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New Year's Eve

This next piece I am particularly excited to work on. It will feature a couple looking out at the city on New Years Eve. I came across this thumbnail sketch in an old sketchbook while working on some preliminary ideas for a commission. This composition was not chosen, but I decided I would paint it anyway. This second sketch is a more fully flushed out version that I did for the commission. It is also the one I will use to explain the idea to the models.

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New Years is a singularly romantic holiday in the classical sense of the word; reflecting on the past year’s accomplishments combined with excitement and optimism about the year to come. In this composition I will add a romantic element in the contemporary sense with the young couple at the window. I originally intended to have them looking out at the snow falling on the city, since I personally find that to be romantic. However, while discussing the idea with Sara, as I often do, she was amazed that I wasn’t planning on fireworks over the city. Honestly, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that either. It will make a much more dramatic and effective composition, it will represent New Years more clearly, and it will be fun to paint. So the fireworks are in, and the snow is out.

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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."