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Strada Challenge: Jar of Peaches

🍑 In this 2.5+ hour gallery-level demo, Bryan Mark Taylor demonstrates how to balance softness, translucence, and structure by painting a peach nested in a glass jar—making both feel tactile, alive, and connected.


You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Capture the succulent texture of fruit against hard, clear glass
🌗 Manage light, shadow, and reflections to unify complex surfaces
🎯 Build a cohesive composition that lets each element support the narrative
🧩 Layer paint and edgework to enhance depth, focus, and realism


Perfect for still life painters who want to push their technical and observational skills—especially in combining contrasting materials with clarity and harmony. 🕒 Runtime: 1 hour

  • 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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