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Strada Challenge: Fall Knickknacks

🍂 Embrace autumn’s quiet magic through still life challenge. In this 1.5+ hour demo, Bryan Mark Taylor shows you how to compose and balance a warm, seasonal arrangement of spotted maize, squash, and a creamer pitcher—turning what seems like chaotic elements into harmonious design.


You’ll learn how to:
🎯 Find compositional unity among disparate objects
🧩 Use value and color relationships to support structure
🌾 Tame visual complexity while preserving richness
🖌️ Follow the flow of Bryan’s brushwork and pick up process insight (no voiceover)


Perfect for artists who want to translate seasonal still life into expressive, balanced arrangements. 🕒 Runtime: 1.5+ 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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