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Go Figure

by Jeremy Sutton
30 inches x 42 inches
Ink, crayon and oil stick on Arches Aquarelle heavy weight acid-free fine art 550 lb (640 gsm) watercolor paper
Created live at the Parallel Play SF, San Francisco, July 23rd, 2016
Available for sale $1,200 unframed – call 415-626-3971 to purchase.

This video gives you a taste of the experience watching the drawings being created by Peggy and I as Deanna and James played.

The next Parallel Play, BEETHOVEN’S ELECTRIC LIGHTS, is Saturday, September 17th, 7:30 PM – 10 PM, $20.
Click here to purchase tickets.

Here is the original description of the “Go Figure” event from the Parallel Play SF Facebook page:

PARALLEL PLAY PRESENTS “GO FIGURE: A DIVERTIMENTO”

“Line,” “Shade” and “Texture” will be featured guests for Parallel Play’s July program, which explores the age old art of figure drawing in a new way. Artists Jeremy Sutton and Peggy Gyulai will draw, paint and scribble “figures” while interpreting a rich musical program performed by James Jaffe (cello) and Deanna Badizadegan (viola). See the parallels form between music and art as these two duos perform together.

Parallel Play events fuse live music and art in boundary-busting performance formats, and take place in a beautiful penthouse studio in the heart of San Francisco. Guests become part of the experience as they enjoy good wine and great company.

PROGRAM

1. LINE // Piston Duo for viola & cello
2. LIGHT & SHADE // Hindemith Duetto for viola & cello
~~ BREAK ~~
3. TEXTURE // Mozart Duet KV423 arranged for viola & cello

Stephanie and Todd’s Wedding Rehearsal Dinner

September 2nd, 2016, Meadowood Napa Valley
48″ x 36″, live painting, oil stick and acrylic ink and paint on canvas

This was created live at Stephanie and Todd’s wedding rehearsal dinner in the beautiful Meadowood Napa Valley resort.

Congratulations, Stephanie and Todd!

In the iPad Figure Drawing Class I taught at the mobile Digital Art & Creativity (mDAC) Summit in the Palo Alto Art Center on Sunday, August 14th, 2016, we drew from the model and explored movement, shape, line and tone, starting with short and moving poses and ending with longer poses. We used the app Procreate.

Drawing Roxy using the Touchjet POND and the ArtRage app on canvas. This was part of a demo on the opening night of the mDAC 2016 Summit.

On the technical side, by the end of this class participants knew how to:
1. Navigate around the Procreate interface and move between the gallery and drawing views;
2. Import an interesting backgrounds to draw over;
3. Choose, adjust and customize brushes and brush looks;
4. Pick and fine tune color using the color wheel and value/saturation circle;
5. Work on multiple layers; and
6. Playback, save and share your entire creative process as a replay video.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this class; to Sumit and Caroline for inviting me to teach at their great Summit; to Savage Interactive, the creators and publishers of Procreate, for their generous sponsorship of my class; to ArtRage for the use of their app with my Touchjet POND demo; to the Palo Alto Art Center who went out of their way to help accommodate all my needs for running this class, and to Amber for being an inspirational model!

I painted portraits of guests at the California Academy of Sciences NightLife LIVE event in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on August 4th, 2016. Situated outside in the West Garden, I was one of the featured Artspan Artists highlighted at this event. It was a very fun evening and the guests enjoyed watching the portraits being created, as well as having their own portraits sketched!

Here are some photos and portrait video replays from the night:

Cate being drawn

Live iPad portrait painting replay video showing the development of my portrait of Cate

Annalyn and David with their print

Portrait replay of Annalyn and David’s portrait

Drawing Antoinette

Drawing Florence and Gabe (photo: Betty Bigas)

Portrait replay of Florence and Gabe’s portrait

Drawing Sheri

Drawing Amy

Portrait replay of Amy’s portrait

Photos are taken by Sarah Lamb unless otherwise credited. Thank you, Sarah, for your help at this event. Thank you. Artspan, for inviting me to participate.

Whitney and Kenny’s First Dance

July 30th, 2016, The Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco
30″ x 22″, live iPad painting, pigment inkjet print on canvas

This was created live as Whitney and Kenny danced their first dance. I used an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the app Procreate. I initially worked on the background using some reference photos I took on my iPad of the wedding couple practicing (including their favorite move!) Then I worked live as they danced and followed up with a few finishing flourishes of color! You can see the whole process in the replay video below, which includes as a sound track the song they chose for their First Dance: A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.

Congratulations, Whitney and Kenny!

David
2016, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Procreate

This was created one sunny afternoon in Sonoma at a friend’s home. David was visiting and we were all sitting down at a table. As he leaned on one hand in conversation with someone else I started sketching him on my iPad Pro, initially undetected! When he realized he was now the subject of a portrait he kindly held his position, including his hands, while I sketched away. The portrait sketch took about 30 minutes. You can see the process in the replay video below.

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Kimigayo in Los Angeles, 7-26-2016, 2016, pigment ink and acrylic on canvas, 40″ x 20″

This painting depicts a historic moment when the Japanese musician Atsushi, also known as Exile Atsushi, sang the Japanese national anthem, the Kimigayo (one of the world’s oldest and shortest national anthems) at the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball stadium on their annual Japan Night celebration, July 26, 2016. This was a particularly poignant moment given the history of WWII and the internment of Americans of Japanese descent on the West Coast.

Live iPad portrait painting at the ILEA Gala 2016, Armory, San Francisco

“Thank you again for your support of the ILEA Gala! The character drawings were huge hits and added significantly to the success of the event!” ~ Sean F.

On July 19th, 2016, I performed live iPad portrait painting at the International Live Events Association – Northern California Chapter (ILEA-NCC) Annual Gala in the Armory SF. The venue was transformed into an adventure experience where guests travelled from the heart of the rainforest to the mysteries of the universe. I was one of the entertainers at the event who helped bring this interstellar vision to life. You can get a taste of the magic of the digital portrait painting in the video above and the photos below.

Alex being drawn

Alex’s portrait

Joanna with her letter size portrait print

Joanna’s portrait

Drawing Jonathan

Lauren being drawn

Jonathan and Lauren with their 4×6 postcard portrait prints

Drawing Jill

Drawing Olivia

Annie looking at finished portrait

Drawing Gayle

Jeremy and Gayle with prints of her portrait

Portrait of Rolando

Susanne and Manny, my last portrait subjects of the evening!

Susanne and Manny’s quick sketch double portrait

Cable Car on Powell
2016, pigment ink and acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 40″

I was walking back across Union Square in San Francisco late one afternoon after visiting the brand new Apple Store Union Square on it’s opening day, when I turned around and looked up Powell Street. The light was beautiful, catching the sides of the buildings in the distance, the steep street undulating it’s way up to the horizon. As I stood there a cable car rumbled past, working it’s way up the hill. I had my iPad in my hand so I lifted it up and snapped a picture as the cable car whizzed by in front of me. That picture served as the inspiration for this painting.

To create the digital painting I used the new Corel Painter 2017 on an iMac with a Wacom Intuos Pro M pen tablet. I then printed it out on canvas and worked into the surface with acrylic gels and paints.

(2 minutes 30 seconds)

If you would like to learn the techniques and tools in Painter 2017, including the new Texture Painting and Dab Stencils, that I used to create this, then please join my subscription-based educational web resource PaintboxTV.com, and click on the Cable car on Powell video tutorial (you’ll need to be a PaintboxTV subscriber to view the video on this link). Also, if you’re interested in learning the techniques of painting with Corel Painter, you may be interested in joining my Corel painter Impressionism Workshop in San Francisco, July 25th to 28th, 2017, in San Francisco.

Parallel Play is a “fresh vision for collaborative, live music and art experiences” created by artist Peggy Gyulai and violist Deanna Badizadegan. It is a monthly event and the first Parallel Play, titled “Mostly Bach”, took place on June 18th, 2016. During the evening Deanna Badizadegan played viola, Ryan Lee played violin, Peggy painted in oils and drew on paper, and I drew on paper with a mix of media (acrylic ink, charcoal, crayon and oil stick). I also created a live iPad sketch of Deanna and Ryan practicing earlier in the day before the event.

In this video you see snippets of me creating the iPad sketch and then live drawing on paper during the actual performances. The audio includes excerpts from:
Handel Halvorsen Passacaglia
Bach Two Part Inventions (arr. Violin and Viola)
Bach Sonata for Solo Violin in A Minor, Andante
Bach Suite No. 6, Prelude and Allemande