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Strada Challenge: Chicken Noodle Soup

🍜In this half hour still-life challenge demo, Bryan Mark Taylor invites you to paint a bowl of chicken noodle soup — using vertical perspective, strong values, and thoughtful design to transform the everyday into something rich and painterly.


You’ll learn how to:
🎯 Use top-down viewpoint/perspective to capture the soup’s depth and structure
🌒 Handle values so the shadows, highlights, and translucent broth read cleanly
🍲 Compose the objects (bowl, noodles, chicken, steam) so everything works together — without feeling stiff or overspecified
🖌️ Make your marks count even in a short session — a focused “challenge” format


Perfect for painters who want a quick, juicy exercise in value, form, and perspective that adds fun and skill. 🕒 Runtime: 0.5 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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