Figure Painting in Oils

Back to oils

Sometimes I think my art journey is one of painting in oils, loving it, slowly straying away from it into digital work, and then rediscovering oils and how much I love them. I’m in the rediscovery phase, once again, and loving the hell out of oils.

Portrait practice

I needed to paint some more portraits for the Paint Figures Better portrait painting demo, so here we go! Good chance to dive into studying again for a bit.

Memento Mori Mug

I made a new Memento Mori mug because I’m a sucker for stoicism and coffee. I needed a new mug anyway and this has been a great companion over the last few weeks. I’m not really intending to sell a lot of these, but if you want one, you can buy a mug on my store here.

Rachel

Ref and brushes from Rachel. Trying to work on improving my edge control. It’s a thing that seems to be really lacking in my work and I want to fix that.

Always learning.

How to be more stoic as an artist

• You can’t fully control the outcome, but you can control your input (effort you put in, the attention you’re paying to your work).
• You can’t control how people will respond to your work. So make the best work that you can. Make the work that you want to make.
• You can’t control if everyone loves you. But you can control the effort you’re putting into your work and the efforts in sharing your work.

Fay

Study from our new reference pack, Fay.

2022 in art

This is most of the art that I made this past year. There are also hundreds of figure drawings not seen here. There was also a little bit of traditional drawing/painting, but not very much. That’s something I’d like to do more of in 2023. Hold me to that if you don’t see me cranking out oil paintings soon.

Across the Universe

Rosetta

A study of Rosetta from our new reference pack, Figure Drawing: Rosetta. Felt great to be back to painting figures. It had been too long since I did any of these and I was certainly rusty at first. But I think the time away from them taught me a lot.