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Glass Fruit Ceramic Still Life Oil Painting by Bryan Mark Taylor

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Creating a Compelling Still Life

📐 Build compositions that breathe and resonate. In this 3+ hour demo, Bryan Mark Taylor walks you through structuring still life scenes from the ground up—aligning form, flow, and focal points so every object and gap contributes purposefully.

You’ll learn how to:
🎯 Arrange shapes and negative space to lead the viewer’s eye
🧩 Balance contrast, rhythm, and focal weight across your layout
🌿 Use compositional tools (triangles, golden ratios, value progression) in real time
🖼️ Solve “bad elements” mid-layout and maintain unity in complexity


Ideal for artists who want to move beyond object stacking and toward visual intentionality—build still lifes with strength, clarity, and design that feels alive. 🕒 Runtime: 2+ hours

  • Bryan Mark Taylor

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
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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