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Two areas of clouds still needed attention before the sky was finished. The section left of the figure’s shoulders was straight forward enough, but in order to paint the section on the right, I first had to complete the two buildings behind it. These images show the overall painting at this stage and details of the two sections of cloud and the buildings, including a third building in the front.

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I had a lot of fun working on the design of these sky-scrapers. The idea was that the aerodynamic, wing shape of the structure would seriously reduce the wind-sheer on the tall buildings (assuming an area with a fairly constant wind direction). The balconies are all on the shielded side. More important to my purpose, I think they look quite cool.

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The red striping on the antenna of the nearest building increasingly reminded me of a candy cane. I changed it as part of the final touch-up work on the finished piece.

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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."