Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

This painting is for a jam jar label.  There are I think 8 jams, each one better than the next, as I was sent a box of them to try.  This...

This is one of those no neck guys, and he was actually quite trim. Last night in my painting group one of the really good painters let m...

This was painted from a photo I took from an iPhone, I think the first picture I ever took from one. I was sitting on the bed in a hotel ...

Happy belated birthday to Jill W. with love.

Um...been a while since I posted, but I have been painting and reading and organizing my wits.  Nothing much seemed post-able, so I stepp...

These are not glam super market peaches, but free peaches from a neighbor's tree. Problems are the same though, and they are, as my...

Peach interregnum.  These cherries are in an origami box made from gold cardboard.

I guess ----- the top one is under exposed, because the peaches are really on a white cloth, and yet, against the second one, on blac...

I am trying to find  a new way, a different way to put the paint down.  I don't know what way this is, I just need a form I am famili...

Something cooler.

I set this up on purpose with everything darkish and hot, just to explore.

I swear the  darks on these peaches are so deep a red/brown that they are almost black. And here is a link to a story about Robert Raus...

I have a slew of these peach studies coming.  They are not very thrilling, just some of the requisite slogging necessary for progress. ...

This is the head of one of my favorite models, a boxer. She is overwhelmingly majestic.  I did this in a class with Jennifer Balkan, ano...

This is a little worried Chihuahua sitting on a wildly patterned couch. And -- he is sort of smiling. Impossible to resist painting it,...

This is a real mugshot from a Florida jail.  I thought this boy was so beautiful. I have painted him before, but still....I always think...

OOOOH, I have been computerless for some time, odd how everything becomes so quiet when your computer isn't working, like the world ...

I just felt like a Zombie.

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...