This is supposed to be Anne Hathaway from The Devil Wears Prada. It looks a little like her….
March 2, 2025
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Anne Hathaway
By Jack Ruttan in black and white, Gouache, heads, paintings, Portraits, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
March 1, 2025
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Hairy Guy in Green
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, heads, pen and ink, self-promotion, sketches
Drawn last year, at least according to the number beside the signature. I’ll try to get into comics more, eventually! Got some interesting old family stuff, as well. So I can post a bit of that, too.
February 28, 2025
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Clip Studio Trees
By Jack Ruttan in color, digital, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, Uncategorized
Here’s a painting I made in Clip Studio Paint, with my $80 Huion Tablet, which I bought years ago. I’m just trying stuff out.
I like the “Add Texture” feature of the program, which makes it look like you’ve used real paper.
February 27, 2025
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Ugly Yoda
By Jack Ruttan in Coloured Pencils, heads, pen and ink, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches
This is just another page from my Dollarama Sketchbook. I used to have a deal where I would post whatever I drew that day, whether it was nice or not, but I’m trying to get back into nicer paintings.
So watch this space. (I’ve got a lot of updating to do on my website and such….)
February 24, 2025
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Garlic People
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, black and white, brush pen, heads, Jack's House of Cats, men, old comics, pen and ink, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, women
Here are some garlic people for Patti, my former showrunner turned chef, and a little R. Crumb-like drawing.
February 20, 2025
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Sketchbooks and word balloons
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, comics, digital, heads, men, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Not totally sure about the angry guy face, but that’s what’s happening at the moment in my sketchbooks. The person in the snow suit was real. No penguin, though. That was in honour of Matthew Brown, who sent me a hard copy of his book this week. Penguin Detective — The Case of No Case.
February 18, 2025
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Amazon
By Jack Ruttan in cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Here’s another painting from about 2014, of my friend’s cat, Amazon, in her back garden.
February 17, 2025
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My Friend’s Back Yard
By Jack Ruttan in cats, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
This is from an older sketchbook, so I suppose it qualifies as “archival.” It’s my friend’s back yard, with her cat, and even a portrait of her, on the left hand side, and Yours Truly on the right.
She hated being photographed, and, I’m assuming, would have hated being painted. But here you are….
February 15, 2025
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February Front Window
By Jack Ruttan in color, Coloured Pencils, Jack's House of Cats, paintings, pencil, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Watercolour 5″x7″ Nicer paper this time….
February 11, 2025
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Boop!
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, old comics, paintings, pen and ink, ruttan's place, self-promotion, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
Betty Boop, in her heyday, and in later years….
February 7, 2025
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Mischka
By Jack Ruttan in brush pen, cats, color, Jack's House of Cats, Portraits, sketches, watercolor, watercolour
Here’s a watercolour I did of the cat of a friend. Dollarama Da Vinci Paper, and paints named after some other famous artist. 6 by 9 inches….
February 2, 2025
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FYI
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, ruttan's placeThis is from my Mom’s copy of The Joy of Cooking (sadly the copyright page and front cover are missing):
But I prefer this one below, which she enclosed. A version of this chili is keeping me warm at the moment!
January 30, 2025
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Papineau Metro
By Jack Ruttan in montreal, sketches, women
This lady was sitting across from me as I was riding the Montreal Metro. She was actually flashier than this, and possibly indigenous. I didn’t sketch her on the spot, but I drew my impression of her later, and scanned it for here. Mainly to prove I could do it….
January 26, 2025
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Space Lady
By Jack Ruttan in ballpoint pen, color, sketches, watercolor, women
This is a drawing out of an old sketchbook. I’m getting back into comics and things, I promise…..