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Born With Wings: Step 13

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The pants offered many of the same challenges as the shirt but seemed a little more subtle geometrically which made them harder to paint. Once again, I painted the mid-tones and shadows beneath the largest folds first, then went back over with increasingly lighter tones to add the smaller, more delicate details. One trick with fabric is to notice the characteristic shapes it makes when folded. Thin smooth fabric (like the pants and shirt in this case) tends to create sharp, linear folds and very geometrical shapes. Heavy fabric like wool sweaters or velvet forms softer, more rounded shapes.

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One Response to “Born With Wings: Step 13”

  1. Corinne Says:
    December 31st, 2003 at 10:30 am

    I have just discovered this Artist’s Studio, and I think it’s great! Bryan is one of my favorite artists in your gallery, and I am tremendously enjoying this opportunity to see him in action, step by step. Bryan, thanks so much for sharing this with us!

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About Bryan Larsen ~

Bryan Larsen

"I was born on February 12, 1975, and have been drawing as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be an artist, although at the time I didn't have a clear idea of how exactly I would use my talents to make a living.

"As I continued studying art, I began to suspect that fine visual art was dead. No one seemed interested in teaching students how to draw well, or paint well. More often than not, my own skills exceeded those of my instructors.

"The only field left that seemed to require good drawing, painting, and compositional skills was illustration, and therefore I began studying illustration at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I became even more convinced that I had made the right decision in staying away from fine art as I endured course after course of required "drawing" and "painting" classes in which instructors required me to draw with "less focus", or use ridiculous materials such as shellac, glue, sand, salt, etc.

"My second year at Utah State, I met Damon Denys. In discussing Art with him I realized that there were other people who believed that technique and subject matter were indispensable components of any work of art. I then decided that I would work to develop my own painting skills with the purpose of creating artwork that I considered worthy of being called Fine Art.

"Since that time, I have studied on my own: Drawing from live models to learn the human form, studying proper painting techniques from any source I could find ample reason to trust, and developing a philosophy of Art based on reason, and life on earth.

"My goal is to portray the heroic and romantic in human nature and human achievement in a realistic style and a modern setting. I place particular emphasis on composition, technique, realistic detail, proper craftsmanship and consistency of style."