February 5, 2015
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Further Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
In pure watercolours, and digital. These are more like blots. But I promise to pay attention to lighting, and colour, and make them more illusionistic.
February 4, 2015
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Landscapes
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, paintings, sketches, watercolour
I drew 4 tiny landscapes with watercolour pencils, basically as quickly as I could, without thinking about them. This I call the “I can do nothing wrong” style of painting, because I tell myself that as I do it.
January 28, 2015
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This Guy
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, sketches
Not working on this too hard… Still, working on putting more things into this blog, and posting more regularly.
January 23, 2015
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Game of Thrones Character
By Jack Ruttan in Gouache, sketches
I’m just happy to be painting things, however crudely, and uploading them to the blog. Will try to be more regular with the posting, and entertaining.
January 22, 2015
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Ugly Art is Fun
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital
Pretty art is fun too. But there’s a lot of ugly in the system that needs to get out.
January 2, 2015
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Mme. Pellerin R.I.P.
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, watercolor, watercolour
My neighbour, Madame Pellerin, died today, or maybe yesterday. I learned this today from my neighbour Mme. Goudreau. Madame Pellerin had been living in the apartment to the lower right of me in this triplex, and was there when I moved in, in 1991. More recently I would do little chores for her, like shovelling the steps or putting in storm windows. She lived by herself, though she was taken care of by her two sons, who visited often. Sadly, she took ill before Christmas, and the holiday decorations in her windows ended up never being lit.
Though she was very slow in her older age, and walked with her quad cane, as in the drawing up above, she was independent, and lived life on her own terms up to the end. So, I hope she had a happy life.
I had done a sketch of her years ago, when she used to sit in her outdoor rocking chair during the summer, along with a friend, and watch the passing scene as I did from my balcony up above. I wanted to post that as a memorial, but couldn’t find it in my sketchbooks, or my flickr.com queue. So I did a new drawing this afternoon from memory. However this shows her a little more enfeebled, more like she had been recently. It’s my first drawing dated 2015.
December 30, 2014
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Silhouette Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, digital
This is a digital drawing where I started with a silhouette painted with a large brush, and then filled in highlights and details with smaller brushes.
December 27, 2014
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Star Trek Guy
By Jack Ruttan in digital
This Star trek dude has no reason to be smug. He’s wearing a red shirt.