Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

This is the last of three paintings done for a friend's daughter, who is just graduating from college and getting her first apartment. ...

This is whim-based composition. I kept adding things and discarding until something made all the parts lock together. The black balance...

This was fun. Also my own baked cupcakes were so pedestrian that I went back to try to find the cupcake shoppe again and this time they wer...

OKAY! This is a good one for me! Because: (1)it is unlabored and still fresh (2) drawing is reasonably accurate (3) color is unusual but...

This one was interesting to do, because it is long and narrow, and I tried to have something in the middle and then something strong enough ...

I am now reduced to making my own cupcakes, but I found these gold paper cups, so it's not all bad. There is definitely a learning curv...

So...this is not Beethoven awkward-the acceptable kind of awkward- with that top right peach balancing on the head of the lower peach. It mu...

My brain is completely fried tonight from wrestling with computer things.... All I remember about this is that I wanted that crisp napkin, ...

When I set the cupcake down on the cloth, by accident all the forms spread out from his head. Are there no accidents? I left it and painte...

I feel good about this one. I have been working with (and not posting because of general horribleness) the color brown. I haven't been...

I was intent on getting a cross for a composition, a strong vertical and horizontal. There is sort of a little gap between the two groups o...

As I got finished with this one I could see what should have been done ... the cupcake form needs to extend farther into the upper section, ...

I like stacking. It's playful and at its best it can be elegant. I guess there are at least two varieties: actual stacking, like pancak...

If I were to evaluate this, I would say it is too much information, not quite working. But I want to get just a hair short of that and so m...

I took one more shot at it before the peaches are spoiled. The cloth is so much fun it sort of paints itself. It's just the right sort...

I have done a Matisse!

I played with positioning a long time to get some sort of relationship going with the two objects and still have some reasonable composition...

So...back in the saddle again. I wanted to paint these plums on this strongly patterned cloth to see if I could make them show up. I mean -...

There is no post today and probably tomorrow because, as John Malkovich said to Michelle Pfieffer in Dangerous Liasons: It is beyond my con...

Better peaches! I used a large brush and slapped (in a thoughtful way) broad areas of color in and was done in 45 minutes. This is no mast...

OOOOhh, bad painting day yesterday. Everything wrong and awful, lots of wiping. These peaches were the best of the batch, so I'm posti...

A deracinated day today -- only time for a weenie cupcake with a marble.

The cupcake people can't understand why I am buying so many cupcakes, so finally I told them I was painting them, doing paintings of th...

This is the second painting of the two, in this one I worked the green stems over the red. No discernible difference, really.

10x8 inches It is getting easier. In each painting there are parts ...

A whopping 15x15 inches! I used a larger brush for this, at least 3/4 inch, and it was easier to get the broad shapes down because the brush...

I am having a little rebellion from my cupcake supply team (too busy, can't I have a carton of the ones with sprinkles?) and so must or...

This one is photographing very murky, and the color is actually cleaner than this shot. Something gets altered between my photo program and...

12" square, feels huge! ...

Cupcake Noir.