Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

Found this hibiscus-like flower in a hedge on the way to the Asian Grill and Donut Shop early this morning.  I used my green thrift sto...

Boy o boy, thanks for the kind comments. Props a girl up. Today I made it to Lowe's and back without killing anybody or getting lost....

Yo. Made it to LA. Am working temporarily in a dark place (physically, not noir-ish) and so have bought a $35 LED bulb. Noon light!  Bu...

These paintings will be used on the labels for Farm Girl Orange Marmalade and Red Pepper Relish. (All these products, delicious.) Am...

This time I tried more color. I'm working the flowers first because they jump all over the place like tulips, then doing moving stuf...

I've got two done, so happy .....  getting an hour here and there in between crises.  Sometimes it's just enough to be painting!

Been gone so long. I am in the middle of moving from Texas to Los Angeles, and oh, moving is hellish. I stole a morning to paint the bl...

I currently have a student who is interested in painting African American celebrities, so we are working our way down a long list...

I have been so impressed with the paintings of bloggers who did the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. The paintings are very  interesti...

Looking at Freud regularly these days. It sort of puts you in a gray frame of mind. This one was more difficult than I expected, that c...

Ok, ok, it's NOT primitive. I used the term incorrectly.  I have long lamented that I CAN'T make a real primitive painting becaus...

I have been wrestling with this one for a while. The first one, smaller, I think 8 inches square, was a sort of quick practice to ...

OK, so this one is a present for the 40th birthday of the sitter who may or may not be a family member. I did it a million times trying ...

This one was fun to do, the straight gaze.   I photographed the live Scott in my studio with lights so I could control the amount of sh...

This is the resident (very vocal)  cat at the home I visited over Thanksgiving.  Many surfaces to address, glassiness, hard planes, soft...

Since I have always had small jittery terrier type dogs, greyhounds seem like ghost dogs, or maybe (not to imply death) angel dogs.  Vog...

Upper painting - Belle, an English bulldog I think. I tried this painting twice, the first time mostly grays and yellows and it d...

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...