Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

Have hit slough of despond, another day of baaaaaad painting. This one, not so bad, from last week, wiped the earlier ones.

This is a painting I did last week and didn't like so much because of its stiffness and the slight wonk of the bowl, but am now posting ...

Well, I didn't see this one coming, I set out to do really loose and then here I was. It is sorta loose. I have been looking at loose...

Glad to be finished with that bowl, thanks everybody for all your support. It takes a village. My next task is to looooooosen up. And al...

Voila! Done.

These are crab apples with actual leaves attached! Nearing the end - I have learned a lot with this. Three or four in I thought, big mista...

This one was......fun! (Bwha - ha - ha, only 2 more to go!)

I can see the end from here, three more to go.

Ai yi yi, 10 is a lot of bowls. Thanks you guys who are keeping me pumped for the duration. The bowls get easier, slightly. It turns out t...

Can this be only number 5? It seems like so many more.

This bowl is difficult because of drawing issues, not painting ones. The sides are squared and curved. Whatever, it is good practice. Thi...

I have recently joined a challenge blog, Some Texas Artists Like to Paint, and this is my first submission. The challenge theme for this mo...

I am including these shots of the beginning stages for the benefit of my extended family who have asked what is black gesso. Usually the g...

This bowl is a bear. I am trying to do my "welcoming with affection" all things, including the bowl, but I admit to gritted teeth...

I have been working on this plastic bowl for three days already and could never bring it off -drawing problems mostly. By that I mean each ...

A last shot at the Vienna sausages.

Yes --- Black Gesso! I bought some and used it underneath the second painting, the one just above this copy. I'm sorry the photo of the...

One more run for the figs. I am still using a pretty large round brush and mostly it feels right. It does not leave a chop in the paint lik...

I bought 5, but one was weeping and so had to be eaten with honey and gorgonzola.

Oh the poetry of Vienna Sausages. In Alabama where I grew up it was pronounced Vi - ayna, yes, hard to believe this, but true. The barbecu...

This time I went to little leftover dark apples and moved the easel farther away from the light box, so there would be more space around the...

More apples -- I am trying to do them quickly (but sensitively) and not make them more important than the rest of the painting -- and I also...

This is today's warm up and it was really fun, because I was trying to find a way to see them new and stacking them did it. As I was pa...

This is the warm up, apples on black. They are getting easier. However, I am using a value finder, a red plastic thing you look through, w...

Again, this is the warm up study before the real work, and then the second painting didn't work so I am going to wipe it. But it was a...

This is a little warm up I did this morning to get ready for the real stuff, and then the real stuff was no good, so now this one is the def...

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...