Jon Amdall

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Portrait art hobbyist, recently learning to paint after years of sketching. Time-lapse painting videos on Instagram and Youtube, or check the website if you like reading.
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My classic SNES painting series continues with this piece, which is another Final Fantasy VI painting, this time featuring the Figaro brothers Edgar and Sabin. This blog post features some discussion on the piece and future plans - #art #finalfantasy #rpg #painting

https://jonamdall.com/2026/02/28/final-fantasy-vi-painting-edgar-and-sabin-coin-flip/

Blog post about my Chrono Trigger painting, featuring some of my favorite characters Frog, Marle, and Chrono. The classic RPG painting series continues! #painting #fanart #chronotrigger #art

https://jonamdall.com/2026/02/14/chrono-trigger-painting-frog-marle-and-chrono/

And here is the full time lapse of this Final Fantasy VI oil painting (Terra, Mog, Locke, and Shadow). More to come from other classic rpgs! #finalfantasy #painting

I have long enjoyed tinkering around the edges of the technology and software world. I haven't shared much on this site lately other than paintings, but over the past year, I built an app to track my art and some dashboards to share stats. (more in the post) #app #appsheet #dashboard

https://jonamdall.com/2026/01/24/art-viewer-app-and-stat-dashboards/

Blog post on continuing a series of oil paintings inspired by my favorite classic SNES era games, this piece features characters from Final Fantasy VI. Post includes a discussion on inspiration from video games and nostalgia. #artwork #fanart #finalfantasy #rpg #retrogaming #painting

https://jonamdall.com/2026/01/18/final-fantasy-vi-painting-video-games-inspiring-art/

This blog post is all about my fondness for nature scenes as backgrounds in my portraits. It's a concept I deploy often in oil paintings, but one I keep coming back to. Probably in many ways inspired by Bob Ross' Joy of Painting. #art #painting #artist

https://jonamdall.com/2025/12/26/nature-scene-backgrounds-in-portraits/

Latest blog post on a Secret of Mana painting, discussion on transforming to my own style. One of my favorite classic SNES games, would love to paint more like this. #art #painting #retro #rpg #secretofmana

https://jonamdall.com/2025/12/21/secret-of-mana-painting-game-art-in-my-style/

Ragamuffin Cat in a Basket Oil Painting - Amdall Gallery

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 I use is our family cat. The featured oil painting in this post is of our little Ragamuffin cat sitting in a basket. This was painted alla prima in somewhere between an hour and 90 minutes, which I think turned out well. Likenesses are kind of tricky for animals, but I think this really does look like him.

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Just posted a sale on the Amdall Gallery etsy shop - all prints of my oil paintings are 25% off for the next week. https://etsy.me/3YbO7ev #etsy #amdallgallery #etsyfinds #etsygifts #etsysale #etsycoupon #shopsmall

One big emphasis lately has been natural sitting poses.My hope is to keep working at depicting subjects in normal relaxed poses until those solid efforts mostly overtake the rough. #art #painting #portrait #artist

https://jonamdall.com/2025/03/01/practicing-specific-weaknesses-portrait-oil-painting/

Practicing Specific Weaknesses |Portrait Oil Painting - Amdall Gallery

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

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