Welcome

This is an online gallery featuring landscape paintings, line-art cartoons, illustrative graphics and other art by John Townes. Thanks for visiting. I enjoy working in different styles so you’ll find variety inside, from traditional landscapes to goofy cartoons. I hope you’ll wander through the pages and explore. Your general comments or questions or purchase inquiries are welcomed through the Contact page.

Photo-Free Zone — No photographs were captured or harmed in the making of these images. They were created by hand with a combination of traditional and digital methods.(Details.)

Navigation

This site is organized into Galleries by style and subject. You can go to Section Pages from top menu, and enter individual Galleries through image links there.. OR you can click on links and thumbnails for individual Galleries at the bottom of the pages. Inside a Gallery, click on thumbnails for a full size image.

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Painting With Pixels

I use the term “digital painting” instead of “digital art” to describe that aspect of the art I do, because no photographs were captured or harmed in the making of these images. When you tell people an image is “digital art” they often have a common reaction…“Oh, where did you take the photograph?’ That’s because digital art is associated with Continue Reading

Prints Available

Custom prints of the art on this website are available for purchase. For information on prices, sizes and options, contact me by e-mail via the Contact page.

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About the Landscapes

The landscapes depict the region that includes Berkshire County in western Massachusetts and the adjacent Hudson River Valley of New York state. They start as sketches of actual locations. As I paint, I do make alterations to emphasize a mood, feeling and sense of place. So, the finished painting does not exactly reproduce the details of the original location, but hopefully sense of it, and qualities that are shared in many other regions.