Last page of one of my last year’s (2024) sketchbooks.
By Jack Ruttan in color, men, paintings, watercolorSassy Squirrel and Cat
By Jack Ruttan in cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourFirecat and Two Guys
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolourWitch Lady with Cat
By Jack Ruttan in paintings, watercolorMy blog still seems to be working, but please bear with me as I upgrade it from the 1990’s version of WordPress. I’ll include links here to where this is officially going on the web, once I figure them out.
This picture was more for Halloween, and was illustrating someone’s story. A much more famous artist did a drawing on this subject for the cover of the New Yorker, and that’s what was coming up on the image search the publication was doing for the story. This picture above is all my own work, however. Though I’ve not set up any anti AI software!
I’m a little curious what it would say if I asked it to “Do an illustration in the style of Jack Ruttan.” I think would respond, “Are you joking? Are you trying to be funny?”
Tags: watercolour
Trees and Kid
By Jack Ruttan in heads, men, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolourLunch with Friends
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, brush pen, heads, montreal, pen and ink, Portraits, Rick Gagnon, sketchesHad lunch with a couple of cartoonist friends. Richard Gagnon, Éric Theriault, and Kurt Beaulieu. Got them to draw things in one of my old sketchbooks. Whee! Almost like the good old days, except what’s older are us three….
This was done with my Pentel Brush Pen, which I promptly lost later in the day. RIP!
Roses and Wildflowers
By Jack Ruttan in collaboration, color, watercolor, watercolourHere’s “Cover Art” by Yours Truly, for the autumn issue of Roses and Wildflowers, “The Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism.”
That’s quite a mouthful, but I’m getting used to it. Please click on the link, and subscribe. Their heart is in the right place!
Montreal Review – of cats?
By Jack Ruttan in sketcheshttps://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/illustration-by-jack-ruttan
Here’s an illustration I did for The Montreal Review of Books, Fall issue, 2023.
It didn’t actually appear in the print version of the magazine, only online. But still, I got some money!
Butterscotch Candies of Death
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, color, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourJack’s Bike Makes the Local News!
By Jack Ruttan in ruttan's place, sketchesVery Quick Star Wars Comic
By Jack Ruttan in sketchesI watched the big Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker on DVD the other evening. I would have been thrilled to see this on the big screen as a kid, but now it just seems like the filmmakers made a lot of notes about what would go into a Star Wars film, and then threw that up on the screen.
They would introduce some new character or machine or alien species that I liked, and wanted to see more of, but then go on to something completely different. All set to a bombastic musical score, and edited very quickly. I need to get back into movies, but why bother when you can create something just as good in your head, or in your $4.00 sketchbook with a pencil on a Monday morning over coffee?