Favorites
A randomly generated selection of 20 of the artist’s favorites . You could consider it a “best of” page.
Sneezing Lady (or Maybe Crying? Yawning?) (5/6/2018) - As I was browsing around a few days ago, I came across this article about how to approach handshakes at work when someone (client, business associate, etc.) is sick.… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Oil Painting Portrait of My Wife (10/29/2022) - Lately I've been discussing my recent journey into the world of oil painting, having shared my first attempt, a portrait of my kids, and an effort to use up… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
A Longtime Friend’s Wedding Portrait (5/27/2022) - I am often slightly backlogged on writing blog posts. It's something that I've mentioned previously and is probably fairly common for many artists who write about what they do.… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Elden Ring Spirit Ash Drawing (3/25/2022) - I thought I had sufficiently scratched the Elden Ring artwork itch with a couple of drawings I shared last week, but apparently that is not the case! I was… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Mike Patton Portrait Oil Painting (5/19/2023) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cnr2ybHhDTP/ Mike Patton, oil on paper. The subject of this post is an oil painting I did of my all-time favorite musician Mike Patton. Patton is a man of… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
More Parks and Recreation Art – Leslie Knope (1/29/2019) - Over the last week or so, I've been dealing with a fairly tough cold. As is usually the case, the kids and I all got sick, while my wife's… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
New Home, New Desk, New Art (3/20/2021) - Well, it took quite a bit longer than I anticipated, but it seems things are finally settling down for me and my family. Last year, we started the ball… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Freehand Painting Goals (11/23/2022) - A couple of specific things are at the forefront of my mind right now when it comes to painting. The first is that, in a general sense, I need… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
High Contrast Challenge – Antje Traue Portrait (11/9/2022) - As I continue on clearing my backlog of paintings that have yet to be shared, now I've come to the fourth of five paintings done during a holiday weekend… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
By Request, Frozen’s Anna and Elsa (4/9/2020) - Like so many parents, we're doing our best to keep the little ones busy as well as ourselves. In an effort to keep myself busy, I recently wrote, illustrated,… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Drawing from Unsplash Photos (5/10/2019) - My free time has been pretty well monopolized recently, first with writing a book, and then with figuring out the ins-and-outs of independent publishing. Now that the book is… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Elden Ring Malenia Radahn Artwork (4/11/2022) - Apparently Amdall Gallery is turning into an Elden Ring fanart site, because I just couldn’t move on yet without getting into some of the interesting bosses (also called “demigods”… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Jon Stewart Getting Things Done (8/10/2019) - I generally try to avoid wading into the political on Amdall Gallery. I've done it occasionally in the past, like my discussions and data analysis on mass shootings. But… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Geralt and Ciri Art From The Witcher Netflix Show (1/1/2022) - Recently, season two of Netflix's The Witcher series debuted. Back in the summer lock-down months of 2020, I wrote a bit about my impressions from season one and my… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Princess Bride Part 3 – Westley and Buttercup in the Fireswamp (5/21/2021) - Where does the time go? It seems like I ask myself that a lot. It's probably on my mind so much lately because I'm rapidly approaching four decades of… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Poll: How do you digitize your artwork? (12/5/2022) - https://poll.fm/11253040 Buried at the end of my last post, I posed the question, “How do you digitize your artwork?” I embedded a crowdsignal poll with some options that came… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Tribute to Dragon’s Dogma, My Favorite Game (5/27/2018) - There will be some spoilers, so be warned. If you're just here for art, scroll to the end. This is a game mostly about the "ever-turning wheel," and how… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Almost a Sketch Request, Sam Carrying Frodo (4/20/2018) - In the comments of an Instagram post I made on my last sketch (Fezzik and Inigo from the Princess Bride), one of my longtime friends responded with "Sam and… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Second Healthcare Worker Drawing (10/11/2020) - Way back in April (which feels like it was years ago now somehow), there was a healthcare worker "portraits for heroes" thing going around on social media. The gist… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)
Art Show Entry, Dallas OAC ART214 Exhibition (2/3/2022) - One of my New Year's resolutions for 2022, in addition to the usual "eat better" and "get more exercise" items, has been to enter a drawing into an art… (click to read more of this randomly selected old favorite)