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Hello again and thank you for joining me for the last installment of this Artist’s Studio.
The surface has now been scrubbed back by hand to highlight the piece overall, but now an air tool polisher will be used to polish the skin and other smooth areas to give a luster under the next patina color.

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The next step is another chemical, ferric nitrate (iron for the brown color), applied with an automotive paint sprayer and a blow torch for heat.

Man of the Future

After the iron solution is applied, but before the bronze cools, it is waxed with a high quality carnauba wax - the hardest and most durable wax available, which comes from the carnauba tree.

Man of the Future

It is further driven into the bronze with heat from a torch. This will protect it from the elements outdoors, and like maintaining a car’s finish, it should be reapplied on a shady or cool day about once a year. After cooling, the wax becomes matte and the piece is given a final polish with a soft cloth before shipping out to a gallery or a collector’s home.

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Thanks again for joining me, and for supporting the Arts at Quent Cordair.

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About Bryan Larsen ~

Bryan Larsen

"I was born on February 12, 1975, and have been drawing as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be an artist, although at the time I didn't have a clear idea of how exactly I would use my talents to make a living.

"As I continued studying art, I began to suspect that fine visual art was dead. No one seemed interested in teaching students how to draw well, or paint well. More often than not, my own skills exceeded those of my instructors.

"The only field left that seemed to require good drawing, painting, and compositional skills was illustration, and therefore I began studying illustration at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I became even more convinced that I had made the right decision in staying away from fine art as I endured course after course of required "drawing" and "painting" classes in which instructors required me to draw with "less focus", or use ridiculous materials such as shellac, glue, sand, salt, etc.

"My second year at Utah State, I met Damon Denys. In discussing Art with him I realized that there were other people who believed that technique and subject matter were indispensable components of any work of art. I then decided that I would work to develop my own painting skills with the purpose of creating artwork that I considered worthy of being called Fine Art.

"Since that time, I have studied on my own: Drawing from live models to learn the human form, studying proper painting techniques from any source I could find ample reason to trust, and developing a philosophy of Art based on reason, and life on earth.

"My goal is to portray the heroic and romantic in human nature and human achievement in a realistic style and a modern setting. I place particular emphasis on composition, technique, realistic detail, proper craftsmanship and consistency of style."