Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

In this one I used a purple/yellow palette as opposed to yesterday's red/green.  By this I mean, I mixed a large amount of winsor re...

I am in another short Jennifer Balkan class and we are working mighty hard on those values again. This time I blocked in all the dark ar...

4 values and the dark light ratio: 2/3 dark and 1/3 light. So interesting that you can get a metallic feel (the prongs on the plug) wi...

A cautionary tale, this little one.  THEY say, you should have a ratio of 1/3 : 2/3, light to dark or however you want to divide it, but ...

I gave some thought to  the traveling rhythm of an elongated horizontal composition, how the forms would touch and separate - it's a ...

I went back to look at Liz Wiltzen's explanation of these exercises and just as I suspected, I was missing an important element, the ...

Above is a mugshot of a mad baby, below is the value study for today.

The first painting is another mugshot in which I concentrated on stating the values as  strongly as I saw them -...

This has been unexpectedly interesting. The still life above had very little white in it and I felt a little panicked at how I was going to...

The top painting is a mugshot that I set up myself with strong lighting so I didn't have that police glare flattening out all the forms ...

Ai yi yi, the values, the values. I set this up in a close color range with lots of shadow to work on this issue. Color complicates value....

It's really fun to get a riff going on an image, makes you want to see how many ways you can do it. These bluebonnets are a little stra...

The bluebonnets are on the wane here, only a few left and those look exhausted. I admit to poaching the yellow flower from the library beds...

I kept this one in all grays and slathered on the paint again.

I put these daisies up on a brick to get them at eye level. Even thicker paint on these, slabs of paint!

Another daisy study, this time using really really thick paint.

Here is my first shot at daisies. There are so many parts to it and so many whites! I have to learn how best to consolidate the info.

This is the second go at this portrait - thinking Queen Mariana the whole time I was painting.

This one, not so weird....I kept it to all blue and some form of blue as much as possible. It was a good color exercise and I also kept th...

Ai yi yi. It's blue bonnet time again, and they must be painted. So I tried some more robust color combinations and crammed all the wil...

This is another good model. She is absolutely perfectly still, AND she remains smiling the entire pose. Also, she has a very distinctive e...

This is a commissioned piece for another birthday present.

I have had this photo for awhile, thinking how I would go at it, than finally I had the idea. I didn't want it to be prettified or babi...

This is a little painting for the birthday of my friend and neighbor, Larry, who grows loverly flowers and then he and his wife let me have ...

This was a straight forward attempt to just get a likeness! I finally got it though after a few wipe downs. Mostly the likeness just appea...

Another go at the fish oil bottle. I set this up as a color problem also, using the complement of blue, orange, and an analogous color to ...

This blue bottle is the fish oil bottle I have been saving to paint, and I've been looking at in the studio for a few weeks, thinking, ...

This is a raw chicken leg, but the lights... they sort of cook it as you go. This makes for much more interesting colors in the flesh, but ...

One more black pansy -- I had a smallish block of time for painting today, and so another little one.

This is a plant brought back from the dead. I have been trying to get to it to paint before it got any more complicated. Those pink heads ...