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.

Shop link related to this piece:

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  Woman in a Green Dress, Giclee Art Print
  $85
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This portrait really had me thinking about the size of my painting surface, as I had plans to do a figure study that was panned out more than this final result. I realized pretty quickly after I started that I had painted too large and couldn’t fit the entire subject. But I liked how it started and decided to keep rolling. I like the final result a lot, but can’t help but wonder what it could have looked like on a large canvass.

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 video features a painting I really like, but also one that made me realize that I need to start painting on larger surfaces. I had plans for a figure study that showed a bigger scene and more of the subject, but I just didn’t have space for it. The portrait is a partial figure study of a woman in a green dress leaning and is my 227th total oil painting. The video discussion is about 6 minutes, and is similar to some of the others I’ve done (also linked after the timestamps).