Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

5 inches square oil on panel I am working on a larger painting and I'm scared. It's going pretty well, actually, but I get ...

6x8 oil on panel Some fun must be had between the slogging bits. Meat is as much fun to paint as pastry and less dangerous.  ...

8x6 inches, oil on panel This is an important thing I have learned during this stint with the Russian painters:  get a base layer ...

This is a fellow painter in my class. I took photos of anybody who would let me do it, everybody wincing. Harsh light from the top is th...

8x10 inches oil on panel I have been painting like mad but not posting because I have been taking painting classes and doing exercises...

8x6 inches, oil on panel This is a commission executed during my Russian Period, under the influence of the Russian instructors  in th...

9x12 oil on canvas Because I am taking a class from a figure drawing association where they teach you how to draw and paint like Rembr...

14 x 16 inches, oil on canvas Here they are, the Pomeranian Twins.  This is the latest addition to the crew of dogs rescued by the Dal...

16 x20 inches, charcoal on butcher paper This is another go with the Natrim charcoal. It did not stay up on the surface on this paper a...

oil on canvas, 10 inches square I have painted 13 or 14 dogs belonging to a couple in Dallas, and this is a new one in the gang. They c...

20x16 inches, charcoal on paper This is the first of my efforts with the Natrim charcoal, expensive Italian charcoal in long squared o...

8x6" oil on panel OK, back in the saddle after the Christmas frenzy. I am involved now in two outside activities, a drop in life d...

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...