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Jun, Jeremy Sutton, 2017, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate

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Parallel Play SF is a “fresh vision for collaborative, live music and art experiences” founded by artist Peggy Gyulai and violist Deanna Badizadegan. This performance was co-produced with TheGlint.com and included Peggy drawing on paper and painting on canvas, me drawing on paper (ink washes and oil stick) and on the iPad Pro 12.9″ (with Apple pencil and Procreate app). Deanna played viola, Karsten Windt played violin, and Angela Lee played cello. The music played was “String Trio” by Juan Cras followed by “Slow Cycles” by Danny Clay (world premier).

Thank you for an emotionally moving performance.
T.F. – audience member

Many thanks for so publicly sharing your art with us (and in real time no less!)
S.C. – audience member

Jeremy and Peggy, it was such a pleasure to work with you both, what a great project!
K.W. – musician

watercolor wash and oil stick on Arches cold press paper, 40″ x 26″, by Jeremy Sutton – created during the Juan Cras portion of the performance

iPad pro 12.9″, Apple Pencil, Procreate, by Jeremy Sutton – created during the Danny Clay portion of the performance

Peggy showing her painting to Dianna after working on it during the Danny Clay “Slow Cycles” performance

If you are interested in purchasing either of the artworks I created during this performance, here are the prices and options:
Traditional media ink wash and oil stick on Arches cold press paper, 40″ x 26″, $1,200 unframed
Pigment inkjet prints on canvas of the digital iPad painting, each individually printed in the artist’s studio and hand signed, stretched with gallery wrap, unframed, are available at these approximate dimensions:
24″ x 16″ $250
30″ x 20″ $500
40″ x 30″ $900
Other sizes available on request. To arrange a purchase please email Jeremy at jeremy@jeremysutton.com.

George P. Shultz

12″ x 9″ pen on paper, title page of Shultz’s book “learning from EXPERIENCE”, signed by author

This sketch was created at a wonderful talk George Shultz gave at the Commonwealth Club of California on February 21st, 2017, in San Francisco. The event was sold out so I sat outside the theater and watch it on live YoutUbe feed. As I watched I sketched his portrait in the front of the book, which he subsequently signed for me. I highly recommend the book! (And also all Commonwealth Club talks!)

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: