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March 31, 2009
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More characters
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourI like this pair. It’s a music teacher and his student. The background is what you get if you mess your paint around after applying it to dry paper. I’m often frustrated in trying to get a smooth perfect wash, but find this sort of thing much more interesting to look at.
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March 24, 2009
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Page O’ Colour
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolourSick today. So I coloured that cat I drew earlier, and painted some other faces.
Tags: cats, colour, sketches, wash, watercolour
March 17, 2009
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Pony Club
By Jack Ruttan in horses, watercolourTough doing plain backgrounds…
Tags: colour, horses, watercolour
March 15, 2009
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A Really Terrible Party…
By Jack Ruttan in watercolourOr maybe a fun one, if you’re into it.
Tags: colour, watercolour
March 12, 2009
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Rabbit Rider
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThis warrior character fears his masculinity is being compromised by his having to ride a giant quarter-rabbit. But the villagers will probably be as terrified as ever. He should have and painted frightening runes on the sides of his mount, and tied victims’ skulls to the saddle, in order to increase the menacing effect.
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
March 10, 2009
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Getting Out
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAbove, some fantasy with the Queen of the Fridge. Below, one of the first of the season’s real-life sketches.
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March 9, 2009
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Guitar Heroine
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAnd some mono-chromatic characters:
Tags: black and white, colour, pencil, sketches, wash, watercolour
March 6, 2009
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Dragon Broad
By Jack Ruttan in watercolourThis was a lot of work. Still, if I want one of these pictures to look less silly, I’d have to carefully plan it: do thumbnail drawings for composition, value studies so I could develop a proper colour palette, and then draw my figures from copy. This would involve multiple studies so the proportions and […]
Tags: colour, watercolour
March 5, 2009
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Military Footing
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThe guy above looks pretty formidable. Might be doing some military-themed things in the next while. But most of what there is to do at the moment, is wait for some things to come through. Below, some more characters, including, up top, the late Montreal artist Betty Goodwin.
Tags: colour, planes, sketches, watercolour
March 4, 2009
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Solaris Couple
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourThese are a pair of characters from the beginning of Tarkovsky’s Solaris, which I am watching in the Criterion edition, graciously leant to me by my sketching friend Rick. I think they’re his production manager and co-writer, which he put into his film because they were lucky for him, and also close at hand. The […]
Tags: colour, film and TV, sketches, watercolour
March 3, 2009
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Slightly Gothic
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourTags: colour, sketches, watercolour
March 1, 2009
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Pool Player
By Jack Ruttan in sketches, watercolourAs promised, here’s the hot pool player that Rick beat the other night. I think she also beat the other guy, or at least he stopped playing as well as he had against Rick, for whatever reason. This is drawn just from memory. She maybe didn’t quite look so much like Morticia of the Addams […]
Tags: colour, Gagnon Fridays, sketches, watercolour
February 28, 2009
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More Fridays
By Jack Ruttan in cats, sketches, watercolourMore Friday evening stuff, back at the bar. Above is a drawing by Marr which I watercoloured, and dressed up the people to make a 1960s scene, like I remember from Yorkville, Toronto’s glory days. Below is sort of by all three of us. I did two characters, Marr did a character (on the left), […]
Tags: black and white, cats, collaboration, colour, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour