Judy Lavoie Art

17 May 2021

My YouTube Premiere

I’ve just launched a new YouTube channel, which will feature my videos of tips and techniques with watercolor, acrylics, and scratchboarding. I need your help… please subscribe! When my channel gets over 100 subscribers, I’ll be able to name it Judy Lavoie Art and also get that name in the URL. Visit my YouTube channel Click on the red “Subscribe” button. It’s that easy. Thanks for your help! Enjoy my “Claybord 101” video and watch my video page for more … Read More

1 May 2021

Claybord™ 101 Resources

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This post contains comprehensive information to expand upon my presentation “Claybord™ 101 – The Ultimate Art Surface.” Below you will find “9 Lives” – 9 portraits of my cat Jethro in 9 different media, all on 3.5″ square Claybord Art Tiles. Scroll below to discover numerous valuable links to helpful tips on using Claybord, great articles, how-to videos (including my video of the presentation), and to the work of many fine artists using Claybord. I hope you are inspired use … Read More

1 May 2021

Jethro In Colored Markers

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Yahoo, I’ve just finished my final portrait in the “9 Lives” series of my little Jethro. 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. I have exhausted my supply of various mediums among my art supply stash with the first 8 portraits, so this time I splurged on a new medium. After researching various types of color markers I purchased a couple … Read More

26 Apr 2021

Jethro In Graphite

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Portrait #8 of Jethro the crazy kitty is done in graphite. 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. I haven’t worked with graphite for decades, so I had to dust off my pencils and get my feet wet again. Claybord is ultra-smooth, with no ‘tooth’ as is common in paper surfaces designed to trap the particles when drawing with graphite, charcoal, … Read More

19 Apr 2021

Jethro’s Selfie – Photo Image Transfer

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My 7th Jethro portrait is an Image Transfer. 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. This image transfer onto Claybord is a fun project to use with photographs, lettering, or with any image printed from a laser printer or copier (not ink jet). I had never tried the process, but I thought it would be a fun addition to my Jethro … Read More

13 Apr 2021

Jethro In Gouache

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This is my portrait #6 of Jethro, created with gouache paints 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. Gouache (pronounceed “gwash”) is a water soluable paint, sometimes called opaque watercolor or body color. It is a mixture of pigment, a water soluble binder, and a white pigment or chalk (the ‘body’). The latter is added to … Read More

9 Apr 2021

Jethro In Colored Pencils

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My 5th Jethro portrait is created with colored pencils 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 used Prismacolor colored pencils, which have a soft core. The Claybord surface is ultra-smooth, unlike many papers made for color pencils which have a “tooth.” The lead in colored pencils holds pigments in a wax base, … Read More

5 Apr 2021

Jethro In Black Sumi Ink

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Portrait #4 of cute kitty Jethro illustrates using Black Sumi Ink 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 used Yasutomo liquid Sumi Ink KY12, which is water soluable but dries water-resistant. This ink is made from pure vegetable soot, with no additives. Yasutomo brand’s KF series contains a small amount of shellac … Read More

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

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