Creating at CREATE! Downtown San Francisco
This digital painting was painted live at CREATE!, free public event in Downtown San Francisco https://downtownsf.org/things-to-do/create CREATE! was a wonderful “only in San Francisco” celebration of creativity and the performing, literary and visual arts that took place at the historic Landing at Leidesdorff, next to the Transamerica Pyramid, where the financial district of downtown San […]
Painting the Scene: HQ Soirée at the Barnes Foundation
This digital painting was painted live at a company HQ Soirée gathering at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. The artwork depicts the scene both outside in the courtyard where I was located, and inside in the magnificent atrium where the band played. I started with a custom background that I created using textures from […]
iPad Art 2014
“Ishmeet”, 2014 – This portrait was created from life on a plane journey from London to San Francisco using an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Pencil by 53. Click on the video to see stroke by stroke build up of the painting. “Brandon, Masha and Arthur”, 2014 – This portrait of artist […]
Air Painting! A Revolutionary New Way to Paint
Self-portrait, air paint, first portrait ever created from life with air painting, 11/29/2012 Painting in the Air…Literally Imagine painting in the air, literally… That is now a reality. Since 2012 I have been experimenting with, and helped shape, cutting-edge prototype air painting technologies, working closely with different hardware and software developers. One of the […]
Matisse Performance
Jeremy Sutton as Henri Matisse Tableau Vivant at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, Sept. 14, 2012 In celebration of the opening of the exhibition “William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism” at the de Young Museum I portrayed the great French artist Henri Matisse in a tableau vivant (September, 2012). During the performance […]
Picasso Performance
Man with a Guitar (after Picasso) Created during tableau vivant portrayal of Pablo Picasso at the de Young Museum 2011 30″ x 40″ mixed media on canvas This portrait of Flamenco guitarist Ryan Kelly Garcia was created as part of my tableau vivant portrayal of Pablo Picasso at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, September, […]
Performance as Vincent Van Gogh
De Young Museum, October 2010
Sunflowers 2010 Pigment and acrylic on canvas , 30″ x 36 “ The artworks shown on this page are all inspired by artist Vincent van Gogh and were created as part of my tableau vivant portrayal of van Gogh at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, October, 2010, in celebration of the exhibition Van […]
Degas Performance
Performing as artist Edgar Degas in a historical “tableau vivant” at the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums, San Francisco, July, 2010. The painting you see me working on, Dance Rehearsal (shown below), is an original composition inspired by the compositional approach and style of Degas. Video length: 1 minute 8 seconds Dance […]
Happy Feet, Happy Paint
3 minutes 27 seconds Video of live painting performance, Happy Feet, Happy Paint Herrang Dance Camp, Sweden July 2008 Three minute portrait of Lindy Hop teacher, performer and inspirer Dawn Hampton created live in a cabaret at the Herrang Dance Camp, Sweden. I used improvised painting materials based on what was available in the camp […]