Glow with the flow — Attraction in Avalon

The premise of this business is the opprotunity to learn a new painting technique whilst "co-creating" your own, very cool piece of art with unique blacklight highlights. Essentially, you are paying for an experience (your painting session with oil/acrylic artist Jason Greene) as well as a product (the canvas you take home), so I will discuss both with respect to my 2 out of 5 star rating.

TLDR: My sister & I's experience was mostly fun, but the final product (our paintings) unfortunately did not meet our expectations due to several lapses of professionalism from the studio and Jason Greene.

My sister and I had our appointment at 4pm on Friday 6/17/20. Jason upsold my sister from the $60-sized canvas to the $100-sized canvas at the discounted price of $80; she worried aloud about the larger size drying in time as our boat was the next day at 12:30pm, and Jason assured her it would not be an issue. He then gave me the $40-sized canvas at the discounted price of $20, so initially we are thinking we are getting a great deal. Our family vacations to Avalon every year, so it can be hard to find new things to do and we were stoked to discover this interactive art studio. The paiting session took about 20 or 30 minutes for both of our canvases, and the experience aspect is a lot of fun! Jason asks you what pieces on the walls you like, what designs/imagery you are thinking, and then starts to talk color pallette. One aspect that fell short of my expectation was the "co-creative" element: you get to pick maybe 40% of your colors, and are only hands-on for about 10 to 20% of the painting; Jason does the rest. He is the professional artist, so I can understand the business sense of entrusting him with the majority of the creative work/responsibility...

And here is where our experience started to go sideways. After completing the acrylic background of both of our canvased, James claimed he would complete the finishing details on his own time so that our paintings would be done by our boat ride the next day. This did not happen. The next day, my sister & I tried to call Jason at 10AM to confirm pick up as discussed at 11AM. He did not answer, we left a voicemail, and he did not return our call. An hour later, we show up as scheduled and are greeted as if we are new customers and he doesn't remember who we are. After we explain that we were here yesterday and are ready to pick up the painting with 4 palm trees and the painting with an octopus fighting a warrior, he does remember us, except guess what?

Neither comission has been worked on at all since we left the day before. Jason retrieves my sister's painting from underneath his work space, and loose paint left dark marks on the canvas due to the unprofessional storage strategy. He hastily painted on a warrior for me as he explained A) his cellphone has been acting up, and B) his boat motor died last night, causing him to have a stressful evening and lose sleep. That sucks if its true, but neither excuse explains why he was working on several other pieces of art when my sister & I returned, instead of our commissioned pieces, which he promised over and over again would be ready in time for our 12:30pm boat.

I tipped him an extra $15 at the end of our 1st session because I was so grateful he was putting in the extra time and effort to give me my warrior & octopus. Considering he painted my warrior using a blow dryer in front of me, and the fact that my sister ended up with 0 out of 4 palm trees requested, all whilst Jason is attempting to explain away his failure to render the service paid for... really left me with a sour experience of this studio. My sister & I clearly communicated what we wanted and our time frame, yet neither was honored despite payment in full and a generous tip. Truly...

Overall, the experience was super unique and fun. I brought in 6 people and we spent $45-$65 each plus tip. We got some gorgeous paintings out of it and we will cherish them for years to come. The artist was knowledgeable and fun to work with, she did a great job. However, the next day we went to pick our paintings up an hour and a half before our boat left, but nobody answered the phone. 15 mins later I get a text back that she’s there, so we go back. The paintings are still wet, we assumed they would be but they assured us we’d have a box to store them in during travel. The boxes were not made. She had to make 6 boxes. We helped her but I could tell she was stressed. I’m not sure the unpreparedness was her fault or the owners, but it was highly unprofessional and stressful for everyone involved. The paintings should have been boxed upon arrival. My painting was larger than the available box size so she had to makeshift a box that was put together so badly; I know she did what she could, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. This shouldn’t have even been an issue, they need to be stocked with the proper sized boxes. It was a pain in the a** to travel with, it truly made the trip back so much more stressful. My painting was smudged a few times during the trip because it was exposed on one side and I was very upset about it. It still looks great but I’m really disappointed with the ending of that. Oh well. We...

I went to the location on Monday the 18th, 2022 around 3pm. We had 4 temp tattoos done. No water contact as recommend and no smudging. I woke up the next morning smeared and stained everywhere!!! I can't get this stuff off and now I look like I have brisues or something all over. Waste of money. The artist complained the entire time how he was tired. The girl was not good at freehand style, the flowers are all different and the work was incomplete for my sister's hand design. No website at all linked, trying to find the type of tattoo to...