Here’s another landscape. My family has a lot of landscape painters in it. Don’t know if I’m really keeping up the tradition, but it’s fun to smear paint around sometimes.
Archive for May, 2015
May 27, 2015
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Two Paintings of Montreal
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, paintings, watercolor, watercolourI need to take better notes, because it would be nice to know exactly where these places are. One is Ave Laval, I think. The one below is a converted firehall on rue Notre Dame West. Or, I could be way off.
May 23, 2015
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Some Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourDoing a lot of paintings at the moment. Up there is the control building for the revolving bridge that no longer works. It’s from a 2012 photo, and the graffiti is old, and the bike path doesn’t even go by it at the moment. These two pictures are painted on terrible paper. Sort of like […]
May 22, 2015
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These Faces in a Crowd
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, heads, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourPetals on a wet, black bough. Seriously, yesterday I went to the Sartec mixer. That’s the Quebec union or group or whatever for French-speaking screenwriters. Got a couple of wires crossed. The meeting was taking place in the reserved salon, three stories up, and I was waiting downstairs in the bar. Met a nice couple […]
May 20, 2015
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Dollarama Book
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, men, paintings, pencil, sketches, watercolor, watercolourMany watercolour types have to spend a lot on sketchbooks, with the proper paper and all. I found these black spiral-bound books at Dollarama, and they’re pretty good for watercolour. I worry about the paper, since it probably isn’t acid-free. Also, it tends to break free from the perforations along the side rather easily. But […]
May 19, 2015
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Swamps Designed by Accident
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourPainted pictures of “swamps” today, using various random methods. Got paint in my eye. That stung a bit. Above is “wax resist,” which means drawing on the blank paper with a white china marker. I really can’t tell where it goes beforehand. This is China Marker, also my dragging the tail of the brush on […]
May 13, 2015
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Big Gouache
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolourUsually, my paintings are pretty tiny. So it’s nice to break out once in a while, and paint relatively big. (11×10 inches).
May 9, 2015
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It’s Mr. Boggedy!
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenAnd a bonus cyclist!
May 9, 2015
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Watercolour Graffiti
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI like the feeling of a painting taped to a stretching board. It feels solid, unlike the sketchbook paper. So, when I didn’t have to finish a stretched painting I started, I just used it as a place to practice things. The result reminds me of the local “free graffiti wall” east of here on […]
May 1, 2015
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Morning Faces, and More
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, womenSometimes 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.