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Garden Solace

And, just as we did with the blouse, we now go back and finish the fleshy bits. I’ve included a close-up of the face. You can (I hope) see how much more refined this is from its Impressionistic predecessor.

Garden Solace, by Damon-A. H. Denys

Now, the hair is still in its rough, chopped-in state. Yet it doesn’t really look so off-beat from the much more polished face that it ensconces. This has a lot to do with our previous efforts at creating a nice transitional blend between the two. This is also a good example of what I was blabbering about earlier about not jumping the gun and laying in finishing details on every area before you get a chance to bring the other areas of the painting up to a more finished level for a good comparison.

Your own tastes may very well be telling you “hey, let’s leave it alone and head for the beach for the rest of the day.” That would be fine. You go with that. But I’m going to go ahead and bring the hair up to speed with the face, because that’s just how I roll.

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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."