Let’s make a painting of your dreams! Together we will transform your stories and memories into a vibrant painting to last lifetimes. To get started, consider what size, color palette, timeline, and style would work best for you.
A custom piece of art is one of the greatest gifts you can give — to yourself or to another.
Have you ever looked at a painting, absolutely loved it but wished it was a different size, a different subject, or created in different tones?
Commissioning an artwork is an opportunity to become a part of the creative process. You’re able to project a dream, encapsulate a vision, or memorialize a memory. Personalized artwork has more meaning than anything you find in a gallery, shop, or estate sale. It is a touchstone and a source of pride. It is a keepsake and an heirloom that lasts forever.
Each Creature of this coral reef menagerie represents a member of the family. The customer and I created this vibrant coral reef scene 36” wide to celebrate their beloved’s day of birth. In these creatures, you can find their children, as well as some surprise outside supportive friends and family. This Painting is resin layered meaning it has a high gloss finish and becomes a three-dimensional painting with layers of pigment embedded into different layers.
Chase who crossed the rainbow bridge this year. 18” x 24” Painting on Lucite with Hardwood painted frame. Completed in 4 weeks.
After the first payment is made, we begin to share images. Send me imagery and colors that resonate with you based on the painting we are creating. What colors do you love? What imagery brings your heart ease? What memory do you find joy, strength, or comfort in? This stage of research lets me see more of your perspective.
Within 2-4 weeks, I will provide you with a draft sketch. For every commission, I offer two rounds of edits in order to get the sketch right. Once the sketch is approved, I will invoice you for the second payment (another ⅓).
Depending on the scope and size of the project, paintings take anywhere from 3-16 weeks. Periodically, I will send you snapshots of your evolving artwork. This is a collaborative experience, and I love for you to be a part of it! This also gives you the opportunity to see that the work is progressing as discussed.
Once the piece is completed and you are happy with the result, I will invoice you for the final payment and shipping cost. At this point, I will wrap and deliver your new painting, insured via UPS, to your home.
Payment Schedule:
Payments will be made in three installments through Venmo, check, or PayPal. The first payment is the deposit once we agree upon the size and imagery you are envisioning (⅓ the estimated cost), the second is made after the initial sketch is approved, and the final payment is due upon completion.
Past Work
LeAnn's Custom Home decor
LeAnn messaged me wanting to jump right in with having three paintings completed for her home. She thought about what size painting she wanted, and wanted a large luminous resin layered painting incorporating elements of several paintings I have completed in the past combined with imagery herself. She wanted clear blue water beneath only.
We created a third piece that headed to the themes of the sky and certain birds that remind LeAnn of home. She wanted to incorporate subtle radiant light into the background.
In the end, LeAnn came to the studio having just finished her defense of her thesis at Smith to pick up her painting.
Yi Lin's Floating Shimmering Shoal on Lucite
Yi Measured the size of the space for me and came to me with a size idea and budget she had in mind. I sent over some sketches for possible variations of paintings to fit over the space. She really wanted to go for something large and lovely at 40" x 96" on clear acrylic.
For her piece, I got all the required hanging materials and provided a guide for hanging. She had a professional install this piece in her home. The weight is distributed over 10 points on the wall with heavy wall anchors so that there is no wear & tear to her walls.
Rose's Wedding Party
Rose wanted her special wedding party on this beautiful beach immortalized in painted. We figured out a specific size and she sent over images and her initial deposit through PayPal. I sent over a sketch of the basic structure of the painting, and she made some suggestions. I listened to her suggestions then got to work. She then paid her second installment through an electronic invoice I sent over when we agreed we were on the same page.
In the Example of Rose's painting, she sent me several wedding group portraits and I composed a single painting from the images she sent for her first sketch.
Rose's painting measures 40" x 60" and was shipped on rolled canvas to a frame shop she specified for me. I got in touch with them to confirm the delivery and sent her painting in a mailing tube for them to frame.
Suzanne's Bliss
Suzanne reached out to me to help make a large painting for her home that recreated the sweet memory of an awakening she had as a young woman swimming alone in the clear blue waters of Lake Tahoe. We collaborated, me swapping sketch images to try and match her story of her vision until we came to the appropriate representation of her younger self feeling the freedom of her body in jeweled blues and ecstatic color. When her painting was complete, I rolled up the canvas and sent it to a frame shop near her town to have to stretched for its' new home.
It's possible for people to dream up big painting projects on canvas. Shipping canvas to a local frame shop is a far less expensive and safer option than shipping a large painting in a crate.