Random Selections
30 randomly selected articles from Amdall Gallery’s archives. Enjoy!
Custom Portrait Giveaway Winner (6/27/2018) - The second Amdall Gallery giveaway officially came to an end Tuesday night. There was only one prize this time - a custom portrait of the… Read More
The Challenge of a Close-up Family Scene (2/25/2018) - This is sort of a part two from my post Friday night about drawing my wife, and the challenges of art involving people you… Read More
Mr. Miyagi and Daniel from the Karate Kid (5/19/2018) - I've been home sick for a few days, and felt a bit like drawing...unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything, so I just lounged around instead.… Read More
In Memory of Javier Garcia (4/21/2022) - This post is written in memory of Javier Homero Garcia. Javier, my wife's father, recently passed away. We were fortunate that we were able to… Read More
Cryptocurrency Experiment – the Inevitable Crash, 6 Month Update (2/2/2018) - Well, here we are at the six month mark of this cryptocurrency experiment. Aside from half a year being a nice waypoint of time, there… Read More
Quiz time! (7/14/2011) - I just figured out another fun thing I can do (potentially), so let's see if it works. I created a very important quiz, housed in… Read More
Three Year Painting Anniversary (10/10/2025) - It's hard to believe it's already been three years since I started learning to paint! I first picked up a brush back in September 2022,… Read More
Ragamuffin Cat in a Basket Oil Painting (4/12/2025) - Although I mostly focus on portraits of people, I also practice animals occasionally. I’ve mostly painted dogs and cats, and the most frequent professional model… Read More
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,… Read More
Mass Shooting Data Update, Ideas to Reverse the Trend (2/21/2018) - This is going to be somewhat of a duplication of my post from October on mass shooting data, but with more recent numbers. After the… Read More
Pandemic Social Distancing Artwork (3/19/2020) - Writing about artwork during a global pandemic really isn't something I expected to be doing at all. Yet here we are in an escalating health… Read More
Dancing Dad – Drawing from a Video (11/12/2017) - A couple months ago, we took the family to North Park Mall in Dallas. While we wandered around, we came across a live song-and-dance thing… Read More
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… Read More
New Family Pet, a Ragamuffin Cat (9/19/2021) - Earlier this summer, our family finally made a much-discussed leap to adopt a little fur-ball. If I haven't already mentioned our new cat offhand in… Read More
Two Concurrent Sketches, Dad and the Girls (3/29/2018) - Welcome to part two of this reckless "drawing two things at once" series. Basically, I was so pumped up from feeling like I've actually been… Read More
Navigating Subtle Facial Expressions (7/14/2021) - In conversations with acquaintances, colleagues, and other various newly-met people, occasionally my drawing hobby comes up. Although not everyone is particularly interested in art, usually… Read More
Welcome to Flavortown (4/27/2019) - Is it Flavor Town or Flavortown? I'm actually not sure. Unfortunately, I don't know Guy Fieri, so I can't ask the Mayor of Flavortown about… Read More
New Kids Book ‘Robot Family Adventures’ (4/5/2020) - Apparently, the beginning of April is book publishing time! Last year, I released a book called Pencils and Process. That one took months to write,… Read MoreFederal Budget Graphics (Old Data) (8/13/2017) - I was going through some of my older spreadsheets and data sets, and came across some materials I put together based on a CNN online… Read More
Final Fantasy IV Painting | Rydia, Cecil, and a Chocobo (3/7/2026) - My latest classic game inspired painting features a couple of characters from Final Fantasy IV, Rydia and Cecil, sitting with a chocobo nearby. I've done… Read More
New Years 2023 Portrait Painting Giveaway (12/27/2022) - My last custom portrait giveaway was several months ago, but a lot has changed for me in the art realm since then. With previous giveaways,… Read More
Jon Amdall Self Portrait (5/24/2023) - It might be sort of weird how I'm phrasing this title - a "Jon Amdall Self Portrait"...painted by Jon Amdall...written by Jon Amdall. That's a… Read More
Full Portrait Walkthrough YouTube Video (1/1/2021) - In a couple of ways, I consider this post to be somewhat of a do-over. Months ago, I shared a YouTube video on my relatively… Read More
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… Read More
Big Kid and Her Apple (10/20/2018) - Wow, has it really been another entire month since I've drawn anything? Sort of a surprising realization, because it feels like I was just writing… Read More
Unfinished Art and an Unposed Portrait (9/9/2019) - I had to double check because it didn't seem possible, but it looks like it's been almost a month since my last drawing. Time really… Read More
Planning for a Larger Oil Painting (11/11/2025) - I don't typically plan much when I paint - I prefer just finding a reference or concept, throwing some textured paper onto my easel, and… Read More
Woman in Green Dress Oil Painting (12/2/2024) - 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… Read More
My Experience Wearing a Fitness Tracker for a Year (1/11/2018) - In late February 2017, I started wearing a fitness tracking band. I bought a Fitbit Charge 2 HR, which tracks all sorts of wonderful bits… Read More
Dark Tower Drawing – Campfire Outside the City of Lud (10/8/2017) - In my last post, I discussed an idea for a drawing related to Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I wanted to sketch Roland and his… Read More