Going to try to do slightly more exciting things than these. But the computer painting is working not so badly.
November 7, 2014
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Computer Sketch
By Jack Ruttan in digital
This is a drawing I was messing with while hanging out at a friend’s, waiting for some work to be completed. I’ve been doing other drawings, both on the computer, and on paper, but have been lax posting them as of late.
October 20, 2014
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Measuring Clouds
By Jack Ruttan in sketches
I coloured an old drawing I did for a science article in the “McGill Reporter.” It’s called “Measuring Clouds.”
September 19, 2014
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Morning Sketches
By Jack Ruttan in cats, pencil, sketchesMaybe for one of the last times on the balcony, I’m afraid. Inside hazards include overly attentive cats who want to be front and centre on the lap.
Still, these are various people I saw walking past, and an impression of Nora the cat “playing the cello.”
September 11, 2014
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Pencil Drawings
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, pencil
The building is from a book called “Forgotten Architecture” and is a brewery in Baltimore, Maryland. Would be interesting to see if it is still standing. Not a lot of fun to draw, however. Still, I want to do more architecture and machines.
Even though I drew it in brown pencil, it scanned dark, so I tweaked the colours. I’ll use straight lines next time, and better perspective, but I like the wiggly.
September 8, 2014
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Further sketches from the last while
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, heads, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
A page of pencil sketches. Something Harry Potter-y, and more people, drawn with watercolour pencils both activated and not.
September 8, 2014
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Still Scrawling
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, horses, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, womenI still draw a lot in my little books, but I haven’t been updating the blog every day like I used to. Maybe I’m just getting soft in my old age, or more choosy of what I put up. Here, I’m not being choosy, but this is a little of what I’ve been doing as of late.
August 26, 2014
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Scenes from Life
By Jack Ruttan in color, montreal, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourSketch of my bike I drew in my friend’s back yard over the weekend. Can you find the cat?
Sketch of some tables in a local park.
This is a boy bike riding in the empty wading pool at that same park:
August 26, 2014
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Feathered T Rex sketches
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, dinosaurs, sketchesI love dinosaurs. Always have. Still, I’m trying to keep up with current thought on what they looked like, and not just redraw old images that probably didn’t exist. I like the idea that even the carnivorous ones were probably not monsters, but animals out in the wild.
Also, during my summer I worked at the Calgary zoo, I spent some time looking at the raptors (that’s carnivorous birds: hawks, eagles and owls), and the cassowary. That one was an intimidating creature, and it’s fun to think of that beast while trying to re-think dinosaurs.
Unfortunately, I drew a horse head too close in the corner (these sketchbooks are getting cramped!) But there you are.
Will have to do more research, anyhow. These are also interesting to me as ways of messing with colour schemes, and underpainting, to make the pictures look more vivid and bright.
August 22, 2014
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Eccentric Paintings of People and Pets
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, dogs, paintings, parks, sketches, watercolor, watercolourI’m not fond of the new way Flickr has of embedding one’s graphics. I just want you to be able to see the one image, not scroll along to a lot of others.
Generally, I’ve been embedding them into the website, which is probably a better solution, but I worry about all those graphics piling up and taking room. Still, a few posts earlier on have gone blank (the link somehow changed) and I’m not sure at all about my whole older blog on blogger. May try to get that one back, if I can “export” it. Websites are such a pain.
But I am updating my portfolio to show my web work, so there you go.
August 17, 2014
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Digital Woman
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, women
I thought the tear helped make the picture. Still not as fun for me as watercolour.
August 16, 2014
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Watercolour Man
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, watercolor, watercolour
Just something I found on the computer; looked cool.
August 15, 2014
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The 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec Garlic Festival is Coming
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, color, Coloured Pencils, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
This is my T-shirt design for the 2014 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Quebec Garlic Festival. That event will happen next week, August 23, 2014. Finally saw the design in print last night at the get-together for volunteers. This happened at a pretty little place called the Coop du Grand Orme.
Snaps of things are below. The band is Caroline Racicot and co. Did some sketches while I was there. You can see them after the photos.
This is the T-Shirt in action, on Daniel, the founder of the Garlic Fest. Next to him is Patti, who helps organise things, and roped me in.
Here I am receiving the plaudits of the crowd, for my fine work.
The band inside.
The waterway, part of the Saint Laurence.
My sketch of the band, with watercolour pencils.
Later scribble of the guitar player, in pen, without pencil to help!
Patti’s awesome helper, Naomie.
August 8, 2014
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More Morning Painting
By Jack Ruttan in color, paintings, watercolor, watercolourActually, working on things I started earlier. Just trying things.
