This is a free personal web gallery of paintings and other art, cartoons and graphics by John Townes. I like to work in different styles, so you'll find an eclectic mix here, including paintings, drawings, digital doodling and more. I hope you'll roam around a bit and find something of interest.Comments, questions and other feedback are welcome via the E-mail or Guestbook links. Thanks for stopping by.
The images in this website were created with a variety of techniques, including traditional and digital painting and and drawing. Unless otherwise noted, all of the images were created from scratch, without the use of photos or other pre-fabricated elements.
The landscapes are based on the corner of the world known as Berkshire County in western Massachusetts and the adjacent Hudson River Valley of upstate New York. The landscape in this region is both unique and universal, and its visual moods change frequently depending on the season, the weather and the time of day
The website is divided into Sections by style or subject. The Sections contain individual Galleries. Within an open gallery, the pictures will advance automatically So you can sit back and give your mouse-finger a rest.
You can advance pictures manually by either left-clicking inside the image or click on its thumbnail. (To stop the slide show, click on the "Pause Slide Show" icon in the top left corner of the open gallery.)
About that Banana...You'll notice a little banana drop onto the screen while a gallery is loading. That's the logo of the software I use to display the pictures, called "BananaAlbum." Aside from the banana, it's one of the best programns I've found to display pictures on the web (so I figured it's worth it to put up with the banana)...It's a free program used in conjunction with JAlbum. For information visit the program's website, at bananalbum.com
