Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

This is a funny one -- I inadvertently got that one blossom dead center, just like a bull's eye.

I have these grocery store asters, so dark purple they are almost black. My thinking: put black behind them so it's really somber and k...

I had a great trip and there was lots of time for pondering while traveling as it took many flight legs to actually arrive in the Wilderness...

I'm off tomorrow to Yellowstone with an old friend and will return next week fresh and invigorated. See you then ---

This handsome boy is my grandson, spare heir extraordinare! He is just about to celebrate his first birthday.

The painting on the top is the 200th painting! The painting on the bottom is one of the first ones I did for the blog. The return for eff...

Calm, straightforward peach on dark green paper, which was sort of a bear. So much variety in the green, blue green, yellow green, brownish...

This painting was done at the tail end of my fury (now I am spent). I just threw the stuff down and got to painting it, being as physical w...

I am now shunned at the fancy pants cupcake store, because I make icing requirements (not too much, not too little, only in the center so t...

Today was a horrible painting day. I began with a prepared 8x10" board and a set up with a bowl of prickly pear apples, odd shaped ba...

This is another attempt at the business card image, but as Linda Popple told me, I can just take a piece of an already existing painting to ...

I thought I would try for an image that would be ok to put on a business card, as I need some, and I like the quirky products at Moo.com. Th...

Another tortured composition, but again, a man's reach must exceed his grasp. I am fascinated with all the tropical fruit available he...

I got this little perch from my regular fish place in Austin. Usually they last a couple of paintings, but this one was gone from the begin...

These little ones are calming to do, pleasant, a rest.

This is very small, I was just working out some ideas for a longer larger piece. I had trouble photographing because of - do not know, coul...

These were pitiful little apples, no one would ever make a pie of them. But they were so darkly red they were interesting to paint and to t...

This is the newest addition to our family, Hayes, 7 hours after he was born.

I have a new light box and new lights, so I can manipulate everything more easily - I'm so excited. My studio has been draped with ext...

My studio time today was sandwiched between two obligations, so I had to get right to it and get finished fast. I often find that is a good...

It is not possible to photograph this without glare because of the black, so this will have to do for now. This small size works much bette...

Another one of the envelope size. These are fun to do. I like the partial aspect of it, part of something visible that can't be recogni...

Another of the fancy pants cupcakes. I deliberately tried to stay all pink-orange in this with the exception of the marble. I did have a ...

This is another end piece of hardboard I kept to play on. I bought a bag of these tiny impossibly dark apples to paint because they keep fo...

I had some leftover ends of gessoed panel to use for playing.

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 ...