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Practicing Specific Weaknesses | Portrait Oil Painting

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Jon Amdall 2 comments

I tend to practice and repeat specific themes when it comes to portrait painting. This seems to manifest itself most often with concepts or features that I view as weaker areas. Earlier in my painting journey, probably for the first 150 or so oil paintings, I honestly really needed to practice everything. So, I didn’t narrow in as much on

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Relaxed Pose Capstone Figure Painting

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Jon Amdall Leave a comment

When I started this painting, I had some vague notions of treating it sort of like a capstone project. Although I’ve done over 80 paintings now, at the point in time when I painted this one, I had done somewhere in the mid-40s. I really felt like I was starting to get into the groove of things, and was seeing