First Blog Post: Get to know me!
Hello friends! Welcome to my first blog post!
This first post will mainly specifically be an introduction of who I am, explaining what my business is and what you can expect moving forward in these blog posts.
My name is Ty and I am from Ohio, good ole “double O”. I’m currently 25 years old, and I’m a freelance creator mainly focusing on acrylic on canvas art but I’m always exploring new styles, new mediums, and new ideas.
Meet the artist!
Me and art go way back to the early days when I was first able to pick up a crayon and make a mark on a piece of paper.. or walls.. yeah we won’t mention that around my mother.
Little artsy me (approx 7 years old)
But while, I’ve always loved art and the idea of being an artist, somewhere along the early school grade era of 3rd-6th grade the flame that once burned inside of me to become an artist darkened.
I don’t know if my younger self came up with the conclusion that becoming an artist just wasn’t realistic, or if someone told me that I should think of something else to be just in case that didn't work out.
Either way, it discouraged me from really pursuing art and instead, I set out to be a pediatric psychologist. I knew I wanted to help people, I love kids, it seemed feasible.
Art was never really taught to me.. in grade school, I took the basic art classes that everyone takes, in middle school I took an art class one year, high school came and I didn’t take art again until senior year and even then it was an “independent study” that had a whopping 5 students in the class.
So anything I learned about art I just picked up the basics from any class that encouraged me in it and everything else was learned outside the classroom on my own.
I grew up an only child so art worked perfectly for me as far as entertaining myself. I didn’t want toys I wanted the artist's wooden briefcase with cheap markers, paints, and pencils all so beautifully organized in color order.
Truly aesthetically pleasing for me, to the point I almost didn’t even want to take any of it out. Of course I did though otherwise we wouldn’t be here today.
I found after my first year of college, seemingly nothing was making me happy. Not my job, not my major, not my career path I was aiming for, nothing,
For about 3-4 years, I became increasingly depressed, I was not sure as to why but I just felt like I couldn’t figure out my why and what is my purpose.
In late 2019, right before COVID, I was seriously depressed and suicidal. One night I was at the lowest point in my life and I’m not sure what compelled me to do this but it honestly saved my life.
I had a small cheap canvas and some watery low-quality paints I’m not sure even came from, but I sat for hours with my phone on airplane mode and painted a picture of SpongeBob.
My first real painting.
Seems pretty insignificant I know, besides me leaving out a lot of details leading to that point to save you having to read my entire life story, it was the first real-time I sat and painted. I had never painted before, I only ever used pencils, sharpies, and crayons.
So for it to be my first real painting and it turned out better than I thought it was going to I felt this is what I’m meant to do.
It was at that moment I questioned why I haven’t been creating every day all along. Why haven’t I been nourishing this gift that I have that brings me genuine happiness?
In 2020 I was in the driveway of my grandpa’s house and as I was playing with chalk with my little cousins, I drew a fantastic Winnie the Pooh and cloud that had a rainbow pouring from its mouth.
Underneath the cloud, I wrote “Tyistight Creatives” for the first time and it was then that my idea for my business was born.
The first time I wrote out Tyistight Creatives, the manifestation of my small business.
I wasn’t happy in life because I didn’t keep art as the inner focus of my life. I was ideally running away from everything I was meant to be because I felt what I wanted to be wasn’t “good enough”.
So from that point on, I kept focusing on painting and creating. And then it happened! I was able to sell my first painting. (One of many)
That was my aha moment. I CAN be an artist. So now that I have gotten that out the way, I introduce to you Tyistight Creatives LLC!
Tyistight Creatives LLC 2022
What is Tyistight Creatives? So glad you asked.
I’m on a journey to find my artistic voice and style and use my art to connect and build a community of people who believe in my passion and mission to help the world..help ourselves.. help each other achieve the happiness that heals.
Tyistight Creatives represents:
- the importance of mental health
-happiness heals (share happiness)
-creating freely
Design available in shop!