Hi! I’m Jenni…

I grew up in Virginia. Being raised in a suburb of D.C., where politics takes precedence over art, caused me to work hard in school (so I could finish my classwork early then draw all over it.) In 6th grade I decided that every political figure in my history book needed braces and different hair. My teachers wrote that I was “highly social” and my “doodling was distracting” on report cards, but I had friends and got straight A’s, so therefore decided that being a “social doodler” suited me. I took my first makeup course at age twelve when mom busted me “drawing” on my face after dropping me off to see a movie. I started painting, studied French and Japanese then went to college and grad school. I explored various cities and lived in Japan for a year before growing roots in NYC. I studied Makeup Artistry at the Make-Up Designory and became a full-time painter on the most gorgeous variety of canvas in existence: the human face.

I’m currently bicoastal (NYC/PHX/LA) but work in D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, San Diego and some of the most random cities you can call to mind. I work in film, tv, advertising, fashion, celebrity, red carpet and runway with 16 blissful, gratitude filled years under my belt. My work is in publications such as: Vogue, People, WSJ, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, Cosmo, WWD and GQ, but the first time I felt like I “made it” was when I saw my artistry on a New York City billboard someone had defaced. You know you’ve arrived when your work compels another artist (to cover it with a mustache!).

The phenomenal people I get to call canvases are celebrities and rock stars, doctors, chefs, actors, athletes, race car drivers, writers, artists, professors, politicians, TEDtalkers, models and even did grooming for a Catholic priest once. (It was a job for Sotheby’s!) I love working with every variety of human, love what I do passionately, and know that every time I’m fortunate enough to do it I am one lucky social doodler.