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October 21, 2014January 26, 2015

Silicon Valley Series
at the San Jose Marriott

The Silicon Valley Series
San Jose Marriott
Ballroom Pre-function Area (on the Mezzanine Level)
301 S Market Street (cross street is W San Carlos Street, next to the San Jose Convention Center)
San Jose, CA 95113

Permanent installation of a series of eight custom-made site-specific artworks on the topic of Silicon Valley. Each artwork is a 60″ x 60″ Océ VariaDot UV inkjet print on .125″ 6061 Aluminum plate with random orbit finish and UV protective matte clear coat finish, held up by 1″ stainless steel support posts.

Below is a list of the eight artworks. The title and icon of each listed here links to a dedicated artwork page where you’ll find a higher resolution image of the artwork and more detailed description.

#1 Land & Transformation

Land & Transformation looks back at the lost orchards of Silicon Valley and a time when the land of the Santa Clara Valley was the fruit basket of the world before being transformed into the center of innovative high technology that we know as Silicon Valley today.

#2 Humans & Machines

Humans & Machines reflects on the long history of humans and their invention of and interaction with machines that ultimately led to the birth of what we know as Silicon Valley.

#3 Founders & Visionaries

Founders & Visionaries is a tribute to the insights, vision and leadership of the key people behind the foundation and growth of Silicon Valley and whose genius has paved the way for generation after generation of risk-taking entrepreneurial Silicon Valley leaders and visionaries.

#4 Circuits & Structure

Circuits & Structure reflects the architecture and design of integrated circuits or microchips, and the resulting physical structure and look of the devices and components they are used in.

#5 Bits & Bytes

Bits & Bytes is a visual nod to the programmers who generate the machine code, the zeroes and ones, and write the programming code that underlies the digital revolution pioneered in Silicon Valley and is used in computers and the vast array of devices, internet-based industries and apps.

#6 People & Work

People & Work represents the people who work in Silicon Valley, many coming from all over the world to fill the need for tech workers as well as for workers in the vast infrastructure that supports Silicon Valley companies.

#7 Products & Consumers

Products & Consumers reflects the diverse range of products produced in, emanating from and impacted by Silicon Valley. These products positively impact the lives of millions of consumers across every corner of the globe.

#8 Growth & Value

Growth & Value is an artistic allegory about how small Silicon Valley beginnings end up generating massive companies with huge international impact, an innovative and entrepreneurial growth pattern repeated again and again in Silicon Valley.

If you’re interested to learn more about the fascinating history of Silicon Valley and how an agricultural paradise transformed into a fountain of high tech innovation and enterprise, then here are some links to check out:
“Why Does Silicon Valley Exist?”, San Francisco Chronicle
“Silicon Valley: The Lure & the Legends”, Los Altos History Museum
Online Exhibits, Computer History Museum
“Silicon Valley: History & Future”, Gregory Gromov

October 7, 2014October 21, 2014

Live Painting at Nuit Blanche
Toronto 2014

Live painting at the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, October 4th, 2014

The Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is an annual all night arts festival (7pm – 7am!) that attracts over one million attendees. Art installations of all kinds pop up for one night throughout downtown Toronto. I was invited to perform live digital painting by Nuit Blanche sponsor Scotiabank at this year’s Nuit Blanche. Scotiabank had an art installation,”1nspired Night”, set up on a main street called Spandina Avenue. There were two banks of seven 8’ x 8’ LED screens spread over 100’ length.

Photo by Elan Eisen

I created a live digital painting using Corel Painter 2015 and a Wacom Intuos Pro pen tablet that was displayed in real time over the seven screens (my artwork had a 7:1 aspect ratio). I continuously worked on a single canvas, taking it through many many stages. I painted themes and motifs connected with Toronto, including the iconic skyline, the neighborhoods, the bluffs, the street cars, the new and old City Hall, the city logo, and so on. I worked with a mix of pure paint, photographs, patterns and textures. My ever-transforming canvas and mixing of images paralleled the music mixing of the DJ.

The audience reaction was great. Here are a couple of the notes I received afterwards:

“Hello Jeremy,

I had the pleasure of speaking with you and watching you at work in the cold night hours of Nuit Blanche.

Between the Earth and the Sky was the theme of the night and you fulfilled the mandate perfectly! It was a wonderful example of the meeting of the earth, up to date technology, and the heavens, the inspiration for fine art. It was a delight to see the classical art of fine drawing and it’s contemporary digital application. It was also one of the most successful installations of the whole event in my opinion. You lit the night sky with those fabulous, bright screens in an avenue of radiant colours. And of course the subject was delightfully metropolitan.

Congratulations.

Best wishes,

Julian M.”

“Dear Jeremy,

Thanks so much for sharing the video of your Nuit Blanche performance which was marvelous. I’m so glad you braved the cold night to share your vision of our city with all who passed and stopped to watch. Of all the portraits of Toronto that I have ever seen yours captured the dynamism and beauty of what I think is one of the best cities in Canada. The movement and light, colour, the all encompassing total of what you saw and gave back to us was mesmerizing. I will look at the video whenever I need a lift.

Take care,

Sharon C.”

As I painted I captured various stages of my ever-changing artwork. Here are a few of the stages. You have to imagine these split into seven 8′ x 8′ square LED screens spread over 100 feet!

On October 2nd I performed live painting at Scotiabank’s Pre-Nuit Reception in their historic banking hall which is in a beautiful Art Deco style building. I used some of the fabulous reliefs in the building interior and exterior surfaces as paper textures and repeating motifs in the transforming artwork I created. “I couldn’t take my eyes off your painting all evening!” said one guest. Here are a few of the stages of the artwork from the Pre-Nuit performance:

Here are some photos from the Nuit Blanche evening. Thanks to everyone who kindly shared their photos with me.

Photo by Steve Bolt

Photo by Steve Bolt

Photo by Steve Bolt

Photo by Carl Armstrong

Photo by Carl Armstrong

Photo by Ilona Posner

The display screens were right next to the street car rail tracks…

Photo by Andrew Lam

Photo by Carl Armstrong

Photo by Carl Armstrong

With Steve Bolt, Lead User Experience Designer for Corel Painter, the painting program that I used throughout this event (along with a Wacom Intuos Pro pen tablet and the Wacom Cintiq 24 HDT you see on the easel)

Here are comments that onlookers wrote on my comments sheet during the Nuit Blanche evening:

“beautiful! very good!” ~ Alice B.
“wow!” ~ Greg R.
“love your work!” ~ Christina S.
“AWESOME!” ~ Pedro
“Excellent” ~ Carver
“WOW!” ~ Carrol vS.
“Very cool!” ~ Lisa W.
“interesting!” ~ Eric N.
“A+++++++++” ~ Lynn G.
“nice work!” ~ Paul P.

Here are some photos from the Pre-Nuit Reception at Scotiabank.

Photo by Taha Muharuma

Photo by Andrew Lam

Big thanks to Scotiabank and kbs+ for hiring me to perform at this wonderful festival. Thank you Galant, Toni, Mary and the great team who made everything run so smoothly and were so hospitable to me! I love Toronto!

Visit these links (below) to see more photos and images relating to my performance at Nuit Blanche:
Corel Painter on Facebook
Best of Toronto promo
BK on the Scene

Posted on September 5, 2014May 21, 2022
Frankie Manning

Frankie Manning, Ambassador of Lindy Hop, 2009

I created this collage portrait of Frankie Manning, Ambassador of Lindy Hop, as a tribute to him after he passed away at 94 years old, just short of his 95th birthday. 200 Lindy Hoppers from all over the world gathered in new York City to celebrate his life and I displayed this portrait there. I added ten feet of blank canvas and it was soon filled with messages. I took the portrait around the world and to the recent Frankie centennial celebrations. It now has almost twenty fee of extra canvas filled with moving messages from dancers from all over the world, a testament to how much impact Frankie had on literally tens of thousands of dancers.

To learn more about Frankie I recommend reading his book Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop and also viewing these wonderful video documentaries:
“Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Swing”, produced by Swing Bud Films;
“Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging”, produced and directed by Julie Cohen.
If you want to learn Lindy Hop you can’t go wrong watching the master himself teaching the basics:
“Swing- Lindy Hop Dance Lessons – Level 1”, featuring Frankie Manning and Erin Stephens.

Please also visit my portraits of other Lindy Hop legends: Chazz, Dawn, and Norma,plus my Happy Feet, Happy Paint performance video.

Posted on September 5, 2014April 18, 2018
Frankie Centennial Dance Jam

Frankie Manning Centennial Savoy Ball Dance Jam, 2014
38″ x 19″, pigment ink print and acrylic on canvas

This collage is based on imagery I captured during the Frankie Centennial celebrations in New York City which celebrated the 100th birthday of my original Lindy Hop dance teacher, Frankie Manning. To learn more about Frankie I recommend viewing the wonderful video documentary Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging, produced and directed by Julie Cohen. The two dancers featured in the center of this artwork are professional dancers, teachers and performers Evita Arce and Paolo Pasta Lanna. The moment captured and portrayed in this artwork was during a dance ‘jam’ at the event titled Frankie’s Centennial Savoy Ball at the beautiful Edison Ballroom. This event was produced by Alan Sugarman, completely independently from, and not to be confused with, the Frankie Manning Centennial & World Lindy Hop Day events, from which some of the other source imagery in my collage comes from.

I started this artwork during my Painter Live! presentation in London and continued working on it for a further few weeks.

If you’re interested to see other related artworks, please visit my portraits of Frankie, Chazz, Dawn and Norma, plus my Happy Feet, Happy Paint performance video.

Posted on September 5, 2014April 18, 2018
Ishmeet

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 below to see stroke by stroke build up of the painting.

My subject, Ishmeet, was a passenger who happened to be sitting next to me on the journey. I don’t think he quite knew what he was letting himself into when I asked if I could draw his portrait… he ended up sitting still for almost 45 minutes! I love using Sketch Club on the iPad. It’s a great app for sketching and provides you with the opportunity to record and replay the painting and export it with music as an mp4 file (see the replay movie at top of this page).

If you’re interested to learn how to use Sketch Club and sketch on the iPad then please join my next Paint on the Go! one day workshop here in my studio in San Francisco. To see more examples of my mobile digital art please visit my Mobile Digital Art page.

Brandon, Masha and Arthur, 2014

After I finished the portrait of Ishmeet the gentleman sitting behind us, artist Brandon Jones, showed me his Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid on which he was using the app ArtFlow to sketch with. We swopped tools and he painted me on my iPad while I painted him on his Wacom CC Hybrid in a “draw off”! Neither of us had used the other’s platform or app before so it was very fun! This is my sketch of Brandon and his family.

Posted on September 5, 2014April 18, 2018
Chazz

“Chazz”, 2014, pigment ink and acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″

This is a portrait of dancer, performer and teacher Chazz Young. It features him leading the Shim Sham at Frankie 95, a celebration of his dad, Frankie Manning, legendary pioneer and Ambassador of Lindy Hop dancing whose Centennial (Frankie 100) was celebrated around the world on Monday, May 26th, 2014.

BREAKING NEWS: Chazz is recovering from a stroke and needs our help. Please visit this Chazz Young Back in Step crowdfunding page aimed to help with his medical-related expenses.

In the upper portion of the portrait you can see three views of Frankie and Chazz performing together to “It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)” by Jimmy Lunceford. To learn more about Frankie and Chazz I recommend viewing the wonderful video documentary “Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging”, produced and directed by Julie Cohen.

This painting was created using Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet on a Macintosh computer. I started by experimenting with all the new brushes included in the Extra Extras set here on PaintboxTV (see the close up details of the brush strokes shown below). I ended up with one of my new favorite brushes, David Gell‘s Eliron from his Inkspiration brushes, which reminds me of the looseness of painting with twig and ink.

Other portraits in this series of Lindy Hop legends include Frankie, Dawn and Norma. These paintings were displayed during the Frankie Manning Centennial celebration in New York City, May 26, 2014.

After Frankie 100 I sent Chazz his portrait which he framed and hung in his house. He then sent me the nicest thank you note (see below). His heart felt expression of how much this painting means to him is the greatest gift I can get for creating art. Thank you Chazz for inspiring this painting and being such a wonderful, warm, appreciative portrait subject as well as amazing dancer, teacher and performer!

Below is a video of Chazz dancing to Shiny Stockings, one of his Dad’s favorite tunes, at the Swinging at the Savoy dance weekend in Oakland, California, on February 27th, 2016. I love the way he improvises and flows with the music…

Posted on August 25, 2014November 21, 2015
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 Brandon Jones and his family was created from life on a plane journey from London to San Francisco using Brandon’s Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid with the ArtFlow app. It was a “draw off”: he painted me at the same time using my iPad with Sketch Club. Neither of us had used the other’s platform or app before so it was very fun!

“Folly Bridge, Oxford” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“Portrait of Paul”, 2013, created using Art Rage and Adonit Jot Touch stylus on iPad2 at the ideacity conference, Toronto

On this page I share a small sampling of my (mostly) iPad drawings and paintings I have made over the last couple of years. I performed live iPad painting at the De Young Museum in October 2013 for the opening of “David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition” (see my Inspired by Hockney page). I teach iPad painting workshops and classes. If you’re interested in learning how to draw and paint on your iPad, then please visit Paint on the Go! and The iPad Art Summer School. If you’d like to set up a portrait sitting please email me (jeremy@jeremysutton.com) or call me at (415) 641-1221.

“Still Life Study”, 2013, created using Art Rage and Adonit Jot Touch stylus on iPad2
“Mac at Cana”, 2014, created using Zen Brush and Adonit Jot Touch 4 stylus on iPad Air
“Alison Wright”, 2014, created using Sketch Club and Adonit Jot Touch 4 stylus on iPad Air

The portrait of Alison, shown above, is one of a series of portraits I drew from life on my iPad of fellow presenters at FOTOfusion 2014 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Alison is an amazing photo journalistic photographer who has captured portraits of people all over the world, including an extensive series of portraits of Tibetan Buddhists in Tibet and in exile (see her book Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit). The following three portraits (below) were also created at FOTOfusion of fellow presenters.

“Lou Jones”, 2014, created using Sketch Club and Adonit Jot Touch 4 stylus on iPad Air

As I drew Lou’s portrait we discussed his six year project in which he and his team photographed and interviewed death row inmates across the country (see his book Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row). It was an intense subject and that intensity was reflected in the portrait…

“Lawrence Gartel”, 2014, created using Art Rage and Sketch Club and Adonit Jot Touch 4 stylus on iPad Air

I’ve known Lawrence, a pioneering digital media artist, for many years. This year at FOTOfusion he drove up in one of his Art Cars. I included a photo I took of his artwork on the car in the background of this portrait.

“J. Tomas Lopez”, 2014, created using Sketch Club and Adonit Jot Touch 4 stylus on iPad Air

Tom, University of Miami Department of Art and Art History professor, sat for me for a few minutes at the FOTOfusion Awards Dinner between courses..

iPad painting performance at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, at the opening of the David Hockney: Bigger Exhibition. Photo by Stephen Somerstein.

Portrait of Sarah created live during my iPad painting performance at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, at the opening of the David Hockney: Bigger Exhibition. I used Brushes app (favored by Hockney) and an Adonit Jot Touch stylus.

Portrait of Meg created live during my iPad painting performance at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, at the opening of the David Hockney: Bigger Exhibition. I used Brushes app and an Adonit Jot Touch stylus.

Portrait of Lisa and Frank (with self-portrait) created live during my iPad painting performance at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, at the opening of the David Hockney: Bigger Exhibition using Art Rage App app and both the Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus and the Adonit Jot Touch stylus.

iPad sketch of author and historian Lawrence Weschler giving a talk, “Love Life: David Hockney’s Timescapes”, at the de Young, being watched by filmmaker Bruno Wollheim, who created the documentary portrait “David Hockney: A Bigger Picture”, created with the Brushes app and an Adonit Jot Touch stylus.

Over the last two years I have taught iPad painting and given iPad painting presentations in North America and Europe, including at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, (see William Dutton’s blog post) and at the magnificent flagship Apple Stores in central London (Regent Street), and San Francisco.

“Portrait of Tony”, 2013, created using Sketch Club with Adonit Jot Touch on iPad (created on Southwest flight at 30,000′ altitude). I like the recording feature in Sketch Club that also allows you to easily add your choice of music to the replay.

“Life Study”, 2013, created using Sketch Club with Sensu Brush on iPad2.

“Seated Man, after Diebenkorn”, 2013, created using Art Rage and Adonit Jot Touch stylus on iPad2 at the de Young Museum

Caricaturist Jon Casey and I sketch each other at the Coffee Bar outside my studio in San Francisco, Jon using pencil on paper and me using the procreate app on an iPad with a Sensu brush (see What’s in my studio). For a summary of the different iPad painting apps I am exploring, click here.

“Sketch portrait of Jon Casey”, 2013, creating using procreate on iPad2

In March, 2010, I came across artist Roderick Smith sketching on his iPhone in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, using a PogoStick stylus and Brushes iPhone app, the same one David Hockney started with when he began sketching on his iPhone. He kindly let me have a go. When I got home I ordered a PogoStick and experimented with sketching in Brushes and Sketchbook Pro on the iPhone. It didn’t quite click for me. The iPhone screen felt too small and restricted, and the brush stroke styles too flat and uniform. I preferred sketching in my regular sketchpad.

The iPad introduced a significantly larger painting area. That summer in 2010 I sketched my first iPad portrait from life of one of my students at my Amsterdam Painter Workshop on his iPad (see iPad Sketching in Amsterdam). A year a half later, in January 2012, I went to see David Hockney’s Bigger Picture exhibition at the Royal Academy and was impressed with his display of huge prints of his iPad drawings, as he referred to them, in the spacious galleries of the historic and esteemed institution. For me that was the ahaa moment when i knew iPad art had arrived! On returning to San Francisco, I immediately bought a Nomad brush at Macworld and purchased all the cool iPad painting apps I saw they had on their demo stations, even before I’d purchased an iPad! I then got painting on the iPad in earnest, leading to my teaching iPad art workshops and performing live iPad painting at special events, including the Hockney show.

Lyana sitting for her portrait at an event organized by the Monaco Government Tourist Office. Notice that her name is in the structure of the brush strokes used to portray her. The next two portraits (below) were created at the same event. All portrait subjects received both a JPEG image of their portrait plus a video replay of the painting process of their portraits so they could watch it unfold brush stroke by brush stroke!

“Kyle” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“Shambhavi” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“In Thought” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“Simon Playing Double Bass” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“Tuyen Playing Piano” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

“Key West Patio” – painted from life on an iPad Air using the Sketch Club app and Adonit Jot Touch stylus, 2014

Rosa, created in Inspire Pro on the iPad, 2013

Posted on June 3, 2014March 25, 2025
Rick and His Buick Beauty

Rick and His Buick Beauty
2007
Mixed media on canvas, 20″ x 24″

This portrait of Rick and newly detailed and renovated 1936 Buick convertible was taken outside his Art Deco Oakland home on the shores of Lake Merritt. The painting features the Buick 8 logo he designed and the special red and yellow hub cub trimming he added. Also featured are depictions of him and his lovely wife Laurie, and him playing with his band The Martini Brothers at the historic Lake Merritt Hotel.

Me, Laurie and Rick with his Buick and the painting at the Hillsborough Concourse d’Elegance.

Posted on June 3, 2014March 25, 2025
Moment in Time

Moment in Time
2004
Pigment ink and acrylic on canvas, 38″ x 47″

This painting is based on a photo I took of my good friends and professional Tango dancers, performers and instructors Christy Coté and Darren Lees, performing at Peña Pachamama restaurant in San Francisco to the live music of Trio Garufa.

Christy and Darren dancing in front of the painting at the Move to the Groove Art Show: Celebration of Art, Music & Motion, part of ArtSFest, San Francisco, 2005.

Christy and Darren dancing in front of the painting at an exhibit at the Art Explosion, San Francisco, 2005.

rtSFest’s Spectra Ball guests take a gander at “A Moment in Time.” The Spectra Ball was held at the historic Old Mint in San Francisco on Saturday, April 9th, 2005. Chronicle photo by Christina Koci Hernandez

Moment in Time featured on the cover of the East Bay Monthly, February 2010.

* To purchase the original painting please either call 415-641-1221 or email jeremy@jeremysutton.com. Prices may be subject to change.

Posted on May 29, 2014April 18, 2018
Andrius

Andrius
2012
Mixed media on canvas, 24″ x 20″

This portrait was created by hand in a single sitting from direct observation. The paint media used was digital paint which was then printed onto canvas and acrylic gel and paint was applied. Thanks, Andrius, for being such a great portrait subject!

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