Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

So, it's Christmas already.  Dog commissions due.  I read an interesting quote this week: "Do not hurry. Do not rest."  Go...

Just a little break from those tough babies...maybe good to do one painting that is a stretch and one that is simply fun.  This donut is ...

On the last two babies I used a winsor red/viridian combination for the basic dark out of which I worked all the other flesh tones. In th...

Same deal with this one, fast and as direct as I could make it.  I was more aware in this one of the vast and subtle range of half tones...

This was quicker and more fun and resulted in more muscular painting.  It takes the pwessure off if I think I am going to do it fast and ...

I have recently acquired new progeny. It's fun to paint these mashed heads. I was allowed to be in the delivery room so I could get ...

He looks so mournful because he has - as everyone eventually develops in Texas - allergies. This makes for lots of pink and red around t...

I went to the Meadows Museum in Dallas to see the Velazquez show. There were only a few paintings,  I think the show specified they were ...

These two  were done about a week apart, the top one done today.  I think his face is really as long as it is in the lower one, but I cou...

I am holding the camera out in front of myself, thinking and figuring in my head what the light will do, etc.  Not being cynical.  I ...

I have been working and reworking the same painting for the last three days and just cannot get it, so I have wiped it one last time and ...

Again, the big brush for as much as I could do.  Also, I tried to get as much pigment into the skin as possible. I notice that when I a...

This is one of the rescue dogs belonging to my student, who is painting her animals.  This photo was in the studio and I couldn't res...

In this painting I used the big bristle brush for the first 3/4 of it.  It won't let me get specific and forces me to address the ma...

Top painting is the last of the Farm Girl Jam Labels, Blackberry Jam. Below is the amazing painting of a current student.  This noble ...

Pomegranate Jam Jar Label.  Do know know why the printer has redirected this copy and centered everything, Hal has obviously taken ov...

Multiple tries on these. I find them tough to paint.  First they are velvety, so they present no highlight, which helps more than I real...

This is a painting I did to enter a show in Charlotte, N. C. that will be up during the  Democratic Convention. I think it is to be held...

Farm Girl Jam:  Olallieberries!  I'm not certain how this differs in taste from the boysenberry and the blackberry as I didn't g...

Farm Girl Jam label, boysenberries.

Another Farm Girl jam label, Pomegranate Jalapeño.

Oy vey, it photographed a bit dark.  This is for Farmgirl or Farm Girl, I will have to check.  I think this product is coming out in the...

This is the label for fig jam.  The brand is Farmgirl, coming soon out of California.

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...