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The Letter

As I did with the shirt, I decided to mess around with the color of the skirt a bit to tie it in with the flowers and fit the composition a little better.  The skirt in the photos was a nice khaki-gray-green, lovely with the white shirt but a little awkward with the pink.  The bright green of the stems in the bouquet was a tempting choice, but not really as subtle/elegant as I thought it should be.  I settled on a warm, dark brown close to the color of the hair.  As you can see in the images below, it didn’t last.  As soon as I had the area in the first image blocked in, I realized it was too dark and the contrast far to distracting.  So I wiped it off.  Very carefully. In the end I decided to go with this light tan color.  I think it goes much better with the pink shirt, it’s light enough to play nicely with the extremely fair skin of the legs, and an all-around simple, elegant choice.  Of course, it doesn’t exactly tie in with the flowers, but I thought a little decorative band in the dark brown of the hair with an embroidered floral design in the green of the stems would take care of that.

After all the fussing around with colors and wiping off of paint, I only managed to get a little of the skirt finished in the first sitting.

The Letter

Here it is at the end of the second sitting.

The Letter

And, finally, the finished skirt.

I think it turned out rather well. At some point since the completion of the shirt, it seems I must have also painted the letter for which the painting will eventually be named.

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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."