Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

5x7 oil on panel Black and white I  do love a good nose shot. I just can't resist it. Noses are so complicated and interesting, s...

5x7 inches oil on panel Black and white This one sort of ran to the grotesque as I was painting, and it was interesting to me, so I j...

5x7 inches oil on panel black and white Now I'm looking for photos that have a strong light and dark pattern, so at least I...

4x5 inches oil on panel, black and white I might be in trouble when I have to turn all these in and submit to the scrutiny of The Rus...

5x7 inches, oil on panel black and white Yikes! On this one I kept at too long and lost my planes - Will try for deftness and brevity o...

5 inches square oil on panel, black and white This baby I have painted so many times I have stopped counting them because it is so depr...

6 inches square, oil on panel So --- I'm taking a class, a tonal painting class, taught by a robust and opinionated Russian (who w...

8x8 inches oil on linen panel This one very fun to do and it went quickly. I am not lingering, just trying to get it done, and then an...

8x8 inches, oil on panel Back in the USA, have gathered wits,  set up a new studio, made a dress out of a bean bag, etc., and here I a...

I have stolen/appropriated/lifted this idea from Ellen Heck and her Forty Fridas (please Google, they are so lovely). This is how it came...

I been painting hard and happily, very proud of myself. Two weeks and my time in Italy is over. I've  been having to wipe lots of th...

This is sort of the same stricken expression as the dog in the previous painting. I once had a student (You know who you are!) who made a...

This sweet dog was afraid of me and the camera. She is a timid dog anyway, so there wasn't going to be a happy pose...but this one w...

These  two plums are from a little tree very near to the exact coordinates of the spot my father landed in Italy when he parachuted out o...

Actually, it's not quite this red.... and the red is not uniform. Again, the camera. I am out of reading material (AAAUGH!) so I a...

I had only an 8x6 panel to work on and wanted to do a string of the apricots, those that were not too badly decomposed. I like that f...

The apricots are in season here so there are mountains of them in the green grocers. My Italian family is making jam  from the trees on t...

Today was a good painting day -- and yesterday was also, although only one quarter of yesterday's painting was worth anything, but t...

These are little do-nut peaches, I don't know what the real name is for them. They are flat and fleshy, and with leaves still on the...

These are Italian plums (prunes) from the market next door, and the pillowcase from my bed. And THIS is a little frittata ...

Been painting hard every day, but everything, um, terrible. This is best of the lot. Will persist, and in the meantime have double scoo...

I'm rolling along here, not flipping out about small stuff, just trying to get a good routine going without too much crushing self...

ok well....Some how I wiped 15 years off my age. Possibly more. Also, I am wrestling with lighting issues in my Italian bathroom studio. ...

Buongiorno! For reasons too magnificent, complicated  and surprising to state here, I am posting from Italy where I will be living ...

Oi vey. I had a longer interregnum than I thought, but now I am back in the saddle. Painting feels like I am on a runaway train, can...

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...