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Waking Among the Clouds: Step 1

Waking Among the Clouds

For the past year, I have been painting a lot of scholastic pieces, working on various aspects of figure painting. A small number of these exercises, the more thematic ones, have been featured here in the studio. But its time to get back to some serious thematic painting, and put the past years practice to the test. I have a large, multi-figure composition that I hope will represent a new stage in my career in the works, but as I ramp up for that, I will be working on a single figure composition incorporating the Among the Clouds studies.

This image is of the fully sketched and ready to paint canvas. The painting will be 18″ x 30″, painted in oils on linen as usual. The female figure is awakening from a mid-afternoon nap to take in the view from her high-rise home. My intent is to keep the texture and coloring of the bedding such that the feeling of waking among the clouds is unbroken.

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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."