Commission Me

 

SUBJECT & STYLE 
Whether it's a portrait, still life, figurative, floral, or abstract, I am up for the challenge of creating a painting for you. Thank you for your interest. I'm assuming that your interest reflects your attraction to the style of my work, which is loose and expressive. Sometimes I call my style representational abstract. I also call it whimsical angst. My style is NOT hyper realism so if you want a painting to be an exact replica of an image, I'm not your artist. 

Please email me two images of the subject you have in mind and allow me to pick one from the two. Please do not email me any image that you do not want me to select. Images with high contrast (lots of light and shadow) are the best.

*PRICING* for ART 
Along with the images of your desired subject, a non-refundable $100 deposit Venmo is usually how we can start the process. The balance of the the work can be rendered after delivery of the work priced as follows for smaller (up to 8x10 inches); middler (up to 11x14 inches); larger (up to 30x30 inches):

• Smaller acrylic: $200 

• Middler acrylic: $240

• Larger acrylic: $400

NOTES: I've done commissions for much larger canvases and if that is your desire, we can discuss details. If you'd like the work to be done in oils or gouache, pricing will change slightly.

SHIPPING & MATERIALS
Shipping costs will be calculated and I will let you know how much that will be and ask you to add it to your final payment before I ship it. Better yet, if you have a FedEx account, I can ship it using your account number. Material costs will also be calculated in for works larger than 18x24 inches. If you are able to pick up the work from my Santa Ana studio, that would also work.

*ASTERISK*
If after you see the final painting you do not love it, you do not have to buy it. I will accept the deposit as payment for the work and keep/sell/repurpose the art. With very few exceptions, I will not repaint portions of a final painting.

My Travel Teaching Program

 

Thank you for your interest in having me travel to your space to teach art. I am grateful to be able to enter my new life chapter where I can once again say YES to travel teaching. I consider every invitation an honor and am committed to organizing and executing each workshop experience with artistic depth, elegance, meaning, fun, and approachability for learners of all levels. Here are some questions and answers to questions related to my travel teaching program:

Q: What sort of art workshops do you teach?
A: The following seven categories of art are generally what I teach. 

• Expressive Acrylic Painting: 1 full day up to 3 full days
• Expressive Watercolors & Stitches: 1 half day up to 2 full days 
• Expressive Gouache Painting: 1 half day up to 1 full day
• Wire Sculpture: 1 half day up to 1 full day 
• Cardboard Art: 1 half day up to 1 full day
• Free Motion Art Stitching: 1 half day up to 1 full day
• Art Journaling & Creative Lettering: 1 half day up to 1 full day 
• 1 half day = 3 hours
• 1 full day = 6 hours + 1 hour for lunch

Within the above categories, I can tailor the workshop with an emphasis that you're interested in. For example, within painting, we could focus on portraits, or figurative art, or florals, portals, or still life,  etcetera. 

Q: Do you provide tools and materials?
A: No. With each workshop, I provide a list of materials that each student needs to bring to the workshop. Also, the hosting studio would need to equip the area with tables, chairs, and any other items that would help each student feel comfortable to create in.

Q: Can you teach art in a corporate team-building setting?
A: Yes. I have experience leading corporate team-building experiences through art. As long as your office can provide the space, and each participant is provided with materials for the workshop, it can happen. 

Q: What is your rate?
A: The hosting studio will be in charge of collecting payment (with any overhead markup for the studio) and then paying me per the following rates: 

• 1 half day: $50 per student per half day
• 1 full day: $100 per student per day
• 2 full days: $200 per student for 2 total days
• 3 full days: $300 per student for 3 total days

*Some classes will have a kit fee ranging from $10 to $40 per student which I can either collect from students on the day of the workshop or the studio can collect on my behalf and then transfer to me.

Q: Do you need support for travel expenses?
A: If your space is far enough where I need lodging, I would love it if you could host me in your home/facility so that neither you nor I have to budget for lodging. If there is not a host facility, I would appreciate support to offset lodging costs that I incur. If I travel to your space by air, I would need support to offset air travel and potentially ground transportation. 

Q: Do you have an enrollment minimum/maximum?
A: My minimum enrollment is six to eight students. I have no maximum.

Q: Can you help promote the workshop?
A: Yes! I think promotion is a team effort and I feel very comfortable using all of my social media platforms to creatively and effectively promote my workshops.

Q: I've taken your workshop. I want to paint with you in a private or semi-private setting. Is that possible?
A: Yes! If you are able to travel to my home studio in Santa Ana with a brown bag lunch, a private full day would be $200 per day. If you are able to bring another person or two for a semi-private, it would be $180 per day per person.

Q: I have a small group of people who want to go to your studio to paint. Is that possible?
A: At this time, my home studio can accommodate 4-5 people for a full-on painting workshop so yes. Each person would need to bring a brown bag lunch and for out-of-towners, you'd need to research and secure your lodging and ground transportation.

Q: I have a small group of people who I want to host either in my home or our community center for a celebration and I want them to paint. Would you be available for that?
A: Yep. This would be possible. Send me an email at jenny@crescendoh.com to iron out the details.

Q; Anything else?
A: I'm super open to communicating with you to discuss the specifics of what you're looking for and using our best ideas to make the workshop happen. Please feel free to email me at jenny@crescendoh.com to start the conversation. Please take a look at my expressive style of art at @jennydoh on Instagram and also at jennydoh.com. Loose and expressive is what I'm drawn to and what I teach. I am grateful for your interest.

Thank you.

Photos below are of some workshops I've taught in past years in
wonderful studios across the nation with extraordinary hosts and inspiring learners.

(San Diego, 2023)

(Seattle, 2017)

(Houston, 2017)

(Corporate team-building, Santa Ana, 2018)

(Bakersfield, 2016)

(Portland)

(Shreveport, 2019)

(Denver, 2018)

(Portland)

Bridge Across a Chasm

 

Who throws a party on a Tuesday? 

I guess I do, if you call what happened last Tuesday a party. It wasn't exactly that. It was more like a melding of love and life and music and art for three hours in my home with people from different pockets of my world. Some very familiar pockets and some newer ones that I'm getting to know. On a Tuesday. In the middle of summer. It felt like an art salon of vibrant vulnerability and joy.

My dear friend Dori had offered to come down from northern California and cook an Italian dinner for me and my friends as a gift. She had been unable to attend Gerardo's celebration and now, almost four months after that moment, I said hell yes to this unique bridge that she extended. 

I've been known to burrow myself into the hole of solitude like nobody else. I can hold my breath and stay there longer than anybody else. And within the last four months, I've realized that I don't want to do that. I could justify doing that by pointing out how flawed everything and everybody (especially me) is. And what would that give me? No friends. No love. No party. No art. No music. Nothing delicious. Not one thing.

We humans. We burn through life. 

I think I want to burn through it as artistically, creatively, and meaningfully as possible. Flaws and all. 

In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery