Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

8 inches square, oil on panel I have been looking at Don Baccardy's work, a California portrait painter, prolific too, so there is...

12 x14 in, oil on panel She has lived in this cone for weeks. It is hard plastic, so unfriendly. I am suffering over this cone.

12 inches, square oil on board Hurting and on drugs! Awful. Cast comes off Wednesday. I'm using different brushes, old ones, even...

Back in the saddle at last.  12 x 16 inches, oil on panel.

This was done from a Christmas photograph, and so -- many challenges, oy! In particular, the edges, some merged and some stingingly clear...

I  learned a lot on this one. The portrait was mostly painted first and then seemed to need the bird. I crowd sourced the bird (for ap...

In this painting I had an opportunity to execute (!!) a move I learned last year in Joseph Todorovitch's class. I asked him about la...

My intentions were to go for color, and worse still, pattern in the background. As I got going it seemed that the folds of my nightgown, ...

It is what it is. How many times I have thrilled, I mean really gasped out loud --  to see that line that Freud can paint on the top of...

Happy New Year ! May Leonard Cohen be resting in the arms of angels... and -- "May peace and peace and peace be everywhere...

Another year under the belt.  These are my offering to the drawing group Christmas bash, at which there are multiple models to draw from...

Although I have not posted at all since May I have been painting consistently but wiping most of them.  This one though is a commission ...

This one was touch and go. A.had just got a bad haircut and was very upset, crying, and her nose and eyes were red and swollen. I was ...

This is the nicest guy ever, the guy you would want to be your lawyer if you HAD to have one. He attends  the same drop in life drawing ...

This is a second painting of an earlier photograph from 2 summers back, may not be the same pose, but same sitting. 4 Italian women too...

This started out in realism and finished itself in abstraction, my old home. I  have a thing about plates, dishes --- I love them. ...

Well, I have been doing a lot of painting but no posting because I have been taking a class with Joseph Todorovitch and learning new ...

I've done this motif several times, trying to work my way through it, to learn about the space, color, landscape (aaaugh!) ...

This was a quick sketch at the end of the day.  I used big brushes and lots of paint and medium and worked like a house afire and did n...

Royal Icing on sugar cookie dough. 2.5x1.5 inches

As soon as I saw this man I was beside myself to have his photograph. He graciously agreed to pose. I have another shot of him smiling b...

I got overwrought on a portrait and had to stop and do something fun, or else cut everything up with a chain saw and be done. Hence, thi...

This is 8 x 10 or so, oil on board.  His skin was so colorful, pearlescent.  And there was such sweetness in his face. It is difficult f...

This is the second painting of a boy/man in a painting class I took last year. He was indifferent to everything that went on, never brou...

Again, 10 x 14 inches, trying to work quickly and state the obvious facts with strength and then not weaken them with futzing, to make a...

This is about 10 x 14 inches, on Italian linen sheets that are gessoed, all in a pad. Much superior to the American ones, easy to work w...

With Maria Lassnig in my heart, I am soldiering on, looking for a way to use color differently and also psychological acumen rather than...

I have another jam jar label to do a painting for, so I have done a couple of warm ups. In Italy when the season is finished for somethi...

Buonasera -- I'm working in Italy in not optimal conditions, but who cares, que sera, sera... My real camera is not working so I h...

5 inches square oil on panel I am working on a larger painting and I'm scared. It's going pretty well, actually, but I get ...