Author: jeremysutton

The portrait above and those below were created during a real estate company’s annual Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas. I painted these portraits of guests throughout the summit, including at their Halloween party on the famous Riverwalk (you can tell by the wonderful costumes!), as well as during conference breaks and reception times.

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The painting below was created as part of a 30 minute platform presentation, “Unify in Art”, I gave at the summit on their gala award dinner night. The summit theme was Unify and my presentation built on the role of unifying in making art – bringing together brushstrokes, colors and different visual elements into a cohesive and unified whole. The presentation took place on the Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos) / All Souls Day, a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased, and create home alters to remember them, for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. San Antonio was decorated for the festivities, as was the hall where I gave the presentation, and so I included motifs and colors in this painting that reflected these decorations.

This painting was created live at the VISA Infinite Experience at Shack 15 in San Francisco. The brief was to evoke the feel of San Francisco and I chose to depict scenes from the Golden Gate Park, Victorian houses, North Beach and a bridge that mixed elements of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges.

The client also asked me to create a different custom artwork (below), also evoking San Francisco, that I printed out and framed and was placed in all the guest gift bags to take home with them.

Here are some photos from the event:

This portrait was created as part of a Portrait Conversation keynote for a fundraiser for the Simpson Foundation that took place in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the keynote myself and David, one of the residents of Simpson House, sat on stage and discussed his life and some of his inspiring stories. As I drew out the stories in our conversation I also drew his portrait on the iPad, projected in real time on a large screen above the stage. The audience enjoyed experiencing a portrait of David emerge in both words and paint at the same time!

This painting was created live at the Name Reveal Event for Princess Cruises latest cruise ship, the Sun Princess. Before the name was revealed I live painted a scene of the view from the deck of the cruise ship showing Greek islands and the Agean on the left and an Alaskan scene on the right. Then for the reveal I painted a sunrise happening, starting with night and transforming into the early morning light, with the Sun Princess depicted on the right.

The actual reveal was so beautiful: a dancer was suspended below a balloon and danced in the air with the setting sun directly behind her as the fabulous electric string quartet Spinphony Strings played The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”.

My paintings, virtual murals, were displayed in real time on a 60′ x 20′ floating barge display system moored at the terminal. The audience could enjoy seeing the brush strokes as they built up into the completed artworks.

This is the replay of the first artwork I made:

Here are some photos from the event:

And the artworks:

Big thank you to the whole team, talent and staff involved in this fabulous event!

This video shares the time lapse replay of my live painting at the Municipal Association of South Carolina (MASC) 2022 Annual Meeting reception in Charleston, SC. The artwork depicts some of the iconic historic architecture and sights of Charleston, as well as of some other beautiful cities and towns in South Carolina. I also depicted some of the guests attending the reception.

The artwork was created live based on direct observation using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app. It was shared on a large display screen for all guests to enjoy watching the live art evolve throughout the evening.

Huge thanks to Ken and his amazing MASC team as well as the great staff of The Charleston Place!

This painting, a virtual mural, was created live at a private VVIP dinner in the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. It depicts the scene and captures the atmosphere. The artwork was displayed in real time as it was created on a large screen visible throughout the magnificent event space. The room had dramatic floor-to-ceiling glass windows on two sides through which we were all treated to an amazing colorful sunset view looking out over the beautiful Boston Seaport.

Here are some photos from the event:

Big thank you to the staff of the ICA and the team at this event. Great working with you all!

This video captures the celebratory atmosphere painting live digital portraits at the Afterpay 2022 Pride Parade Watching Party in San Francisco. Afterpay is part of the company Block.

All the portrait subjects received digital files of their portraits that they could immediately share on their social media. Here are some of the portraits and a few photos from the event.

With big thanks to Liz and the her wonderful colleagues at Afterpay! Thank you also to Nina Bris, Peggy G and the others whose photographs and videos are shared in my montage video.