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Strada Challenge: Squash & Pumpkins

🎃 Capture autumn’s warmth in a single session. In this 1.5+ hour silent paint-along, Bryan Mark Taylor demonstrates how to build form and atmosphere around the soft curves and muted hues of pumpkins and squash. Watch color temperature and brush economy bring life to the still life as the scene unfolds stroke by stroke (no audio). 

You’ll learn how to:
🌾 Balance warm and cool tones for natural harmony
✨ Suggest texture and weight with minimal brushwork
🎨 Keep color notes vibrant without overmixing
🕯️ Build soft, luminous light with careful edge control

  Perfect for artists seeking to refine their understanding of temperature, light, and seasonal color in oils. Runtime: 1.5+ hour.
  • Bryan Mark Taylor

    Instructor
  • Advanced

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Meet your instructor

Bryan Mark Taylor

A painter, lecturer, entrepreneur, and world traveler Bryan Mark Taylor is a renaissance man. He makes regular contributions to art and design magazines including Plein Air and Imagine FX.
Bryan is a sought-after teacher and lecturer and has taught courses worldwide, including at the Academy of Art University, Pixar, and the Scottsdale Artists School. In addition, Bryan has been a featured speaker at the Plein Air, CTNX, Fantastic Arts, Dragonsteel, and VisionX conferences.
Bryan has traveled around the globe, carefully observing and capturing nature’s miracles.

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