Custom Art Commissions

Portraits, pets, places, and personal paintings created in Tiffany Zen’s signature style.

Bring Your Story Into a Gilded Painting

I create custom paintings that are personal, layered, and made to live with you for years to come. From portraits and pet portraits to home-inspired pieces, memorial artwork, and symbolic commissions, each painting is designed around your story, space, and vision. My work blends expressive color, linework, and gilded metal leaf to create one-of-a-kind artwork that feels deeply meaningful and visually striking.

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Commission Options

Portrait Commissions

Custom portraits for individuals, couples, children, and families. These can be expressive, colorful, intimate, and tailored to your style or story.

Pet Portraits

Paintings that celebrate the presence, personality, and spirit of a beloved animal, from living companions to memorial pieces.

Home, Place, and Memory Paintings

Artwork inspired by homes, meaningful architecture, landscapes, or places that hold emotional significance.

Symbolic & Conceptual Custom Paintings

For collectors who want something more interpretive, I also create custom paintings based on themes, stories, relationships, or emotional ideas.

Gilded Adornment Portraits

My signature specialty portrait format, featuring painted portraits with metal leaf and optional openings designed to hold meaningful jewelry.

A colorful mixed media artwork of a woman with short hair, earrings, and a necklace, smiling with closed eyes, set against an abstract background of purple, blue, and pink stripes.
A colorful portrait painting of a woman with short hair, earrings, and necklace, set against a sunset or sunrise background with pink, purple, and blue sky. The painting is on a wooden easel and is placed next to a white vase with purple flowers.
A colorful painting of a woman with long gray hair in a bun, standing in front of a landscape with a river, green hills, and a sky with clouds. The woman is smelling pink cherry blossoms on a branch.
A couple holding two puppies, one tiger-striped kitten, with a colorful sunset background.
A colorful painting of a man and woman with three cats, surrounded by floral patterns.
A detailed illustration of a nighttime scene featuring an owl with two owlets in a nest, framed by trees and branches. In the background, there's a large building with steps leading up to it, and a body of water with a small boat. The sky is dark wit

What Makes a Zen eARTh Commission Unique

  • Every painting includes hand-applied metal leaf

  • Built on wood panels with natural grain and texture

  • Designed specifically for your story, space, and subject

  • Combines architectural thinking with fine art composition

  • Layered color and luminous surfaces that shift with light

  • One-of-a-kind original artwork, never reproduced

Commission Pricing

Pricing is based on size, calculated per square inch. This keeps the process simple, transparent, and flexible—whether you are commissioning a portrait, pet painting, or a more conceptual piece.

Watercolor & Acrylic: $1 per square inch

Oil Painting: $2 per square inch

All commissions include original artwork on wood panel and hand-applied metal leaf as a core part of the piece.

Because pricing is based on size rather than subject, you can choose what matters most to you without added fees for complexity, number of figures, or detail.

Example Sizes & Pricing

12 × 12 (144 sq in)

$144 (watercolor/acrylic)

$288 (oil)

16 × 20 (320 sq in)

$320 (watercolor/acrylic)

$640 (oil)

24 × 36 (864 sq in)

$864 (watercolor/acrylic)

$1,728 (oil)

Not sure what size you need?

I’m happy to help you determine the right scale for your space and vision.

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Featured Article

Colorful illustration of a smiling man with glasses and a beard and a woman with glasses and long dark hair, surrounded by four orange tabby cats and decorated with flowers and intricate patterns.

A Family Portrait Commission

This custom Art Nouveau family portrait features an ornate gold leaf frame and heavy florals in deep reds, soft pinks, and white peonies. Painted in oil with copper leaf on the cats and gold leaf for the figures and edges, it evolved through sketches, revisions, and a critique that added dimension to the faces and refined hair details. The process was collaborative and rewarding. The painting is finished and ready for pickup. Read the full step-by-step journey.

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Colorful artwork of a woman with braided hair wearing round sunglasses, jewelry, and a headscarf, set against a vibrant abstract background.
A portrait of a woman with light skin and red hair, wearing jewelry, against a vibrant, colorful, abstract background with swirling patterns.
A colorful artistic portrait of a woman with blonde hair styled in a bun. She is winking with one eye and puckering her lips. She is wearing large earrings and layered necklaces. The background features abstract, swirling shades of pink, blue, and pu
Illustration of a smiling woman with short hair, wearing earrings and necklaces, with a background of pink, purple, and blue watercolor-like stripes.
An artistic portrait of an older woman with long white hair, wearing earrings and layered necklaces, dressed in a patterned top, against a colorful abstract background.
A mixed media artwork of a woman with closed eyes, wearing jewelry, with a stylized background of water in shades of blue and a cream-colored surface.

Gilded Adornment Portrait (Signature Offering)

These portraits are designed to hold more than an image. They are created to carry meaning.

Each Gilded Adornment Portrait is a custom painting built with hand-applied metal leaf and intentionally designed to incorporate personal jewelry directly into the artwork. Openings within the composition are carefully planned to hold earrings, necklaces, or other meaningful pieces, allowing the portrait to physically carry objects tied to memory, identity, and story.

This creates a layered, dimensional work that exists between painting and object, where adornment becomes part of the composition rather than something depicted. The jewelry is not painted. It is physically added to the artwork, becoming part of the final piece.

Because of this integration, the composition, pose, and structure of the portrait are thoughtfully developed from the beginning to support both the painting and the placement of jewelry.

These works are especially meaningful for

honoring personal identity and style

incorporating heirloom or sentimental jewelry

creating a deeply personal, one of a kind artwork

Ready to Begin Your Commission

Whether you are honoring a relationship, capturing a meaningful place, or creating something entirely your own, this process is designed to translate your story into a lasting work of art.

Each piece is created with care, intention, and material depth, becoming something that lives with you over time, not just something you hang on a wall.

If you have an idea, even if it is still forming, you are welcome to reach out. I will guide you through the next steps and help shape the direction of the piece.

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