Created by: Haylee Ryan
Instagram: @hayleeryan
In her early drawings and paintings Haylee Ryan gave to her grandfather, her love of the human figure emerged, and it still dominates her artwork to this day. “Always, always, always I’ve drawn the human figure,” she says. “I cannot get away from people’s faces.” She sold her first portrait in the 9th grade. There are other constants in her work as well, one technique in particular being a form of layering.
She first explored it in her senior art show, which featured paintings that looked pixelated up close and hyper-realistic from a distance. Then, recently, she completed a series based on polaroids of her grandmother when was young.
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