About the Artist

Jacki Yamin is a versatile artist who creates one-of-a-kind works in a variety of media. For example, she makes sculpted art dolls, some of which are realistic while others are more fanciful. As a photographer, she portrays nature, capturing birds in flight and other wildlife in their natural environment. She also paints, using oils, acrylics, watercolor, or pastels. Specializing in portraits, she favors realism, interpreting the world and its inhabitants. As a dancer and costume designer, she combined textures and colors that twirled and sparkled under stage lights. For her, art is always an experiment, ever-changing and evolving.

Portraits

People & Animals

Portraits have always been a favorite since childhood. The goal is not just to capture the image but to also capture the spirit of the person or animal. Jacki offers a variety of mediums and artistic styles to choose from when considering a commissioned piece. With each commissioned piece, once the medium is decided, she will send you a “sketch” for approval prior to moving forward, and will continue to check in until the artwork is ready for delivery.

Over the years, Jacki has captured the personalities of her former and current pets and family members in oil paintings. She has also been commissioned by others to memorialize loved pets and is available to capture your favorite pets or animals on canvas. Painting can be in oil, acrylic, watercolor or soft pastels. The website provides examples of her work to help making decisions.

Have one you’d like painted? Please use this site to contact her!

Oil Portraits

Pet/People Portraits: (prices based on medium and size )

Oil (on canvas unframed) 8x10 $395.00 11x14 $425 Larger - TBA

Acrylic Portraits

Acrylic (on canvas unframed) 8x10 $350.00 11x14 $375 Larger - TBA

Watercolor or Pastel Portraits

Watercolor Or Pastel* 8x10 $350.00 11x14 $375 Larger - TBA

Watercolor/pastel paintings are matted and placed in a plastic sleeve for protection. (based on paintings being a standard size)

*Pastel portraits can be done different ways. One way is with soft pastel pencils, the other is using pan pastels. Pan pastels provide a base for the image and then it is clarified with pastel pencils.

Artwork can be mailed (cost added to final payment) or delivered to an agreed upon local site.

Payment is made through PayPal, ½ when work is started, ½ when completed.

Personalized Vintage Watercolors

Our families, our history. It’s usually preserved in photographs and videos. These watercolor paintings bring those cherished photographs out of the albums and on to your walls. These watercolors are done without sharp edges, allowing colors to merge thus creating a softer texture and warmth.

Commissioned work starts at $250.00 for an 8 x 10

Paintings

One-of-a-Kind Dolls

The Dolls

The development of each doll is the result of skills learned over a lifetime. Each piece reflects her artistic skills and imagination. They combine formal training in art as well as a knowledge and love of world cultures developed through study and enhanced by travel.

Each doll has its own personality and energy. Each is unique, sculpted from Super Sculpey and hand painted with acrylics and with a costume that is influenced by Jacki’s years as an international folkloric dancer. Her love of "all that sparkles" is reflected in many of the doll’s costumes.

In creating each doll, Jacki may start with a general idea or she may allow the clay to dictate the character. Each stage of the doll's creation is fluid, always changing as it is created. The structures of the dolls vary. Some are full-bodied with internal wire structures; others are soft-bodied. In other instances, the doll may only have an upper body structure with a flowing gown to create the illusion of a full body.

Jacki's dolls have appeared in Washington’s Zenith Gallery Humor Show and its "Time Out For a Laugh" Humor Show. She has exhibited in the Artomatic show in Washington, D.C., and several shows at the Art League of Ocean City, MD. Her dolls have also been sold in many fine craft shops in Maryland and West Virginia. Jacki has also been commissioned to create dolls that caricature a business’s partners as a gift for an important anniversary and ethnic dolls (in full cultural costuming) to commemorate family celebrations and cultural events.

Have one you'd like created? Yes, she can also create dolls to your specifications upon request.