Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

I painted this guy yesterday and it was a bust, but he is so beautiful I wanted to try to get him down if possible. It helped to have done...

This is Brianna's tag along brother. His mouth was really that red. Tomorrow it is back to the criminals. Alleged criminals.

This is a mugshot of my neighbor's grandchild. I like this kid a lot, she is smart and really present and interested when you talk to h...

This painting is for a banner project for the city of Georgetown, Texas. For the last couple of years they have invited artists to design b...

I have been tagged by Lorraine Shirkus to list paintings in the following categories. It was a great exercise to go back through the work ...

This guy's hair was truly this big.

This guy had such an unbelievably long face it was quite challenging to jam him into an 8 inch square. Since my own proportions are all sho...

I rarely see the crime listed with the mugshot, but this time I went to a criminal speciality, gang crimes, and found this guy. He was ...

In this one I used a huge flat brush for the most part, with some effort to find larger planes of color and get that down in minimum stokes...

This girl was cadaver pale. I actually got too much color in here, it was mousy grays everywhere. I will have another go at her soon.

Mug shot number 9.... This woman had unbelievable hair, flowing and shiny and soft looking.

A cautionary tale concerning hair color. She had her chin cocked way over, I think from disgust.

Just some flowers today. I had to wipe one of my alleged criminals but I will have a go at her tomorrow.

One more study on the aluminum foil and another mug shot.

First the study, this is my entry for the challenge at Some Texas Artists Like to Paint, the topic this month is Upside Down, which these re...

This is my first grapple with African American skin. For the first half hour or so of painting I was flying blind, no idea what to put toge...

Only this one today. I had to make peach pies to pay back favors and since it is as hot as the Congo here in central Texas I got started e...

This guy seemed very self possessed to me, very cool. Maybe a Scot, and they are both cool and wicked. He actually had on a plaid shirt, w...

The study again was quick and fluid. It helps to have another painting to get to that is the REAL painting, so this one doesn't count s...

I like getting the study done fast and out of the way - no obsessing, and I just try to get it down. And then, wiping! Very good. The secon...

OK, a really good painting day today, stress free and quick execution of everything, no agonia. Those mugshots are fascinating and hilarious...

Above the daily painting...camera issues still, the cloth is really black and in this all the yellows look like they are on fire. I will tr...

Today I only had time for a study, which mercifully, is taking less time to do every day. Something about an interruption in the routine of...

Still having some camera issues. There is quite a bit of blue in the bowl study but it disappeared in every shot. My SLR for Dummies has a...

Here is my study, arduous, and a little painting, fun, mostly.

For the past couple of days I have been doing lots of small studies of forms inside a bowl. This was the best one today, but I wiped everyt...

So....this is ever so slightly under exposed, but I am making progress with the Dslr camera. I have figured how to navigate within the vast...

Another one of the old medicine bottle, blacklit.

This is my late entry( hat theme) for the June challenge for Some Texas Artists Like to Paint. To see other people's entries, click her...

I got a painting done today AND I used the SLR camera and this shot is reasonably like the painting. I am not sure what I did right with th...