"Jethro In Acrylics" on Claybord™ © Judy Lavoie 2021
1 Apr 2021

Jethro In Acrylics

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My third portrait of my sweet cat Jethro illustrates using Golden Fluid Acrylics on a white Claybord™ panel. Each of my nine portraits of Jethro presents a different art medium on a 3.5″ x 3.5″ Claybord™ Tile, created and manufactured by Ampersand Art Supply. For this painting I posterized my reference photo in Photoshop to reduce it down to a handful of values. I used just four colors of acrylic paint, with Paynes Gray as the darkest value. I mixed … Read More

Wooden Dog next to Eye of the Tiger scratchboard © Judy Lavoie 2020
30 Mar 2021

See the Show!

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The “No Bigger Than a Breadbox” exhibition, which includes my two paintings Locked In Time and Eye of the Tiger, opens this Friday, April 2, 2021. Presented by Knoxville’s Arts & Culture Alliance, the show is displayed in the Balcony Gallery at The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902 (at the corner of Gay and Jackson), through April 30, 2021. It is great to have a live show again, although spectators will be limited. You can also … Read More

"Jethro - Scratchbord Inks" on Claybord™ © Judy Lavoie 2021
27 Mar 2021

Jethro In Scratchbord Inks

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This second portrait of my rescued cat Jethro illustrates using Scratchbord Inks on a white Claybord™ panel. Each of my nine portraits of Jethro presents a different art medium on a 3.5″ x 3.5″ Claybord™ Tile, created and manufactured by Ampersand Art Supply. For this painting I made the Claybord into a black surface, very much like Ampersand’s Scratchbord™.  I did this by applying two coats of “Repair Black,” which is included as one of the inks in the set … Read More

"Remembrance," watercolor © Judy Lavoie 2020
25 Mar 2021

Big Poppy Earns a Big Spot

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My big red poppy watercolor painting “Remembrance” has just been juried into the Arts in the Airport exhibition at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, TN. Juror Caroline Covington selected only 41 pieces from 484 entries, so I am excited and honored to be chosen among so few. Only artists from 33 counties of East Tennessee could enter, and original works in these categories were allowed: Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, 3‐D, and Fine Craft Objects. This biannual exhibit has been presented … Read More

"Jethro - Watercolors" watercolor on Claybord © Judy Lavoie 2021
24 Mar 2021

Introducing Jethro!

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My rescued cat Jethro is full of personality and extremely willing to pose for endless photos (he loves attention!). This is the first of my nine portraits of Jethro, each using a different art medium on a 3.5″ x 3.5″ Claybord™ Tile, created and manufactured by Ampersand Art Supply. For this painting I chose a limited palette of primary colors, letting them mix randomly on the smooth surface to create beautiful hues. Claybord has the unique feature of allowing dried … Read More

"How Sweet It Is" scratchboard © Judy Lavoie 2021
18 Mar 2021

Two Passions

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I love scratchboarding and I love chocolate, so I decided to combine the two in creating How Sweet It Is. I painted a big watercolor of chocolates years ago, Decadence, and it has always ranked among my personal favorite paintings. Even though this is a very very small artwork – just 4.5″ x 3″ – it took forever! The image was created with tiny marks into the black surface, slowly working my way throughout the panel. To be able to … Read More

"Eye of the Tiger," Scratchbord © Judy Lavoie 2020
26 Feb 2021

Small Works, Big Recognition

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I just heard that two of my paintings have been accepted to an upcoming biennial exhibition called “No Bigger Than a Breadbox.” There were 384 entries and only 67 have been juried into the show, so I am delighted with the news. My black Scratchbords “Locked In Time”, with color added with inks, and “Eye Of The Tiger” will be featured. (You can see the small size of “Eye Of The Tiger” shown in my hand in the photo). The … Read More

"Play Ball" title for blog post
16 Feb 2021

A Disaster (And A Fix)

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Remember the scratchboard “Wee Lad” I last posted about? Well, I messed it all up! Here’s what happened…. I considered this a learning piece, so I decided to continue beyond the black and white stage and add some color. Since I was imagining the little boy as a Scottish lad, I thought it would add to the look to give him blue/green irises. I stratched away a bit more in his eyes to allow the color to show better and … Read More

"Wee Lad" blog title image
10 Feb 2021

Stippling on Scratchboard

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I’ve just learned a new scratchboard technique for creating smooth transitions between shades of gray. It’s a great improvement over what I was doing. Sheryl Unwin, a fabulous scratchboard artist, was generous to share her methods for both stippling and hatching in a 4-session Zoom workshop. I’ve created “Wee Lad,” a small 5” x 7” Scratchbord™, with her tips. I love my results, but I need more practice to really latch onto this technique. It is rather time consuming … … Read More

"Fishing The Tellico" blog title image
1 Feb 2021

Just Fishin’

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“Fishing the Tellico” is the first watercolor painting I’ve completed in months, having spent my “art” time creating scratchboard art, painting a few pet portraits in acrylics, participating in some Zoom art sessions, and creating this new website. Switching media keeps things interesting, but it always takes me a bit of time to readjust. I put together a palette of many transparent colors for this painting and arranged them like a rainbow. To help me see the colors better I … Read More

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