More Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in color, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenMore watercolour pictchas. Hotcha! Above and at bottom are done on my Mom’s old paper, almost like paper towel, which is very thin, buckles like crazy (I can flatten it, but it’s some work), and which absorbs tons of paint. No little puddles or run-backs (those little flower-shaped flaws) here. Still, it is very thin […]
April 6, 2014
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Youtube and Tumblr faces
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, heads, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenDrawing is very calming for the nerves. Tough stuff around me, so I’ve been watching art-instruction Youtube videos, and drawing a lot of faces from Tumblr and my private photo file. Mainly Hollywood and TV people, done in pencil and sometimes watercolour.
April 3, 2014
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Anonymous Watercolour Woman
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenHad a bad professional experience the other night. So today, rather than do anything productive, I’ve been drawing things and posting. Also reading and watching. Playing with cats. Hope things recover! I don’t know where any of this leads, but things tend to fit together in different ways.
April 3, 2014
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Rosamund Pike
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, Coloured Pencils, heads, pencil, sketches, womenSaw her in the Tom Cruise movie Jack Reacher, which was a little better than the Lee Child book that I read featuring the character, but that’s not saying much. Anyhow, she as pretty enough, so I searched out a photo to draw a portrait. Here’s a page of faces. The woman in the upper […]
March 23, 2014
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Another Candidate
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, heads, montreal, pencil, sketches, womenOf course, I couldn’t resist drawing the opponent of the Candidate below. Beauty is as beauty does, or so they say!