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My intention with this painting is to focus on the figure, and to spend as little time with the background as possible. However, I have a tendency to get very involved in background details. I decided to force the issue by putting away all of my smaller brushes. I worked as quickly as I could, painting just enough detail to capture the basics of the building. I had planned on simplifying the reflections in the glass quite a bit, but as I got going I found I really liked the effect of the reflections superimposed over the interior of the building, and so I kept most of it. The scrap photographs were taken in front of the Salt Lake City library, and you can just make out some of the rows of books in the painting.

As anticipated, the trickiest part was painting right up to the figure without any overlapping. Finally all that practice staying inside the lines with my crayons as a kid is paying off. Of course, the really cool crayon sets come with a sharpener for the detail-oriented seven-year-old, and I was forced to break into my small-brush stash to do most of this careful work.

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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."