More quick sketches of people and things out on the street.
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
Posts Tagged ‘colour’
June 4, 2009
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Nice Weather Again
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, watercolourHad fun riding my bike the other day. Saw plenty of BIXI rental bicycle stands (there are two within a couple of blocks of me, so there must be a lot — at least here and on the plateau, which is one of Montreal’s more trendy neighbourhoods). And forgot to wear my sunscreen, so got […]
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
June 3, 2009
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The Wonderful Engine…
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolourThis thing looks a little like the power turbines I was writing about in the Power Quest Episode of “What’s That About?” I talk about the show on my site, here: http://mruttan.ca/television.html Have to get busy and finish the links! More new sketches: This is what my work chair looks like in the morning:
Tags: black and white, cats, colour, Nora the cat, photos, sketches, watercolour
June 2, 2009
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Ballpoint Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourI like the feel of a smooth ballpoint in the book. Not the most respected of media, but you can make nice gradated tones with it. I even like them when they blob, but not when they are sluggish, or don’t work so you start carving little ruts in the paper. This one’s more just […]
Tags: black and white, colour, sketches, wash, watercolour
May 29, 2009
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Sketch Paintings
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourCouple of half-sketch half paintings. Gal and gorilla. And long haired villain guy below: Tried to get out to the comic jam tonight, but was driven back by the big rain, and a sore knee. Somehow conspiring to be as rotten as possible, when I wanted to get out. I guess that’s called story irony. […]
Tags: Animals, colour, sketches, wash, watercolour
May 24, 2009
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Funny Faces
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolourAs I wrote in Twitter, it’s fun painting funny faces early in the morning. I snapped these with the camera rather than scanning them. Below is the purple lady from a couple of posts back. I guess that would be called a “second state” if I were printmaking. Little Nora wanted her picture taken, too! […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, Nora the cat, photos, sketches, watercolour
May 22, 2009
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UFO
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourPretty busy with work, which is mainly finding work. Did this sketch this morning, in tribute to one of the purple-haired ladies in UFO, the old British TV series. Will try to do a better one, sometime.
Tags: colour, Film & TV, sketches, watercolour
May 4, 2009
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Sixes and Sevens
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourA little scattered, and nervous, but getting things done. I think these reflect my state of mind. I think everything will be okay, but have no idea at the moment how that will come about.
Tags: black and white, colour, sketches, watercolour
April 29, 2009
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Yellow Dog
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, sketches, watercolour“Old Yeller?” I like drawing in the morning, and I like being spontaneous, but it has its disadvantages. Certain things make me go “darn!” but I wonder if anyone will notice them, or cares. Could be a dog with ears of different length. Or maybe he’s just a dog who looks like that, and it’s […]
Tags: Animals, colour, dogs, Safety Sign, sketches, watercolour
April 27, 2009
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Your Morning Pigeon and Chihuahua
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, watercolourWhat’s a little depressing is when you go a “Graphic Image Search” (GIS for those in the know) for “pigeon,” you get a larger than usual number of dead and messed up pigeons. It’s not the main thing I think of when watching pigeons out my front door, but there are a lot of them […]
Tags: Animals, colour, dogs, watercolour
April 21, 2009
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More Men, and on taking criticism.
By Jack Ruttan in dogs, sketchesKind of like what a complete page in my sketchbook sometimes looks like, rather than a nice drawing excerpted and isolated to show you. Again, the usual paints on a thin, sketchbook paper. I’m a little bit torn up this morning, because a pro illustrator (more successful than I, at least) looked over my website […]
April 9, 2009
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Fast Watercolour Faces
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourOn chintzy paper, no less! Probably a reaction to trying to be so neat and precise the last time, and crying over a misplaced dot of green paint. These are at least more fun to do!
Tags: colour, sketches, wash, watercolour
April 8, 2009
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Further Monster Cats, and Things.
By Jack Ruttan in cats, watercolourThis is Nekko Dekko, the protector of Honshu. Below, a couple of people in red: You’d think it would be easier, painting two pictures on the same piece of paper at the same time. Saves effort stretching it, and all that. But it’s too easy to splatter dark blobs of paint around, and therefore not […]
Tags: cats, colour, watercolour