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Motive Force: Step 9

Motive Force

Once again I am breaking with my usual order by painting the legs before the suit coat behind them. This time the reason is purely time related. The high amount of titanium white used to paint the stockings will take much longer to dry than most of the rest of the painting. Hopefully the extra day or two of dry time gained by painting them first will allow me to apply a coat of retouch varnish before I take the piece to the photographer. Seeing the painting this close to completion is really quite exciting. The more the primer coat is covered up by finished work, the more the entire composition seems to fall into place.

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2 Responses to “Motive Force: Step 9”

  1. Hannah Shapero Says:
    November 5th, 2004 at 11:00 am

    I love this picture already, I’ve been waiting for a really good picture of Dagny Taggart. But if you didn’t know the story behind the picture, you would wonder whether she is about to be run over by the locomotive! Will you try a portrait of John Galt next?

  2. Timothy Says:
    November 5th, 2004 at 3:30 pm

    Thank you for your inspirational drawings, and paintings. I love art and it has been a long time since I have seen art that merges reality with imagination in such a glorious way.

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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."