Hey there, my name is Ryan Dyck. I've been an artist for basically my whole life. Right now, I focus on drawing and painting. I draw realistically and I also employ a cartoon-like style. As for painting, I paint realistically and I also paint in abstract. For the most part, I'd say I am a self-tought drawer, although I have taken art classes in middle school and high school. Those increased my abilities immensely.
I haven't always enjoyed painting. In fact, I didn't start painting until I reached grade 11. In grade 11 art class, all we really did was paint. I didn't really like it at all, but I got good at it probably because I had to. But eventually (around grade 12), it grew on me and I've been painting ever since.
There was a big gap of time where I wasn't making much art at all for my own enjoyment, which I'd say started around grade 11 and it kept going until maybe the end of grade 12. That wasn't just two years. The reason for that is because I got mentally ill around the first few months of grade 12 and I had to get treatment before it got any worse. This treatment meant I was in the hospital for five months before I was to return to school. After that I returned to high school and graduated in the following year.
For a while after this time, I was just doing art in bits and pieces here and there but I didn't seriously pick it up again until I enrolled in a program in Winnipeg called ArtBeat. ArtBeat is such a great program. Intended for adults with a mental illness, they give said people free art space for six months. Once I got in, I started doing some abstract painting with palette knives and I just took off with it. If you take a look at my blog, you'll see a bunch of these pieces, along with some realistic drawings, paintings and some clay work as well that I made at ArtBeat. As a part of being enrolled in ArtBeat, they give you and your group of artists an art show at the end of the six months. It was here that I sold a few pieces, including one that went to Calgary.
Now I'm just doing some art here and there, little by little, and putting up some posts featuring my art and things on my mind on this blog.
Thanks for reading,
Ryan
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