Brian Mark Taylor

One of the interesting things about the way Brian Mark Taylor paints is that he uses no painting medium.  He uses a dry brush because it gives his paintings a texture.  In this painting he used this one brush.  You can see the red dots and dashes Brian made to build his composition.  Brian does not do an initial sketch or thumbnail drawing to begin his painting.

At this point in the painting Brian is still deciding what his focal point is going to be.  He was debating which of the buildings he would choose.  He ended up picking the buildings by his brush in this photo.  He would lateer make significant adjustments to the hills in the background.  He really kept things simple and open to interpretation in the background.  It helped him nail down the atmospheric perspective.  He also altered the bottom of the painting where the water and the sand meet because the water and the sand had too similar a look.  They were evenly painted all across the bottom.

This demo took an hour for him to complete.  This is the result.