Author: jeremysutton

The video above shows me live painting at Caroline and Mark’s wedding reception on board the magnificent Cabernet Sauvignon yacht, part of the Commodore Cruises & Events fleet that sails out of Alameda Island around the San Francisco Bay. It was a beautiful evening and, as you can see in the video, we had a full moon that rose behind the Bay Lights display on the Bay Bridge.

Jeremy Sutton, Caroline & Mark ~ Wedding Reception on the San Francisco Bay, 2017, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate, 36″ x 18″

To hire me to paint at your wedding or any special event, please email me (jeremy@jeremysutton.com). You can see more examples of my live painting on the Live Event Painting page of this site.

Jeremy Sutton, Horszowski Trio at Kohl Mansion, 2017, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate

This drawing was created on February 12th, 2017, from life during a concert of the Horszowski Trio, part of the Music at Kohl Mansion program that takes place in the beautiful historic Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California. This trio will be featured again on February 25, 2024.The musicians featured in this drawing are, from left to right, Rieko Aizawa, piano; Jesse Mills, violin; and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello. They played works by composers Arthur Foote, Leonard Bernstein and Franz Schubert. I drew the whole time they were playing, roughly about 75 minutes. I started before they took to the stage and you’ll notice, if you look at the replay video below carefully, that I first draw in the piano with no one sitting at it and then the musicians arrive and I start to draw them over the piano…

Replay video showing how the drawing progressed from start to finish. This video is integrated into the final image as an Augmented Reality (AR) overlay. The AR overlay can be viewed using your smart phone (iPhone or Android) through the free AR app HidNFlix .

The scene as I drew the musicians.

An early stage of the drawing.

In 2018 I was the Painter-in-Residence at Music at Kohl Mansion. Click here for the June 2018 newsletter which includes some other of my painting subjects:
Miro Quartet
Israeli Chamber Project
Daedalus
Ying Quartet
Gryphon Trio

Cherwell Idyll, Jeremy Sutton 2017, MacBook Air, Corel Painter 2018, Wacom Intuos Pro M pen tablet

On a recent visit to Oxford I was punting along the River Cherwell when I came across Cécile and Rob chatting on the river bank, their punt moored next to them. They kindly let me take reference photos of them. The scene looked like a painting! I painted this using mostly the new Thick Paint and Sargent brushes introduced in the just-released Corel Painter 2018 paint program. It was a great project in which to explore the wonderful new ways you can paint digitally with thick impasto texture!

To learn the new features of Painter 2018 and enjoy hands-on in-person instruction, please join the Corel Painter 2018 Creativity Workshop in San Francisco, July 26 – 28, 2017. For a full list of my upcoming classes and events please refer to my Classes and Events page.

In case you’re not familiar with “punting” it is a wonderful way to propel yourself along a shallow river standing at one end of a flat bottomed boat, known as a punt, using a pole to provide momentum and steering. Here’s a little demonstration:

(Thanks to volunteer videographer Sophie who was just reading a book at the side of the river when I asked her to film this!)

The Couturiers
40″ x 24″ pigment ink print with acrylic on canvas

This painting is based on couturiers Sarah and Danielle who share a studio in the same building as my studio. They kindly let me photograph them at work. Using those reference photos I worked with Corel Painter 2017 and a Wacom pen tablet on an iMac. I shall be teaching the techniques used in my upcoming Painter workshop, Corel Painter Impressionism, July 25th – 28th, 2017, in San Francisco.

Happy Menocal Sketching at Opening of the new Apple Store Union Square, 2016, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate

This iPad sketch is an example of an artist drawing an artist drawing. My subject is New York-based artist Happy Menocal who I drew as she drew at the opening of the beautiful new Apple Union Square, San Francisco, on May 21st, 2016.

Photo above shows me drawing Happy as she draws. Her drawing is projected on the beautiful 6K screen they have in the store.

Here are some more photos from that day to give you an idea of the atmosphere and how amazing the new store is!

This photo shows the monumentally huge two-storey high glass doors slowly closing at the end of the day. A sight worth seeing!

As I walked away from the Apple Store that evening I looked back up Powell Street, saw a cable car pass me and took some reference photos with my iPad. Click here to see “Cable Car on Powell”, the painting I created based on those photos.

Jeremy Sutton, Piccadilly Circus, 2016, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club
If you’re interested to learn how to draw and paint using this amazing combination of tools, I am teaching an “Inspiration From the Masters” iPad Art Workshop in San Francisco, April 28th to May 1st, 2017.

The subject of this drawing is Piccadilly Circus in central London, a circular road junction and public space built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. This iPad drawing was created directly from life, en plein air, as I leaned on a junction box at the edge of the pavement surrounding the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (built on Piccadilly Circus in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Lord Shaftesbury and in which the central sculpture, “The Angel of Christian Charity”, is of the Greek god Anteros, who is generally mistaken for his brother Eros). I started off with making a quick pencil study in my sketch book, photographing that sketch and starting off with it as my background in the app Sketch Club on my iPad Pro. The rest of the drawing was completed digitally.

Here is the replay video showing how the digital portion of the drawing process progressed from start to finish:

And here is what the scene looked like as I drew the initial study on paper in my sketch pad (non-digital kind) and then continued the process on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil and the art app called Sketch Club.

Interestingly enough the famous Piccadilly billboard lights that you see in the background of these photos and the video are now blacked out, never to be seen in their old form again. As you can read in this CityA.M. article, they are being replaced with a brand new single curved (and much higher 4K resolution) advertising hoarding known as “The Curve”.

These screen shots (below) show some of the layers and brushes used in the digital part of the creative process within the Sketch Club app on the iPad Pro:

Jeremy Sutton, Tower Bridge, 2016, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club
If you’re interested to learn how to draw and paint using this amazing combination of tools, I am teaching an Inspiration From Monet to Matisse iPad Art Workshop in San Francisco, April 28th to April 30th, 2017.

The subject of this drawing is the Tower Bridge on the River Thames in London. This iPad drawing was created directly from life, en plein air. I sat on the embankment of the Thames, as you can see below, not far from the infamous Tower of London, and sketched directly onto my iPad Pro on a sunny (and slightly windy) afternoon, catching the late afternoon light as the sun gradually got lower and lower in the sky.

Here is the replay video showing how the drawing progressed from start to finish:

And here is what the scene looked like as I drew the bridge:

Below are screen shots that show some of the brushes I used in Sketch Club:

“It was a pleasure to work with you, and I can’t thank you enough for your contribution to the Opening Night Party. Your Live Digital Painting was a HUGE hit!”
~ Greg Jenkins, Bravo Productions, Long Beach, California

This video (above) shares some of atmosphere and portraits I created at the Opening Night Party of The Special Event show, an events industry conference and trade show which took place at the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California, on January 10th, 2017. The event theme was “Under the Sea” and, as you can see, I created a custom background for the portraits based on photos I took at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Here (below) are some portrait replay videos and photos from the event:

“Thank you tons for the wonderful experience at the conference. Your art is such a unique and wonderful experience.”
~ Colleen

Ryan

Annie

Karen

The Wedding Guru

Jasmine

Linda

Ashley

Audrey

Manuela

Thank you to everyone involved in TSE 2017, and to Will Gresham for his assistance, photography and videography.

Deanna on Viola and Ryan on Cello, Parallel Play SF “Mostly Bach”, 2016, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Sketch Club

This sketch of Deanna and Ryan was drawn directly from life in a single sitting, as the musicians played.
~ Jeremy

Deanna Playing Viola, 2017, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate
This sketch, and the one below of Sarah playing a harp, were both created as part of my Music & Art iPad Drawing Workshop held in my studio. I’ve included the replay videos also, so you can enjoying seeing how each sketch unfolded, brush stroke by brush stroke.

Deanna Playing Viola video replay

Sarah Playing Harp, 2017, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate

Sarah Playing Harp video replay

I painted live iPad portraits of guests at a company holiday party in the Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Court (Rodin gallery) of the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, where a lovely collection of Rodin sculptures is housed. The museum’s large collection of Rodin sculptures will be a central feature of the 2017 Rodin Centenary celebrations next year. I chose my background for these portraits to reflect the location: it includes an 1881 map of the city, the Golden Gate Bridge (which can be seen from the museum grounds) and an iPad sketch I made of one of Rodin’s sculptures called Meditation. My tools were an iPad Pro 12.9″, Apple Pencil and Procreate app.

Wow, that’s awesome!! Thank you, Jeremy! We will definitely recommend you for future events… you were wonderful!
~Pink Lee, Event Director, Small Potatoes Catering & Events

Here are some of the portraits, video replays and photos from the evening:

9″ x 7″ canvas prints of this iPad painting are available for $250 each (including frame, shown below, and excluding tax and shipping). Please email me if you would like to purchase one.

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