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By the Fountain

Although the fountain is quite lovely, and a fine backdrop for a contemplative stroll, it does have the one drawback of being surrounded by parking meters, persons not cut out to be models, and a Burger King. It is at times like this that I am glad to be a painter and not a photographer. Some years ago Sara, Damon Denys and I took a month long trip through Scotland, where I shot several rolls of film (that’s right kids, in the old days you had to put both film and batteries in a camera) with the intention of using the striking landscapes in future paintings. The mountains in the background of this painting are based on a few of those photos. In this image I have very roughly chopped in some basic colors and shapes to give myself a reference while working on the concrete and the water of the fountain in the foreground. By the time the fountain is finished, this first coat should be dry enough to paint over, yielding more opaque whites and brighter blues.

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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."