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It's a privilege to bring you an image from art photographer Matt Larson. Titled "Ybor City Time," the piece represents late 19th century Ybor City in Tampa. Mr. Larson produced the image in the lost "salt print" process, an early photographic development technique that is much like life itself: painstaking, dangerous, yet ultimately exquisite. Mr. Larson chose a Civil War era American Waltham pocket watch in a 6-ounce coin silver case as his subject.

Period clothing was provided by La France in Ybor City.

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Glimpses of the Deep came about when a mentor of mine asked me to do a solo art show.  This was my chance to do my first solo art show, the caveat though,  was that it needed to be ready to go in three months.  Of course I said yes.  

  I started by creating rules for myself.  Its always easier to create when you have guidelines set in place.  In order to complete the series in time I had to use a medium which I have pretty much mastered, the Pilot Precise V5 ink pen.  I've been using this brand of pen almost as long as I've been drawing. 

   The next guideline I made was that the subject matter had to be identifiable to the general public. I've been drawing sea life for longer than I've been drawing with a Pilot pen, so this one made sense to me.  My mother had a set of Jacque Cousteau books that I would constantly flip through when I was growing up.  I also had a plethora of photos that I and my family took at Shedd Aquarium and the Georgia Aquarium.  

  Using my Pilot Pen I set out to create sea life pieces.  I focused on challenging myself with lighting and creating dark, middle and light tones using an instrument that only produced one shade of black. And I had time constraints.  My goal was twelve pieces, but I stopped at ten because I wanted to give myself time to properly frame and mat everything.  

 Overall it was a wonderful experience for me and it really leveled up my drawing skills and my confidence in my chosen discipline.

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Making #Art-O-Mat blocks. 

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I just finished season 2 of Future Man and I really enjoyed it.  One of the funniest tidbits was the term "Komputaboinken" which was mentioned twice, I think.  I was so inspired I had to make a logo for it and make it look like the IBM logo. 

https://www.redbubble.com/people/mattlarson-art/works/36359596-komputaboinken?p=sticker&size=small&size=medium 

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These are the Christmas presents I made for my family this year.

Gandalf’s Smoke Ship was made for my mother. It is one of our favorite scenes from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, done in ink I\using stippling technique.

Vault of Glass Warlock is my Brother In-Laws Warlock, he sherpa’d me through my first run of Vault of glass and that was quite a good time.

Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser was done for my sister.  She is quite a fan along with a lot of other people including my wife (She claimed the pencils to this piece).

I’m quite proud of these because it is the first time I have been able to plan out, execute, and deliver drawing for all three of them for Christmas.

I also used these as a jumping point for my Red Bubble Store

https://www.redbubble.com/people/MattLarson-Art/shop

Check out the stickers under the stationary tab, those are the main draw I think.  Thanks!