Author: jeremysutton

Jake, 2021, iPad Pro 12.9 (3rd Gen.), Apple Pencil 2, Procreate 5X

This portrait of Jake was painted from life in an hour and ten minute sitting using the following brushes in the Procreate app:
MB.Oil.C_Coarse RaggedNib C
AN Square Dry
The background is a rock surface from a book stand given to Peggy by her late brother Rob.

Vignale 2021
Pigment ink print on canvas
12″ x 12″

This is the first iPad painting I made en plein air of Podere Vignale, our beautiful farmhouse in Tuscany (EscapetoChianti.com). I used the iPad Pro, Procreate app and Apple Pencil.
 

 

This artwork is extended with an Augmented Reality (AR) overlay video that can be seen using the Artivive app on an iOS or Android smart device. Here are the Artivive app download links for iOS and Android devices:
Artivive on Apple App Store
Artivive on Android Google Play

This artwork, featured in the art collection at Vignale, is available as a 12×12 print on premium canvas in a natural barnwood slim float frame, as shown in these photographs. For pricing see the Prints page.
 

Painting with Neri, Gemma, myself and Peggy at Villa Rosa Panzano.
 

Painting at Villa Rosa Panzano

Two of my artworks, Piano Indigo and Gazebo, were accepted into the juried 2021 Salon at the Triton Museum of Art: Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, which runs through September 12, 2021. Both artworks are extended with an Augmented Reality (AR) video overlay that you can view using the free app Artivive (available on both iOS and Android platforms). Delivering Gazebo and Piano Indigo to the Triton Museum of Art for the Salon at the Triton show

Portrait of Peter painted from life over Zoom using the Procreate app with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

This portrait was created as part of my monthly Zoom-at-Noon series where I share a creative process for about 30 – 40 minutes via Zoom. Peter sat in his home in Denmark while I painted him in my studio in San Francisco. You can watch the entire process (plus banter, of course!) below. I’ve known Peter since my physics days at Oxford University and, as you’ll see, we veer off into tangents at every opportunity!

This is one of my earliest digital artworks. It was create on July 7th, 1991, using a Wacom 12″ x 12″ graphics tablet (SD-420E Digitizer) and SuperMac’s PixelPaint Pro painting software with a Macintosh IIfx computer. The original file is 512 x 512 pixels resolution. You can see below the difference between the original file and a resampled file. There was a beauty in the pure pixelization of the original. Resampled files literally “mush up” the pixels.

I created this at a juncture when my life was starting to transition from physics to art. Honoring one of my physics heroes in digital paint was a poignant way to express that bridge between the world of relativity and quantum mechanics and that of pixels and paint!

Here are close ups showing the beauty of the clean pixelization that reflects both the low resolution and the digital brush processing algorithms of the day:

Compare these to a file of the same image that was resampled and resized to a higher resolution (3000 x 3000 pixels):

Piano Indigo, 2014 – 2021
64″ x 60″, latex ink and acrylic media on canvas
Private Collection (Nevada)

This piano was on the stage when I saw Johnny Boyd, formerly of the swing band Indigo Swing, performing at the Elks Lodge in San Francisco in 2014. I was inspired by its quiet grandeur, sitting alone at the end of the show, bathed in atmospheric stage lighting. The title was inspired by the color that jumped into my imagination as I visualized a painting of this piano, and, of course, the famous composition by Duke Ellington called “Mood Indigo”. For me this piano had a feeling of my own visual mood indigo.

The original “Piano Indigo” artwork I created in 2014 was a digital painting created using the painting program Corel Painter with a Wacom Intuos graphics pen-tablet on a Macintosh computer (iMac):

This year (2021) I was commissioned to create a physically painted version of the same image which I did with a latex ink base (Latex Technology prints whites as opaque ink rather than absence of ink) onto which I spent several weeks painting with acrylic paint, building up the impasto and transforming the painting into a new unique one-of-a-kind painted artwork. You can see it in these photos below hanging in my client’s home above their beautiful grand piano:



Here’s a time-lapse video of the final touches being added to this artwork:

 
In this video (below) I explain my process working on this piece:

 
“Piano Indigo” was one of two of my artworks (the other one being Gazebo) accepted into the juried 2021 Salon at the Triton Museum of Art: Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, which runs June 26 through September 12, 2021.

Delivering Gazebo and Piano Indigo to the Triton Museum of Art for the Salon at the Triton show

For the Salon at the Triton show I created a 48″ x 44″ mixed media one-of-a-kind version of “Piano Indigo”, with a combination of latex ink and acrylic paint on canvas. Here are some photos showing the 48×44 artwork, including some details and the frame:

Thanks to Peggy for the fabulous 2 1/4 inch deep stained maple wood float framing of the two versions of “Piano Indigo” – the 64×60 (private collection) version and the 48×44 (Salon at the Triton) version.

Gazebo, 2019, 18″ x 12″, Pigment and acrylic on canvas

This painting shows an arbor in the beautiful Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach, Florida. It was originally created as a demonstration artwork during a Painter workshop I taught at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in March, 2019, based on a photograph I took during a class field trip using a Canon 6D DSLR. Through the vibrancy, variety and richness of color of paint, digital and physical, I strive to bring life to my subject in a way that goes beyond what can be captured in a photograph.

Here is the original digital painting created using Corel Painter 2019 painting software and a Wacom Intuos Pro M pen tablet with a MacBook Air computer:

This painting has an Augmented Reality (AR) component enabled by Artivive, a free app on iOS or Android. Click on the icon below to be connected to Artivive on the Apple App store:

Enable access to your device camera when you open the Artivive app, turn your volume up. To view the AR video overlay, point your smart device (with the Artivive app running) at the artwork.

This painting was one of two of my artworks (the other one being Piano Indigo) accepted into the juried 2021 Salon at the Triton Museum of Art: Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, which runs June 26 through September 12, 2021. The opening day of the show, Saturday, June 26, the museum will be open 11:00AM to 4:30PM, is also the same day as the Chalk Art Festival at the museum. Drinks (beer, soft drinks, water) and snacks will be available for purchase from 11:00AM to 4:00PM that day. I’ll be there to meet visitors and talk about my work from 1:00PM to 4:30PM. If you’re in the Bay Area please come by, enjoy the art and say hello!

Delivering Gazebo and Piano Indigo to the Triton Museum of Art for the Salon at the Triton show

John and Maria, 2021, 18 in x 15 in, pigment ink print on canvas

This is a portrait of my sister Ros’s in-laws created from life over Zoom (me in San Francisco, John and Maria in their home in Hove, UK). It was completed in a single sitting using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app.