Caricature Artist

Judy, a live caricaturist artist is especially gifted in drawing faces, with a keen eye for detail, and a knack for capturing a flattering resemblance. With a portrait background, she has a style all her own, creating portrait / caricature hybrids or what she calls “portraicatures” (either headshots, or drawn with large heads with small bodies), and very different from the sometimes indistinct or grotesquely exaggerated style you may see at fairs and theme parks. She has delighted young and old, many who have said “you made me look better than I do”!

Since 2002, she has drawn live professionally all over Connecticut and parts beyond, at all types of family and corporate parties, birthday parties, reunions, weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvah's, open houses/grand openings, post-prom /project graduation and other school events, charity fundraisers, festivals, corporate functions and even nightclubs, and has drawn along side some of her fellow caricaturists, and subcontracts them to join her for larger events, or those for which she is unavailable.

A social and friendly person, Judy provides a fun yet more subtle form of entertainment and likes to engage where there is opportunity, having a tendency to get people to smile, putting them at ease. At parties/events, she averages in BW between an individual headshot in 4-5 minutes, color a minute or two longer. Full body drawings are a bit longer. She does the drawings on plain paper, or she can design and produce predesigned border, themed or papers with pre-drawn bodies to save time.

Her 2023 party rate for direct bookings starts at $125 per hour, two hour minimum for smallish or private events and for weddings or larger formal or larger facility events, there is a three hour minimum, not including an increasing travel stipend added to total past 24 miles of studio.

If you have a definite date or event in mind, please contact her at least 3 weeks to a month prior for best chance at availability, and during peak season, preferably 6 weeks in advance (typically May September). Generally 1/4-1/3 deposit is required to confirm date, check, credit card or PayPal. Please email or call for a precise event quotation.

She can also draw remotely via ZOOM a meeting you setup, or via FaceTime, or probably Skype, drawing on her iPad ( and email or send cloud link for download) or Bristol stock/ lightweight cover paper which can be shipped. Time to draw each digital may take longer than on paper, especially if color.

CUSTOM GIFT CARICATURES/MEMENTOS

Judy also creates more detailed, gift-quality caricatures (see gift/sign-in board samples that appear more rendered or detailed) in various sizes from photos, and they are provided with black or coordinating color mat (12 x 16 to 18 x 24) unless a larger image size is desired.

She also can create a party sign-in board featuring a caricature of the honoree. Sign-in boards are drawn to size and mounted or drawn smaller and digitally sized, enhanced and printed then mounted, and can be laminated if desired (18 x 24 to 24 x 36). She has also created place-cards featuring caricatures of guests, and has other ideas in a PDF link on her commission caricature page on her website! Please visit her website at: jt-artanddesign today and check out her other artwork options as well, including people, animal and house portraits, and print design! And please check out her links to see even more of her art. She sells her commissions currently at her ETSY shop: JTPortraicatures. Be sure to check it out!

Among other cities, JT Art & Design may serve the following areas: Waterbury, New Haven, Hamden, Watertown, Farmington, New Britain, Hartford, Windsor, Enfield, Manchester, Southbury, Newtown, Danbury, Derby, Shelton, Bridgeport, Milford, Branford, Clinton, New London, Mystic, Norwich, Norwalk, Stamford, Greenwich, in addition to parts of MA, eastern NYS and RI.