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Well, I’d hoped that I could get a slightly better photo of the classical guitar, but I got very dark, overcast clouds instead and this is the best my artificial lighting could achieve, I’m afraid.  At least you can see the different color of blue I’ve used in his shirt, and how its higher intensity is meant to seize more attention than the blue areas around it.

There’s not a lot I can say about the process of painting the shirt that you probably haven’t heard already, but I can probably add that I like the idea of the shirt giving him a more casual look.  At other times I might have given him a more formal sort of attire, to give a sense of professionalism to him, but in this case I want his precise nature to seem purely natural; the by-product of his mindset and state of being.  It doesn’t really change the theme, but it adds just a slight shade of Z-axis dimension to it that I like.

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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."