Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

I wanted to explore some ideas in this one: reducing detail, losing edges, and using strong color with gray. It's funny that it takes s...

I got new glasses.

I made an attempt to reign in the whorish color here, truly I did.

I'm trying to work out how the plaid can be painted without anal retentativeness and still be plaid - wanton plaid, maybe.

Easter material.

I worked on a larger painting today, not post worthy, but I am learning a lot. More complicated compositions, more space (yikes!), more stu...

I made a last attempt to find some bluebonnets today and rode my bike out to some fields near my house. Nothing. These are the wildflowers...

Come back, Little Sheba.

I didn't think I had anything postable today but as I was cleaning up I found a little painting I had done of these sort of desiccated b...

Just dogs playing, a little break.

Well, I have to do something that is purely fun tomorrow, because every last brain cell I have is fried. Last weekend I bought a postcard o...

This is my neighbor's grandchild. I have a shot of her in a - yes - plaid dress. I thought I'd better do some exploratory stuff be...

No kidding, this plaid just sort of came to me unbidden, so I had to go with it. I liked the outward and opposite gaze of these two beings,...

Nothing to be said here.

I wanted to do this subject again and paint more vigorously and less cautiously, which I did do, but it doesn't show here - could it be ...

This is my entry for the April challenge, Tools, at Some Texas Artists Like to Paint. To see what everyone else is doing, click here.

Thank you, Plaid Supporters. I went looking for some new ones, but plaid is not a summer thing apparently - fall is for plaid. I DID find ...

This plaid thing is starting to feel Steve Martin-ish. Didn't he wear those plaid pants in "The Jerk"? In any case, it'...

Yes, dogs on plaid. I took this photo 10 times, could not improve the color or reduce the glare.

This plaid is a lot to grapple with. It is silk taffeta, so it has sheen and shadow right next to each other that are different colors alto...

Practicing my plaid.

I had big plans to do lots of painting stuff today, but there was house stuff and grocery stuff and yard stuff all needing attention, so I o...

First: This is seriously pink in real life, but what can you do with that whole photo process, so frustrating. I tried to keep it all sort ...

This was one of those things - you get the idea sort of wholly formed in your head and you almost break your neck to get it down. I have be...

More of my grey/yellow/brown paper behind this plant, experimenting with brighter clearer color next to lesser color, etc.

This is my entry in Angela Elledge's Moleskine journal - part of the Moleskine Roundup. We send around a journal for each member to pai...

I feel like this is a bit of a breakthrough painting, even though there some questionable parts... It was great to play with the compositio...

Still on the full/empty theme: if "all things are understood by means of comparison", then can the painting be made to work with ...

Another grocery store adventure: there are two kinds of chayote squash apparently, the smooth green one and then the other one, just the sa...

This is the 1812 Overture of Radishes, with all canons blazing.