Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

6" square, oil on canvas panel Pretty ripe pears now. Maybe one more day's worth of modeling.

8x6", oil on canvas panel I lost this post somehow, so this is a redo, slightly better photo this time. So much to learn!

More pears sitting down. I am going to stick at these pears until I completely get it.

6" square, oil on canvas panel The color is not so delightful here, but I am making an effort to get away from the whorish color that ...

6" square, oil on canvas panel Edges not so good and they don't sit down! I saw that my relatively new brush is all scrabbly at th...

6 " square, oil on canvas panel This is the 5th painting of the red peppers and the only survivor. It was somewhat easier today after ...

8x6" oil on canvas panel Today I was beaten by two red peppers on a pink cloth. The paint was uncontrollable, slippery, muddy and mean...

Working on shadows again today, trying to keep away from that lurid color I love so much.

8x6" oil on canvas panel Here is the second try, first try below. This didn't photograph as well, it is raining here today, but it...

6x8" oil on canvas panel I bought this lovely little pomfret and had to wrestle with the fish person to keep her from filleting it. Wh...

My effort yesterday was to get the darks darks enough (I resist this for some reason) so that the form sits down in space with authority. A...

6" square, oil on gessoed paper I painted yesterday's blue plate and apricot...

6 " square, oil on canvas panel Still a couple of wiped down paintings bef...

I have been out of the studio for a few days, so yesterday was full of stumbling and frustration: 4 wiped down paintings and thinking I shou...

I am trying to work out hot colors here, to get excessive saturation and intensity, and above all use that hot pink to best advantage.

My neighbor's dog, Caesar, is beautifully behaved and very very smart. This is oil on panel, and the surface was slick and took the pai...

In 2006 I decided to put aside abstraction and teach myself to paint realistically. What follows is the evidence. I have learned so much o...