Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

Today I used a round brush and I loved it! The entire painting experience was more fluid and natural, no fighting against anything. A poin...

I found this 3 inch tall glass in a thrift shop and couldn't buy it then so had to return 4 days later and search among endless piles of...

The two things are leaning on the third thing, which is the sleeve to the Lucian Freud book. These colors are altogether too upbeat for Luci...

I backed up to a simpler composition for re-entry. It's so interesting how you take for granted the accumulation of millions of gross a...

Ooo, hard to plunge in just where you left off... I wanted to do a formal presentation of objects with lots of space around so I could pay a...

Another one with the big brush. Of course when you think about it, it is amusing to think a tool is going to change the way you see things....

I had to take a shot at this, it was so good, the illuminated mouth and the fat cigar. Thank you, Tom.

This time I used a #10 but it was a brand new Monarch bright with a crisp new edge to it, so I could have painted the teeth on a zipper if ...

I wanted to try something more complex and larger and still use the big brush, keeping as loose as I could and getting shapes blocked in sim...

For this painting I on purpose used the Bristlon Silver #8 brush (huge, 3/4 quarters of an inch wide) which is also old and splayed. I felt...

This is my good friend, Hedy Lamarr.

This is my favorite drink, best drunk in the summer months on a veranda anywhere in Italy. Winter months ok also.

OK, I know the chicken was grotesque. Grotesque things are good to paint because you really have to look hard. It wasn't my best chick...

This is a little Cornish game hen. It starts out pink and pearly and then it cooks under the lights and turns brown before your eyes, faste...

Here are the quince again on a more glamorous background. I really like working on these throwaway bits of primed hardboard. I feel like i...

These are the self portraits my student and I painted. Although often harrowing, I think portrait painting is the most exciting painting ex...

A friend sent me a priority mail box of these fruits and I am trying to turn them into a silk purse. I had a quick go at them here on a tiny...

I've been missing the bird, so I went for another cupcake pairing. Lately I have been using a burnt sienna wash on the gessobord and dr...

Nick R. gave me this cupcake to paint and I immediately wanted to elevate it spiritually and physically. I painted it on top of a stack of ...

Yesterday morning early I stumbled on Jeff Mahorney's blog in which he discussed what he learned from doing 120 paintings. He has it li...

This painting was a breakthrough of sorts. I did not futz with it at all. I used a brush that was too large and put everything down in blo...

With my present camera I cannot eliminate the glare in the upper left corner, which is maddening. I have been reading about polarized lenses...

Exploring white. Out of steam tonight. Words took flight.

Well, shoes....they are an indulgence, even painting them. The shapes of shoes can be exciting like the shapes of cars (Jaguars! The BMW ...

Maybe you could make an entire career of getting glass right, the edges of it as it meets the air. I mostly don't feel defeated when I d...

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.