About 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."
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Wow! I’m so excited to see sculpture in the Artist’s Studio at QCFA. I have always wondered what kind of work goes into creating a life-size bronze sculpture. Thanks for sharing the process with us Karl. I like the sequential pictures, but would love a closer look at our young man’s face. As the mommy of a “Man of the Future” myself, I am absolutely loving the theme too. You aren’t perhaps working at the foundry in Provo, UT? Just curious
Have fun in the Studio!
Heh heh. Just got to the later steps and got a closer look. Thanks! Keep it up.