Jimmy at Zach's "Shag-Mitzvah"R.J. DUFFEY is available to do custom sketches on site for your next event, convention, party, bar mitzvah, wedding, birthday celebration, trade show, fundraiser or special event. Duffey's 25 years of experience make for special events - a caricature sketch is a memento that your guests and clients will treasure always. Your friends and family will look at their sketch, and always remember your special event. Clients bring their sketches back to their homes and offices, where your company logo or name will be prominently displayed for years to come.

DUFFEY also is available to draw a custom caricature or more traditional sketches of your loved one or an entire family portrait suitable for framing. These custom quick portraits cane be executed by DUFFEY from photographs, and can include special themes or whimsical scenes. These custom works make great gifts, especially for family reunions, anniversaries, retirement gifts and landmark occasions in family life. For children's parties and bar/bat mitzvahs, these caricature sketches make great party favors for the children and are inexpensive compared to other, less permanent, party gifts.

An event that includes DUFFEY's sketches always has a "touch of class" - the guests (from 2 to 92) never fail to be entertained while watching the artist in action.

DUFFEY can create a custom paper to your event for a minimal fee of $50. He calls these custom papers "templates" which can be tied to the theme of the party or can show corporate logos, the date, and the special occasion of your event.

DUFFEY has been featured at the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, Florida, and his sketches have received acclaim with the social set as part of the entertainment at the 1995 and 1997 Young Friends of the Red Cross in Palm Beach, Florida, as well as other social events throughout Florida.

DUFFEY can sketch quickly - 12 to 15 faces in one hour in black & white or 10 to 12 faces in one hour in color. For larger events, DUFFEY can arrange for additional artists to work with him.

 

PRICES for "ON SITE" Events

One Single Hour

$100 Black and White

$125 Color
Two Hours or more

Black and White: $100 per hour

Color: $125 per hour
   
Events calling for more than four hours will receive a 10 (10%) discount.
  

 

 

Prices for custom sketches from sittings or photographs generally start at $250 per sketch, but for specifics, please contact the artist.

 

Fund Raising: Various schools and charities have used DUFFEY's services as a caricature artist to benefit their fundraising efforts.

The premise is simple - DUFFEY draws the sketches at the event and receives his compensation from the event sponsor. Guests are asked to contribute a set amount or a suggested donation fir their sketch. It never fails - guests are so pleased that often a suggested donation of $20 is enhanced by $5 to $20 more - adding revenue for the fundraising group. Schools have "presold" DUFFEY's caricatures of their students and then DUFFEY goes to the school site to sketch the children on the appointed day(s) - similar to "picture day". Parents are so thrilled that requests come in after the sketch day from parents who want their child's portrait done from a photograph.

By paying DUFFEY $100 to $125 per hour, a charity or school can realize a profit of $100 to $150 per hour of work by DUFFEY - that is AFTER the bill for DUFFEY's services are paid. The end result is a unique and timeless work of art -- the charitable organization's logo can be placed in advance on all of the papers used by DUFFEY, which creates a lasting testimony to your organization for years to come.

 

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