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“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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LIVE PAINTING PERFORMANCES WITH THE TOMMY IGOE JAZZ CONSPIRACY AT YOSHI’S, OAKLAND, ON 8/23/16 & 12/20/16

Sonic zoo / visual zoo!! ~ Tommy Igoe

Wow!! What amazing evenings! Both Jazz, Art and Prince performances were unique combined sonic/visual experiences! I worked on glass, paper and canvas with pixels, pastels and paint — drawing and painting live to Tommy’s music – the first-of-it’s-kind mixing live iPad painting with live drawing on paper and live painting on canvas, all inspired by, and painted to, live music in concert. A silent auction of the artwork created during each performance immediately followed the shows (while paint was still wet!!) On December 20th, 2016, special guest Tony Lindsay joined in on vocals. The joint was rockin’! Thanks to everyone who came along.
Click here for the web page version of the 12/20/16 show Press Release.
Click here to download a PDF of the 12/20/16 show Press Release.

The video at the top of this page gives a taste of my performance on December 20th, 2016, and includes the live iPad painting replay of the digital painting. See the brush strokes unfold as I created the iPad painting alongside painting on canvas and paper with traditional media. This was a multiple-media live art performance: from canvas and paper to glass and pixels! (videography: Peggy G, stills: Laura Wuest and Peggy G)

12/20/16 show photo montage. Photos by Laura Wuest and Peggy G.

Canvas prints (approximately 9″ x 7″) of the iPad painting, shown below with and without matte, are available for $250 each (including frame and excluding tax and shipping). Please email me if you would like to purchase one.

Here (below) are some photos by Crystal Nadeau (goodbrain.com) taken during and after the 12/20/2016 show. To see more of Crystal’s fabulous photos from the December 20th show click here.

This video shares clips from my LIVE PAINTING performance on August 23rd, 2016, also with the The Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy’s in Yoshi’s. Tommy premiered three new arrangements of iconic Prince songs. Here (below) are photos and artworks from the August performance:

Jazz, Art and Prince, Acrylic ink, paint and marker, and oil stick on canvas (48″ x 48″).

Replay video showing the live iPad painting that I created over the course of the evening.

The live iPad painting Saxophone – Live at Yoshi’s. A 30″ x 22″ one of a kind canvas print was purchased at the event during the silent auction. 7″ x 9″ 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.

The Purple Rain Prince portrait, acrylic ink and marker, and oil stick on paper (22″ x 30″)

Jeanne playing trombone, acrylic ink and oil stick on paper (20″ x 26″)

Bass trombonist, oil stick, acrylic ink and charcoal on paper (22″ x 30″)

Here are some other photos from the evening:

This video show’s the development of my portrait of band leader and drummer Tommy Igoe in action! It was created (prior to the event) on ‪an iPad Pro‬ ‪with an Apple Pencil‬ using apps Sketch Club‬ ‪and ArtRage. The video soundtrack is Mercy Mercy played by The Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy.

About Tommy Igoe
Tommy Igoe is a world-class musician living in San Francisco. He is President of Deep Rhythm Music, his recording studio, publishing arm and record label, and is one of the finest drummers in the world. He has had a long career as an in-demand studio and touring drummer, as well as an acclaimed bandleader. Born to a very musical family, his father, Sonny Igoe, had been making a name for himself as an educator and drummer since the early be-bop era, playing with guys like Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. Tommy began drumming at the age of 2, started classical piano at 10 and has gone on to craft a unique and diverse career rooted in performance and education, traveling the world with top-shelf Pop and Jazz artists as well as with his own band, while simultaneously conducting clinics and masterclasses at the world’s most prestigious institutions of musical education. He is the top-selling author in his field with four #1 titles on Amazon.com. In 1997, Tommy wrote the drum set book for Disney’s epic Broadway production of the “The Lion King” where he served as principal drummer and conductor. He has played drums on three Grammy award winning recordings and was voted the World’s #1 Jazz Drummer in the 2014 Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll. He has created two ongoing weekly musical residency at iconic Jazz clubs in New York and San Francisco. His New York band, The Birdland Big Band, is the most popular weekly music event in the city for the last 9 years. His most recent and exciting project is the Tommy Igoe Groove Conspiracy, a 15-piece supergroup from the San Francisco that has quickly become an integral part of the San Francisco cultural landscape.

About Yoshi’s
Yoshi’s began in 1972 as a small, North Berkeley sushi bar owned by founder and namesake, Yoshie Akiba, alongside her two best friends Kaz Kajimura, a journalist and carpenter, and Hiroyuki Hori, a painter and Japanese cook. Over the next 40 years, Yoshi’s built itself into one of the world’s most respected jazz venues, earning a reputation as the Bay Area’s premier location for great Japanese cuisine and jazz music. Today, Yoshi’s is an award-winning 310-seat live performance venue with a state-of-the-art sound system and design.

Location: Yoshi’s Oakland | 510 Embarcadero West | Jack London Square | Oakland, CA 94607

Tommy and I – photo by Sarah L (8//23/2016)

Sticks and brushes – photos by Laura Wuest (12/20/2016)

Thank you, Tommy, for inviting me to be a second “zoo”, the visual one inspired by your sonic one, in a very fun and creative experience!

Thank you Erin for taking the Facebook Live video, a little of which I used in the video at the top of this page. Thank you Peggy, Sarah and Simone for being an amazing assistants and Peggy, Sarah, Laura and Crystal for being such great documentors. Thank you the wonderful team at Yoshi’s and thank you Kari for making it all happen.

My hands, captured after the show on 12/20/2016 by Laura Wuest

Welcome to the Cabaret! The portraits shown on this page were all created during a “Cabaret Night” themed company Holiday Party in a historical building in San Francisco. My tools were an iPad Pro 12.9″, Apple Pencil and Procreate app. At this event I was a “roving artist”, interacting and sketching guests throughout the evening in different locations within the venue. Each portrait subject received a JPEG file of their portrait plus an MP4 video file of the replay of their portrait from start to finish, as you see examples of below. The theme conjured up visions of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sketching at the Moulin Rouge! I created a custom portrait background (and dressed) with that in mind.

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

Brunelleschi Dome, Duomo, Florence, 1420 – 1436, as seen from the Biblioteca Delle Oblate Cafe

8″ x 8″ Caran D’Ache Neocolor II water soluble pastel, ink and pencil on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

On this page I share a sampling of the sketches created in a variety of media, both traditional and digital, while in Sicily and Florence. Every sketch is drawn directly from life, en plein air.
~ Jeremy

Duomo dome seen from rooftop, Florence

8″ x 8″ Copic sketch marker on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

Michelangelo’s Polyhedron, Medici Crypt, Florence

8″ x 8″ pencil on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

after Titian, Florence

8″ x 8″ graphite on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

Leaning sculpture in hotel lobby, Florence

8″ x 8″ pencil on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

Mandarins, Florence

8″ x 8″ Caran D’Ache Neocolor II water soluble pastel on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

Osteria Santa Spirito, Florence

8″ x 8″ pencil on cold press acid free 140 lb watercolor paper

Castello Maniace, Ortigia, Sicily

iPad Pro 12.9″, Apple Pencil, Procreate

Caffe Minerva, Ortigia, Sicily

iPad Pro 12.9″, Apple Pencil, Procreate

Drawing of the owner of Hotel Maniace, Ortigia, Sicily

pencil on paper

Video replay of the entire creative process.

I created this iPad drawing at the Abstract Expressionism show in the Royal Academy, London, based on observation of the painting “Male and Female” by Jackson Pollock (c 1942 – 43). I used an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the app Procreate. (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.) This Pollock, whose permanent home is the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reminded me of Pablo Picasso’s The ThreeDancers and Three Musicians. When I saw the painting that inspired this sketch, it kept drawing me back to look at it closer. The show is well worth visiting if you are in London (along with the Picasso Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery). It mixes key pioneer abstract expressionists with fab David Smith sculptures.

iPad Sketch after Jackson Pollock’s Male and Female

The original Jackson Pollock painting Male and Female

Sketching on my iPad in front of Jackson Pollock’s Male and Female

Live painting the scene at a Havana Night themed opening party at a conference in the Boca Raton Resort & Club, Florida. The first half shows you the actual scene at the party, and the second shows the stroke by stroke replay of the creative process, showing how the painting evolved over four hours, compressed into one minute!

The final artwork created live during the evening using an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Procreate app.

Here are photos from the event:

In this dawn pano shot you can see the pink Spanish themed building of the resort on the right. The main building was built in Spanish style 90 years ago, in 1926, by local entrepreneur and architect Addison Mizner. He had great plans for the area, including a Venetianesque canal complete with gondolas! He built this resort before running out of money and the canal never got built.

Photo credit for event stills: Dave Merrell

Thanks to AOO Events and Ciena.

Portrait replays of two buildings

278 University Avenue, Palo Alto
28″ x 16″ acrylic on canvas

64 Willow Place, Menlo Park
28″ x 16″ acrylic on canvas

These two building portraits, of 278 University Avenue, Palo Alto, and of 64 Willow Place, Menlo Park, were created from direct painting on-site en plein air for the purpose of producing an artistic replay recording video that was shown as the buildings’ owner, Roxy Rapp, made remarks on accepting the Presidential Citation Award at the American Institute of Architects Santa Clara Valley Chapter 2016 Design Awards Gala in the San Jose Marriott on October 13th, 2016. By coincidence the location of the Gala was also where my artwork series, The Story of Silicon Valley, is permanently installed.

The building portraits were painted directly on an iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil the app Procreate.

Roxy accepting his award.

Roxy sitting for his Touchjet Pond portrait by Jeremy at the mobile Digital Art & Creativity Summit in Palo Alto on August 12, 2016.

World’s first 40′ wide virtual Touchjet POND mural painted live on museum wall in 2.5 hours!

On Friday, October 7th, 2016, at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, myself and fellow artist Peggy Gyulai used multiple Touchjet POND projectors and the art app ArtRage to paint a forty foot wide virtual mural from scratch across the breadth of the Wilsey Court main wall (formerly home to the monumental Gerhard Richter “Strontium” painting). Our virtual mural, titled From Monument Valley to Silicon Valley, was inspired by the exhibition Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, which was showing for it’s last weekend at the time of this performance.

The POND projectors are innovative cutting-edge Wifi enabled Android projectors that projects onto any surface and turn it into an interactive wall. This projected digital paint interactive technology was generously provided by Touchjet. We used Infra Red emitting styluses to communicate with the projector as we painted on the wall. The only condition imposed by this technology is not shadowing the stylus as you paint, which you get used to after a while. We started with a 40′ wide by 4′ high blank canvas and I worked from the left (Silicon Valley end of the mural) and Peggy from the right (Monument Valley end of the mural).

This live performance event was part of the de Young Museum’s on-going Friday Nights public program – free Friday night cultural events open to all. Visitors were able to experience first hand painting with the Touchjet POND projector and the ArtRage app in the Piazzoni Murals Room while Peggy and I painted in the Wilsey Court. The Touchjet POND is great technology not only for art performance, as in this case, but also anytime you want to have a more interactive meeting and for classroom situations.

Big thanks to Renee Baldocchi and the De Young Team, to Catherine Woo and the Touchjet Team and to Uwe Maurer and the ArtRage Team! The version of the song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 featured in the video at the top of this page is by Natalie Cole from her 1991 album Unforgettable.