Amdall Gallery

The subject of this post is another figure study on 12 x 12 oil paper. I’ll follow my standard format here, which is to share an image of the painting, the Instagram time lapse, and some verbiage specific to the piece. Then, I’ll embed the YouTube discussion video, including another brief writeup on the topic, materials used, and some other hopefully useful information. I’ll wrap the post up by sharing the YT Shorts time lapse and some other similar painting videos.

These square paintings aren’t so easy to convert to vertical video, and unfortunately I had to crop out the horse on this one. Still though, I think this scene turned out nicely. The main subject came together exactly as planned and the background figures worked out as well. I can’t always get the oil paints to behave as I want, but it’s fun when it does come together like this.

Here are the details of the discussion video I shared on YouTube, including materials used and some other information. I’ll also embed the Shorts video, although it’s kind of redundant to the Instagram Reels post, as I typically just share the same edited vertical time lapse on both platforms.

This is a start to finish walkthrough of my oil painting portrait process, mostly touching on some positives from this particular experience. The scene is a figure study with a farm landscape (including my first horse attempt) and is my 207th total oil painting. I’ll try to timestamp some of the overall topics below. The walkthrough is about 13 minutes total, and is similar to some of the others I’ve done (also linked after the timestamps).

Timestamps:

• 01:25 Color Shapes and Mixing
• 04:20 Impressionism and Background
• 09:02 Finishing Paintings
• 10:56 “Good” Portraits

Materials Used:

• 🖼️ Paper: https://amzn.to/3BzYiNy
• 🖌️ Brush Set: https://amzn.to/4elQgdt
• 🎨 Gamblin Paints: https://amzn.to/3XnoDZA
• 🎨 Utrecht Paints: https://amzn.to/3OoTHnx
• 📷 Tripod: https://amzn.to/4gLI4EU
• 🦾 Adjustable arm: https://amzn.to/325FJ6c
• 🎨 Blick Oil Paints

Colors Used:

• ⬛️ Raw Umber (Gamblin 1980)
• ⬜️ Titanium White (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟨 Yellow Ochre (Gamblin 1980)
• 🟨 Cadmium Yellow (Gamblin 1980)
• 🟥 Cadmium Red Hue (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟥 Alizarin Crimson (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟧 Blush (Gamblin 1980)
• 🟫 Burnt Umber (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟫 Burnt Sienna (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟦 Ultramarine Blue (Utrecht Studio)
• 🟩 Sap Green (Utrecht Studio)

🎨 Here are some other painting walkthroughs:

• 20 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa2XyGk00Ww
• 18 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NKNdHddq7I
• 15 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxklXKNByk
• 15 Minute Oil Painting (2nd One): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWq0x2G_h0w
• 13 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIhm_d5iFY
• 12 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1joDDyr4cQ
• 10 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmtksp162o
• 10 Minute Oil Painting (2nd One): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z12VxpUmcr0
• 9 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJf94OLujlk
• 8 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX0xU2h7mA
• 5 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPOdem0Res
• 2 Minute Oil Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xXuNQ3sYXQ

✏️ Here are some pencil drawing videos:

• 10 Minute Pencil Drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDrrZ_-6ak
• 4 Minute Pencil Drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEtH32_SXk
• Sketching Evolving from Painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHjom6wEV4
• Pencil Oil Paint Compared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HY1cZxDUnU
• Colored Pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFNrrZtI18