Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

Still wrestling with camera, but hopeful, I can see that the camera will do what I want it to do, just a matter of learning how to set it u...

First, these are the fattest radishes I have ever seen. Practically the size of eggs. And they have lots of pink in them, however, I am usi...

Peonies gone, so I cut the first zinnias from my little garden. They are all a little stunted but still brave.

Playing.

I'm pretty relaxed about this because I'm in the pilgrim mode. This is what I have decided about the flower part: it should be fig...

I sprang for some peonies. They are my most favorite flower, raggedly beautiful and the fragrance has not been bred out of them. However, I...

Today was a quiet day after the melee of the pet painting group, I have to collect my wits.

We had another pet painting class this afternoon at the Humane Society of Williamson County in Leander, Texas. I'm so proud of them! T...

Fleurs from my garden. We have no rain, so they are all scraggly.

I was playing with the tying to the edge idea again. Also, I wanted to make the back part of the painting tip forward by using white in th...

Howard Hodgkin is so much more brutal than this little still life, but this is his direction. His paint does not describe anything either. ...

A quickie painting. My first one, which was an attempt at Hodgkin inspired abstract realism, went the way of all flesh.

OK, now I'm sick of the whole thing, but before I left this subject I wanted to use the wrought iron work that was in the background of...

First, thank you everyone for such funny and kind comments on the last painting. I had this brainstorm that if I whited up my face it might...

And it does, too.

Well, I was selected for the jury as I expected and we had the whole thing finished by lunch, which left the afternoon, so I had some time t...

A little study. Tomorrow - jury duty.

This is another one of the lucky medical rehab dogs, my favorite of all nine of them.

Hooray, good to be posting again. I have been working on a larger painting, lots of scraping down and re-doing, but I think I'm out of ...

Big brush, harsh light, simple forms in this one, the object was to find a way to knit the forms together into a painting. I like the word ...

I shot this little girl at a playground. She looked so anxious and had all the signs of depraved living -- circles under her eyes, pale gra...

Little Camille is a rescue animal for a family in Dallas. They find animals who have terrible health problems and give them first class me...

The top painting was the last painting in the Jennifer Balkan class, and I used all my new skills and mojo in it. It was a 45 minute pose...

Bwa - ha -ha! I am getting it! I know I have done a little Peggi Kroll Roberts painting here, and I am proud to say it. The second painti...

I am still doing value studies, also trying to use ultra saturated color. Last class with Jennifer Balkan tonight, I'm certain I will be...

Another value study. I have new geraniums and I chose them because they are almost black and I figured they would be an unusual dark in a p...

A value study a la Peggi Kroll Roberts. More practice.

Saturday I taught a Paint Your Pet class at the Williamson County Humane Society, a no kill privately funded shelter that has adoption servi...

Last night in Jennifer Balkan's class we did more value studies with a model and I was much better, to my delight. Initially I was havin...

Another head study, this time on a small board, 8 inches square. I have a terrifically hard time doing anything that is not life size, it i...