Rhoda Draws A Crowd!

Specialties

Digital caricature entertainment for conventions, corporate functions, weddings, parties and special events.

While Rhoda Draws & paints on a computer with an art tablet, the developing image is projected onto a big screen, while everyone watches in amazement as each likeness takes shape in about 5 minutes! Prints are created on-​the-​spot and include your logo or custom graphic. After the event you get all the digital caricatures on a CD.

NEW offering: LIVE event painting on canvas!

As the Bay Areas’s premier Live event Painter, I create an acrylic painting on canvas that captures the essence of your wedding, or other special event, while it is happening. The end result is an original work of art that you’ll cherish for years. Your guests will be amazed as the painting comes to life beCrowd! is an LGBT-​friendly business.

History

Established in 1981.

Fed up with brutal winters and scorching summers in Chicago, Rhoda moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981 and began doing business as «Rhoda Draws A Crowd!» She also continued her singing telegram business, «Send a Yenta.» In the mid-​eighties Rhoda created the Mrs. Bagelman line of greeting cards with a humorous Jewish theme.

After a gig at the 1989 Comdex Expo in Las Vegas, Rhoda began to transfer her art skills to the computer. She quickly become proficient with Photoshop and Painter, drawing crowds at computer graphics conventions for high tech clients. She teaches classes and has written several books on the creative use of pixel-​based software.

In the mid-​nineties the California State Board of Equalization billed her for 8 years of uncollected sales taxes, penalties and interest: $ 30,000. Rhoda claimed, successfully, that the drawings she creates at private functions are the incidental by-​product of a service (entertainment) and therefore not subject to sales tax.

Meet the Business Owner

Rhoda D.

Business Owner

As a child I loved to draw. When I entered high school, the freshman «advisor» waved a bunch of test scores in my face and yelled that I was «too smart to be an artist!» She «advised» that I should be a lab technician. At age 30 I realized I wasn’t all that smart. My art talent was still waiting for me, and I plunged into drawing and painting classes.

Drawing caricatures at street fairs, then resort lobbies, and finally private parties and conventions has enabled me to make a living while continuing to develop as a fine artist. Discovering digital drawing opened a new career path, including teaching and writing books. I have been using the computer to create figure drawings for about 20 years. My newest passion is painting «wet media» portraits. I recently completed a series of 24×30 acrylic portraits of women with curly hair. I will gladly accept portrait commissions for people with any kind of hair, or no hair at all.

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«Not just an awesome art supply store. They offer a full program of demonstrations, workshops and classes. I am their digital painting teacher.»