Painting a Portrait of My Wife
75Portrait of My Wife, oil on paper. This is a painting I actually did for mother’s day last weekend. The painting was complete before Sunday, but I didn’t have time to edit the time lapse video and share it until now. So, sort of a late holiday tribute to a very caring, wonderful person.
As with the kids, it’s been a while since I tried to paint her. They are some of my first painting subjects…but I struggled quite a bit to capture all of their likenesses when I first started with oil paints. I mean, that does make sense - it can certainly take time to get used to a totally new medium. I’d only ever used colored pencils, so the learning curve was steep.
Anyhow, I finally got the courage to try painting the kids a couple weekends ago and it went pretty well I think. So I had a bit of confidence to try this one of my wife. The first attempt fell apart and became too muddy, so I grabbed some fresh paper rather than try to wrestle with cleaning up mistakes. I think the likeness is pretty solid here! Not perfect, but good enough to where I could confidently do another.
💻For more artwork by Jon Amdall, check out Amdall Gallery at https://jonamdall.com/
Colors Used:
⬛️ Raw Umber (Gamblin 1980)
⬜️ Titanium White (Utrecht Studio)
🟨 Yellow Ochre (Gamblin 1980)
🟥 Cadmium Red Hue (Utrecht Studio)
🟥 Alizarin Crimson (Utrecht Studio)
🟧 Blush (Gamblin 1980)
🟫 Burnt Umber (Utrecht Studio)
🟫 Burnt Sienna (Utrecht Studio)
🟦 Ultramarine Blue (Utrecht Studio)
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