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All that remains to be painted is the dress. I have described several times, here in the studio, my standard procedure for painting drapery. I typically will paint the mid-tones first and then blend in the darker shadows and the highlights. Well, this has been a fairly experimental painting from a technical standpoint, and the trend continues here. I found that I could achieve a very soft, light, cotton feel to the dress by using thick paint (straight color with no added oil or turpentine) on a small round brush, and putting down final colors in one pass. At first this seemed to be taking considerably longer than my other method, but I got faster as I went, and since this should all but eliminate the need for a second coat of paint, (whites can be somewhat transparent on drying, but this coat is so thick that I seriously doubt that will be an issue here) it may actually prove to be faster overall. I don’t think the same would hold true if this were a larger painting unless I could find a way to achieve the same result on a larger scale with a bigger round brush. In any case, it is working wonderfully here, and I love the results. I wish there were a way to show the surface texture in this image, but the camera just doesn’t pick it up.

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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."