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Chinese Houseboat Landscape Oil Painting by Bryan Mark Taylor

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Chinese Houseboat

⚓ Steer your brush into another world. In this 1 hour gallery demo, Bryan Mark Taylor leads you through painting a traditional Chinese boat in atmospheric water—teaching how to orchestrate mood, reflection, and compositional unity in one evocative scene.

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Capture reflections and water effects with believable distortion
🌫️ Build mood via selective contrast, depth cues, and value layers
📐 Strengthen composition so architecture, water, and environment feel coherent
🎯 Lead the viewer’s eye across the scene with focal planning and edge control

Ideal for painters who want to deepen their environmental painting skills—especially in handling water, reflections, and mood in a narrative context. 🕒 Runtime: 1+ 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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