Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

A better use of color in the whites here, but shimmering, no. This is my last post until April 4 - I am going to re- juice the Muse! - and...

This is more experimenting with color that can go into white to make it look more alive. Hard to see but I used warm and cool next to each ...

More white cloth. I know from my painting experience of the last 2 months that the information I need presents itself. For instance, if I ...

I am thinking it would be good to work with some whites for a while. I remember seeing in real life a small painting, maybe 8x12 or 14 inch...

Last appearance for this little fish. Color terrible in this and all other photos I took of this pntg. Maybe terrible in real life, too, but...

I find it compositionally challenging to cram this long fish into an 8x6" panel, but I have the panels, so that is what will be happeni...

Breakthrough! I used a small round brush - it was like coming home! I could maneuver the paint around without picking it up again and witho...

I have been wanting to use black, also to see if I could make it with red/blue/yellow, which in fact can be done. I want soon to do somethi...

I swear the jar was tilted.

I'm looking forward to another go with this do nut. It was fun and I learned a lot about how to mix brown. Can you believe it is mix ...

I found these rubber bowls by Michael Graves in Target, they are misshapen, and I thought I would not have to worry about getting the ellips...

More color experiments. I am annoyed that I can't get the color right in this shot! The journey from photoshop to the blog post messes...

This is the painting from yesterday, which I completed after dark, so I couldn't photograph it. I am trying to work with some strong col...

This is my blonde miniature dachshund, Mary Magdalene. (She is spiritual.) This is a substitute post because I finished yesterday's pai...

I have been working on a baby portrait today and it has not been going well. At all. So I took time out to do this daily painting, and then...

This one was pretty straight forward, these little meaty bananas were fun and the guavas made perfume.

This is the second try. Better bowl, better color in the chicken, but not so frankly done as the first, which I was aiming for. I will not r...

This painting is a little triumph because: I have tried to draw this reamer many times and I got hopelessly mucked up with all the planes, ...

This painting was just fun and without agony and makes me feel like I have Learned Something!

I took this back to the easel and darkened the values in the upper left corner. The paint is unfriendly today, oily and slippery and everyt...

6" square, oil on canvas panel Raining here today and gray, so the color doesn't photograph wel...

8x6" oil on canvas panel Well... These are sort of romantic and prettified and I meant them to be more jolting with the blue and acid g...

Red underpainting on this one, no white show through specks as before. Progress.

Here is what I learned with this one: I usually tone the canvas before beginning the painting, but this time I was in a hurry, so I just go...

The really aggressive orange of these gloves is not photographing accurately, but I want to try painting them again anyway. One of the prob...

6" square oil on canvas panel More reflective stuff. That's actually my portrait on the belly of the pitcher.

6" square, oil on canvas panel I am easing into hard (opposed to organic) forms. Fruits and vegetables are so forgiving, but ellipses ...

6" square, oil on canvas panel These three pears are now retired from duty.

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!