Don Ryan
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Fine Artist |
| Location | Carol Stream, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I am continuing in my life long studies of oil and pastels. I am concentrating on the composition and color of Landscape and Portraits. My passion is to convey God's beauty and abstract design in everyday items that we are all to often too busy to see. Taught by some great artists at the American Academy of Art in the early 1980's. All though watercolor is my first love, pastel has been exciting, challenging and rewarding. Love infusing the piece with light or hatching to bring life even the deepest darks. |
| Interests | Truth, God's Word, Family & friends, Humor, Good books, Outdoors, Sunrises, Hunting and fishing, The changing seasons, |
| Favorite movies | Shane, Bridge over the River Kwai, The Great Escape, 12 Angry Men, Apocalypse Now, Bourne movies...even the new one, Tombstone, Groundhogs Day, |
| Favorite music | Classic Rock, Blues, some Country and Blue Grass too, |
| Favorite books | The Bible, The Reason for God, To Kill a Mocking Bird, This Present Darkness, The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, The Pillars of the Earth, The Great Divorce, Moby Dick, That Hideous Strength, Left Behind, Lord of the Rings, Abraham Lincoln, Holy Ground, A Case For Christ, How Now Shall We Live, Making Sense of it All, The Bully Pulpit, Benjamin Franklin, Love and Respect, |