Someone I’ve known since 1991. She was born in 1916, passed away this Jan 2nd.
December 21, 2015
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Nora Small Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Nora the cat, watercolor, watercolour
Different kinds of paper lead to different results. This was a watercolour “block” which was slightly softer and “fluffier” than the paper I’ve been using.
November 25, 2015
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“Traditional” Media
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, heads, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
I’ve been so deep into digital, that I began to wonder whether I could still do useful things with paper.
Below is a drawing a made during a phone coversation (they’re often long, at least with my friend). Black ballpoint pen in my sketchbook. Above is a made-up woman painted on a sample of my Mom’s old watercolour paper. It’s nice, but surprisingly thin. Still, I’m back into stretching things.
Trying to accomplish a lot of “real” paintings for Christmas.
November 16, 2015
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People and Backgrounds
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, men, paintings
I’m pretty thrilled over the control I have of the stylus. Working on backgrounds and lighting now, as well as the people.
November 6, 2015
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Further Digital People
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketchesDigital is like pen and ink, in that it’s hard to know when to let go of something. There’s always one other little improvement to make.
Happily, I seem to have tamed my stylus, which was giving me all sorts of headaches, like a pencil nib that keeps breaking off, or a pen that blobs, only here the system costs hundreds of dollars.
Still not really “there” yet, and I’m deleting my earlier experiments. But I enjoy the new medium, when it responds, and I can figure out the infinite complexities of layers, masks, brushes, and all these other peculiarities.
November 3, 2015
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Bad Cattery
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, cats, color, Gouache, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
November 2, 2015
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Jennifer and Anne
By Jack Ruttan in sketches
Blogging a lot today. (drawing a lot, too!). These are from one of those free magazines I always pick up when going to the movies.
November 2, 2015
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Run DMC
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, digital, sketches
One of the members of Run DMC. Didn’t want to draw the one with glasses, because, glasses.
November 2, 2015
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Morning Git
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, pencil, sketches
This kid is annoying me, because he’s on an ad on the iPad I can’t turn off.
November 1, 2015
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I Adore Your Cat
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, digital, sketches, watercolor
October 29, 2015
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Mumble… Million Years B.C.
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, dinosaurs
A perfectly scientifically accurate portrayal of a prehistoric scene. I liked those movies.
October 29, 2015
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Jesse B.
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, Portraits
Feeling a little daring here, but this is a digital portrait of my comics pal Jesse Bochner, at one of my favourite hangouts, Monastiraki on Saint Laurence Blvd. in Mile End, Montreal.
October 23, 2015
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Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, men, pen and ink, sketches, watercolour, womenSome new sketches. I’m always drawing, but not been putting everything up, even though I used to do that.
