Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

This is the final painting, done on a 6x8 2inch cradled panel, (for non painters, it's like a shallow box, 6x8x2 inches, open on the bac...

I have been painting back lit subjects for a while as practice for the one above. This is the first shot and it went pretty easily. Also it...

I don't know why they saw the feet in half...I tried matching up halves of the feet to make a whole foot, but the cuts occurred at diffe...

Another small one because I don't have a block of time today for a mug shot. These are pig's feet, which I remember my father eatin...

I am taking a tiny break from the mugshots to do a fun painting, slightly more restful... I did a quick practice on one shrimp yesterday an...

This person might really be a musician even though he looks like a serial killer in this painting. I have discovered how to use a small bris...

I am practicing painting flesh in deep shadow, those elusive values. Tormenting.

This possible family member has always been enraptured with color, so I tried to use as much of it as I could. It is more colorful than thi...

This painting does not capture the person at all and the color is not exciting as her color was in real life, however, it is the best ear I ...

This must speak for itself.

This is a commissioned painting to be part of a banner for the New York Times best selling author, Susan Mallery. It will be part of her we...

This one was really hard. I tried it twice, this is the better of the two. The majority of the face was in shadow, but the skin was all p...

OK, back in the saddle. Returned from frolicking and resettled into the routine. While I was away I terrorized my family members, pleading...

Still more wiping...full moon I hear. This is the last of 4- 30 minute paintings from the painting group, first 3 really unspeakably bad and...

I have had a whole week of wiping paintings! Not too upsetting though -- I am trying to do something new, a new way of using color, so this...

I have been working hard on another project this week and there's nothing much to post.... but here is a study from my painting session ...

I am now in the second half of Jennifer Balkan's class and we are doing color mixing, then doing a painting with the mix. So far we hav...

This is an honorary daughter who came for a visit and succumbed to the purifying mask. Also, I want to thank all of you for your generous co...

This is a mugshot of a good friend. I am thinking I have to shift out of the criminal element because their photos are so terrible, bad lig...

This guy had a very high creep factor.

Ah, testosterone. You can see it at work. I admit I was in a rapture working on this nose, It was so --- there, such a fleshy anchor fo...

This is the big one I have been working on, it is 40 inches square and was commissioned for a spa in Kansas City. I was initially planning ...

Another day in the barrel, so here is yet another painting by a painter I like very much.

Still working on the big painting. In the meantime, here is another painter's work I greatly admire: Mieke Tierlinck, Dutch. She paint...

I am working on a large painting and so have nothing completed to post, but here is a painting by one of my favorite painters, Lucian Freud....

Down to the last two peppers. Another wave of family came through and we went to the ACL festival in Austin, so now I am recuperating and g...

On this one I tried some color things.... mostly green, a bit of red. On the next one I did mostly red, bit of green. This is along the li...

This is all that is left in the fridge after a wild family weekend. Also, it is a practice painting for the 2 Moleskin journals which I hav...

I had just a bit of time in the studio today because I have family about to visit and I had to stuff everything under the bed and clean the ...