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Garden Solace: Step 9

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To finish the hair, I’m using a combination of ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson, as opposed to black. This dark-purplish alternative gives her hair a nice flourish that ties it in with the lavender flower bloom she holds, as well as the rosiness of her flesh tones. I’m not against using black, but this aids in the unity of the painting as a whole in this case.

I also add a few more details here, a few there, just to tie things together, and sign the painting with my signature silver lyre on its side in the shape of a “D”. (We must be allowed at least some extravagances, mustn’t we? We won’t discuss my furry shoes…)

I hope you’ve had a lovely time following the progress of this work, or a lovely time stumbling accidentally upon this last post just today, and I hope that you and those you love have survived the excitement of overly-enthusiastic footballers for yet another World Cup.

We’ll see you next time. Thank you, and chin chin.

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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."