Aaron Larson

United States of America

Aaron Larson is a self-taught digital artist based in Minnesota, whose creative journey spans multiple mediums including painting, sketching, digital collage, and 3D modeling. Passionate about landscapes and outer space, he creates surreal worlds that merge familiar terrestrial scenes with cosmic elements such as stars, planets, and dreamlike clouds. Through vibrant, high-contrast colors and celestial motifs, his work explores the beauty of the unreal and aims to captivate the viewer—echoing the emotive use of color seen in artists like Vincent van Gogh.

Larson’s digital art is widely shared on social media and available through various online platforms as art prints. His dreamy landscapes have been featured by several musicians and can be seen on Apple Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube. He continues to develop new projects that push the boundaries between digital art and surreal storytelling, working primarily with tools like Photoshop, After Effects, and Blender.


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Lost at Sea

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Aarson creates collages that represent landscapes more surreal than each other. He imagines landscapes with unreal combinations of skies and clouds at different times of the day. In his eyes, there is no better combination than that of a starry night and a field of grass in broad daylight. 

The goal when he creates is to get attention with bright, contrasting colours and scenes, like Vincent van Gogh using memorable colours that reflect his unique perception of the world. In this case, this work of art illustrates the relationship between the sea and the sky. They are both massive and seem infinite.
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