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I looked forward to working on the drapery for this painting. It was simple, but had enough extra decoration and texture to make it interesting. It’s also always a lot of fun to paint drapery when it is responsible for revealing enough of the figure’s form that it becomes an important part of the pose. Rather than working by blocking in the entire blouse and skirt, and then refining the details in successive layers of paint, I worked by sections…finishing each as I went along.

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A final pass was made over the entire outfit to level out the colors, refine details and punch up the deep shadows and highlights.

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Incidentally, you may have noticed that I also painted the gold, braided bracelets somewhere in there. Metallic and glass objects are always fun to work on, largely because the lighting and coloration is usually a surprise. They provide an excellent opportunity to practice observation and color matching skills.

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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."