Kathryn Townsend Painting Studio: 12 x 12

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Friday, June 3, 2016

Canyonlands Sky

"Canyonlands Sky", 10 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board

The colors of Utah are so different from the colors of Western Washington. Driving home this evening about 9 pm after sundown, the snow on Mt. Rainier a warm shadow, the clouds a brilliant pink orange, the Nisqually Delta a green from some other lifetime, I thought to myself what a beautiful place to live. It is all part of one system--the Nisqually flowing into Puget Sound originates on the glacier at some 14,000 feet, not so very far away as the crow flies.

NFS

Friday, July 31, 2015

Roses with Orange - SOLD

"Roses with Orange", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board

Another painting from my recent "roses" obsession.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Roses with Orange

"Roses with Orange", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board

With this painting and with the warm weather, when I'm in my studio that means the back deck! So nice to have my silk roses that never die!

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Pot with Orange

I love to paint on a square canvas--there are so many possibilities for graphic design.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Still Life with Oranges

"Still Life with Oranges", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
I'm always glad to get back to the still life. It is no less a challenge than a portrait, but I can more easily dismiss the battle with the mind and its seemingly incurable determination to exactly capture the proportions of every nuance of the model. You can basically do what you want with flowers and oranges and vases.

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Monday, February 4, 2013

After the Rain - SOLD

"After the Rain", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another older painting, done in 2005. It won an award at a show. It certainly represents the weather these days in the Pacific Northwest. My husband and I drove up to Paradise on Mt. Rainier yesterday and hiked with our snow attachments for our boots through dense fog (luckily many had gone before us), maybe to around 6200 feet elevation from 5400 at the lodge which was covered in snow up to the second story windows. The fog miraculously stayed at the lower level and a perfect view of Mt. Rainier was just before us. We could even see Mt. Adams for a moment above the clouds and fog.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Three Apples - SOLD

"Three Apples", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
Here I am, back to the red roses and this time, three apples.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Zangle Rainy Day -- ON HOLD

"Zangle Rainy Day", 12 x 12 In, Raymar Panel
Once again, I looked out the window and could not resist. There are so many moods of the Cove.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Red Roses with Apples -- SOLD

"Red Roses with Apples", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
A variation of the red roses with apples--I did several of these from similar setups.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Still Life with Apples - SOLD

"Still Life with Apples", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel
Sometimes I set up a still life and paint it more than once. It's an opportunity to get out of my own mindset or to experiment with one particular thing.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Roses and Apple - SOLD

"Roses and Apple", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
I am painting these roses over and over. I am drawn to it, just as I am drawn to painting Zangle Cove over and over. Sometimes I think it is a kind of laziness, but I recently read from some well-known artist that its good to do the same scene or set-up over and over. I've read that some artists will do the exact same set-up more than once during the day, making each subsequent painting of shorter duration time.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Red Roses - Sold

"Red Roses", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
Maybe you have noticed that I am not posting paintings so often. I am giving myself time to work with larger canvases, to experiment more, to think about and rework some of the paintings and sometimes to throw them in the dust bin. I still paint almost every day, but I am just going about it a little differently.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

White Roses - SOLD

"White Roses", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel SOLD
This is another painting in my series of still life flowers.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Lilacs

"Lilacs", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another still life painted under the skylight in the studio because of the not so good weather outside.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

White Kettle with Apples

"White Kettle with Apples", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel
This painting was an exercise with Carol Marine's latest challenge--to paint every brush stroke with a different color. I love this exercise, partly because when I first start a painting this is frequently how I approach it anyway, though I never thought about it before. But what I discovered is that after the initial lay-in, I get lazy, and that's where the rule to load the brush with a different color makes all the difference.

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Monday, February 28, 2011

White Flowers with Apples

"White Flowers with Apples", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
The daily painting blog is strange. It is so motivating related to getting into the studio with brush in hand every possible day. But it also feels risky sometimes, because the daily painter, at least to a certain extent, lays it all out there. That's why I put the quote from George Bernard Shaw at the top of my blog and why I keep remembering it because being on the risky side of things is in the end, a better learning place than the safe side of things. Sometimes I want to finish the painting less and not worry about it. Sometimes I want to use big sloppy brushstrokes and not think about it. This painting was mainly a result of "6 x 6" size fatigue. Its "12 x 12", four times bigger, but in the scheme of things, still pretty small.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Pots with Green Apple - SOLD

"Pots with Green Apple", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel
I am thinking about the end of January, for me the longest month in the year. It is the only month that the guy who mows my lawn gets to do something else, like mulching, because in the Pacific Northwest it is the only month that the grass doesn't really grow. I'm looking forward to the small indications of spring that February brings.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Red Pitcher

"Red Pitcher", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Museum Board
Maybe its appropriate that after my comments about brushwork, I next watched Peggi's DVD about palette knife painting! The lesson is actually about edges and I liked it so much I watched twice so that I wouldn't miss anything. Since I rarely use a palette knife to paint with, this exercise is a lot of fun with many new things to practice and think about. Just like a big brush, a palette knife delivers the mind from obsessing about detail.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Four Pots

"Four Pots", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel
In this painting I am not using a limited palette, but still trying to apply the logic of Peggi's exercises having to do with warms and cools related to lights and darks. In the past I've mostly operated on the principle of "painting what I see", but to become more sophisticated in design, I think its necessary to understand and apply aesthetic logic. The interesting thing, of course, is that colors are relatively cooler or warmer in relationship to each other, so it is an exercise that both expands the mind and the process of seeing.

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Monday, December 6, 2010

White Pitcher with Apple

"White Pitcher with Apple", 12 x 12 In, Oil on Panel

About the Picasso exhibit:
Next to Picasso's work, most contemporary painting seems innocuous, pale and pretty. But that doesn't mean I liked all of his work. There were some works I really liked, including the small portraits of Dora Maar--these were paintings I wouldn't mind having in my house. Picasso apparently painted "classical" paintings when he was around 13 years old, but it didn't take long to give that up. He lived through two world wars and had many relationships, so much of the imagery is not surprising. It would appear that there was not a bone in his body that attempted to please anybody--and maybe that is the most attractive thing about the work for an artist. There is a power in the images and the execution that you just don't see in most current art. The exhibition is definitely worth seeing.

In contrast, see Scott Burdick's YouTube video, "The Banishment of Beauty", which though it is an interesting perspective, seems to have a hint of sour grapes about it. If you've seen the Picasso exhibit, let me know what you think!

Robert Genn's article on the SAM Picasso exhibit includes many different and varied comments.

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