Going back in time to March 2023, here is an oil painting I did around that time based on when…

 It’s kind of interesting to look back at this portrait. It was my 49th oil painting, which at the time…

I’m so incredibly far behind now in sharing paintings, and it seems like there’s not much I can do to…

Around the time of this painting, I was thinking about how often I paint similar things. As you can tell…

This painting of a woman in a dark room is another portrait study in my efforts to practice specific areas…

It might be sort of weird how I’m phrasing this title – a “Jon Amdall Self Portrait”…painted by Jon Amdall…written…

When I started this painting, I had some vague notions of treating it sort of like a capstone project. Although…

I might say this too often, but the oil painting featured in this post seems to represent somewhat of a…

The subject of this post is an oil painting I did of my all-time favorite musician Mike Patton. Patton is…

The subject of this post’s oil painting is the second of two requests from my kids. This time, it was…

The subject of this post is an oil painting I did by request of my kids – it’s a portrait…

I’ve mentioned on a few blog posts over the last few months how far behind I am sharing artwork. This…

This post is broadly about reference images and where to get them, but really the purpose is to discuss my…

This post is going to be about the importance of a painting’s initial structure. Basically, how the build and forms…