He continued through his college years producing black and white pen & ink art, spending 4 hours a day in college classes, and another 8 hours practicing art. He went back briefly to drawing houses in black and white, and went door to door to sell them in order to make the rent. He also did photography and ad art for a real estate office.

During one period in the 90's, he produced many black and white line drawings and cartoons that were used by local advertising agencies, and businesses in the Yakima Valley, including Red Robin and the Yakima Herald Republic. He attended high school in San Francisco, where he often locked himself away to practice his craft using whatever was at hand, charcoal, colored pencils, Bic pens. He passed away in 2009 at age 84.Īs he progressed into the 70's, Larsen moved into other more colorful media, and soon developed a love for comic book art. After that he never returned to the arts. But duty called and he was drafted into the Korean War. His Disney character drawings were so fluent that the Disney Company wanted him in Los Angeles as an animator. In his youth, Larsen's father was a virtuoso cartoonist. He was fascinated by the array of tools he was given, architectural triangles, three sided rulers, mechanical pencils, even an electric eraser, a true luxury in the 70's. His father was a draftsman for the state DOT, and often brought home well used drafting tools for him to play with, and soon he found himself drawing floor plans and houses. He has never had a teacher or taken a painting class. From drawing on the walls with magic markers as a child to his most recent professional watercolors, art has been his life's work. A spoiled child of the 60's and 70's, he grew up amidst the fruit orchards of the Yakima Valley. Born in Yakima Washington in 1963, Larsen has been a practicing artist for more than 45 years.

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