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Completing work on the background building involved a continuation of the previous days work, again with the smaller brushes safely stowed out of reach. This section went especially fast since there was very little of the figure left to paint around. When I finished with it and stepped back to take in the whole effect, I thought if felt a little flat. I mixed some fresh colors, and starting in the upper right corner, brightened the reflections in the glass just enough to add some depth and a bit more interest. I also cleaned up the edges of the white horizontal bands between the glass panes, and gave them more dimension with a few white highlights. I am really not used to leaving things this rough, but I suspect that the unfinished lower half of the painting is making the rest of it feel unfinished as well. I have decided to wait until the concrete wall in the foreground is painted, and then decide whether or not to mess with the background any more.

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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."