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Strada Challenge: Breads

🥖 Indulge your eyes (and appetite) with warm crusts and soft centers. In this 2+ hour Strada Challenge, Bryan Mark Taylor leads you through a delicious lineup of breads—sourdough, artisan loaves, pretzels, jam-topped wonders—while you practice texture, shape overlap, value, and color mood.

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Render crust vs crumb: capture contrast between hard outer surfaces and tender interiors with texture and value
📐 Simplify overlapping shapes so your compositions stay readable even in complexity
🌗 Handle atypical local values so your breads read true under different lighting and color contexts
🍞 Build warmth, richness, and depth even in muted or subtle color schemes

  A perfect challenge for advanced still-life artists who want to hone color decisions, texture, and value richness—especially in scenes with overlapping forms and varied surfaces. 🕒 Runtime: 2+ hours
  • Bryan Mark Taylor

    Instructor
  • Advanced

    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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