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Hi there!
My name is Bryan M. Whyte...
First of all, I have been lucky enough to have some good friends help me put
together this web site about the various works of art that I have created.
Thanks guys.
Check out their link below.
They wanted me to say a couple things about my history with art and my
background to add to the web page. So I figured I would start with the
beginning…
At the age of about three years old I remember my Mom would put me down for
afternoon naps. I know I was this age because at the time my family was
still in the city of
Chicago,
and we hadn't moved to the northern suburbs yet because I wasn't old enough
for school. When that time came, my parents did not want me going to one of
the city schools. We eventually moved to
Skokie when I was four or five.
At this age I was a very uppity kid and always got into trouble. My parents
had a lot of keeping track of me at the time. I was getting into everything.
To have to go to bed was the worst thing. I always fought it and refused. It
became very well known that I had become an escape artist.
Through observation I had discovered that to open the crib that I was
sleeping in I had to push down on the latch on the underside of the crib
gate. Then the gate would let loose and be low enough for me to
escape. These were my first experiences with escaping my sleeping
confines.
After much trial and error, I had learned that simply unlatching the gate
and letting it drop was not good enough. My parents would hear the
clang of the drop of the gate, lay me down again and put the gate back up.
So after my first lessons I learned that sound travels, and I tried
something new. I reached over the side of the bed and got ready to hit
the latch while simultaneously holding the gate. I would then hit the latch
quietly and lower the gate slowly hand over hand. It was then simply a
matter of climbing down the outside of the crib, which of course was
something I was good at. I then crept down the hall, keeping near the
wall so as to cause as little noise as possible. I would always go
crawl under the chairs and tables in the dining room, and hide in the
shadows, hoping my parents, doing whatever they were doing in the living
room, wouldn't see me. I was always curious why my parents put me to
bed and what they were up to. In this case my Mom was the only one
home, and my dad was at work. I saw her sitting on the couch listening
to the radio in the living room. She had a pad of paper in her hand, and a
glass of whine next to her with a plate of sliced cheese next to it, by a
flower in a small vase. Now as I usually did, I kinda spied on her,
quite content with the fact that she didn't know I was there.
But then I got really curious and excited to see what she was doing.
My excitement took me over and I ran out from under the dining room table to
go and see what she was doing. She sat there calmly and invited me to
have a look. She was doing a still life. It was a line inked
drawing with water colors. I just watched her with fascination.
That was how art was first introduced to me.
The style of my art is largely brought on by my father. He was a
Chicago school science teacher before he retired. When I was young, he
would always watch science TV shows on channel 11 with me and my sisters.
With his introduction of science to me as a young child, I had become very
interested as to how the universe worked. Up until now I have
furthered my studies in science. More recently my interests have taken
me to history and politics. These things I consider to be more abstract
answers as to why things are the way they are, and how everything figures
into the big picture. This is kinda where the feel of my art comes
from. Some of it is so intricate it could be technical diagrams.
However I could never be an architect…that would never hold my attention.
I just want to make sure the really cool things I create have some laws of
physics tied to them.
I have worked on many areas of art and listed below are just some of them...
Set design, building and painting
miniature design, building and painting
graphic design (Photoshop, illustrator, quark, PowerPoint)
web design (fireworks, dreamweaver, flash)
line art, ink and pencil
painting
sculpturing
photography
computer art (general)
Here I hope to accomplish is a full diary of my art, and the good people
around me who have influenced it.
Bryan M. Whyte |
