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Sisters

Welcome back once again to the Artist’s Studio. This time around I will be working on another figure painting, this time featuring two sisters. I have included several images with this post in an attempt to show the canvas fully sketched and ready to paint. The first image is of the entire 36-inch square canvas. The lines of the drawing are fine enough that they really don’t show up well on camera, but if you look carefully you should be able to make out the basic composition. Two female figures sitting on some nicely curved concrete steps with a little cityscape in the background. The younger sister is resting her head on the shoulder of the older sister. The other two images give progressively closer details of the sketch. In the closest image, you can see the amount of detail that has gone into the sketch. This represents a lot of work, but time after time I find that in the long run it saves much more time than it takes, and results in a better painting.

Sisters, Sisters,
As with the last few paintings in this series, this is not a complex composition and the theme is very simple as well. My main focus will be on the figures with particular emphasis on expression and body language, and the painting of the background will move very quickly.

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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."