Jean Townsend's Daily Painting

Happy New Year ! May Leonard Cohen be resting in the arms of angels... and -- "May peace and peace and peace be everywhere...

Another year under the belt.  These are my offering to the drawing group Christmas bash, at which there are multiple models to draw from...

Although I have not posted at all since May I have been painting consistently but wiping most of them.  This one though is a commission ...

This one was touch and go. A.had just got a bad haircut and was very upset, crying, and her nose and eyes were red and swollen. I was ...

This is the nicest guy ever, the guy you would want to be your lawyer if you HAD to have one. He attends  the same drop in life drawing ...

This is a second painting of an earlier photograph from 2 summers back, may not be the same pose, but same sitting. 4 Italian women too...

This started out in realism and finished itself in abstraction, my old home. I  have a thing about plates, dishes --- I love them. ...

Well, I have been doing a lot of painting but no posting because I have been taking a class with Joseph Todorovitch and learning new ...

I've done this motif several times, trying to work my way through it, to learn about the space, color, landscape (aaaugh!) ...

This was a quick sketch at the end of the day.  I used big brushes and lots of paint and medium and worked like a house afire and did n...

Royal Icing on sugar cookie dough. 2.5x1.5 inches

As soon as I saw this man I was beside myself to have his photograph. He graciously agreed to pose. I have another shot of him smiling b...

I got overwrought on a portrait and had to stop and do something fun, or else cut everything up with a chain saw and be done. Hence, thi...

This is 8 x 10 or so, oil on board.  His skin was so colorful, pearlescent.  And there was such sweetness in his face. It is difficult f...

This is the second painting of a boy/man in a painting class I took last year. He was indifferent to everything that went on, never brou...

Again, 10 x 14 inches, trying to work quickly and state the obvious facts with strength and then not weaken them with futzing, to make a...

This is about 10 x 14 inches, on Italian linen sheets that are gessoed, all in a pad. Much superior to the American ones, easy to work w...

With Maria Lassnig in my heart, I am soldiering on, looking for a way to use color differently and also psychological acumen rather than...

I have another jam jar label to do a painting for, so I have done a couple of warm ups. In Italy when the season is finished for somethi...

Buonasera -- I'm working in Italy in not optimal conditions, but who cares, que sera, sera... My real camera is not working so I h...

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...