There's analytics in sports, but there's also artistry. Wake Forest student Kyan Patel has tapped into the creative side of North Carolina's biggest athletes.
Talk about name. So this piece is for um the Texas receiver University of Texas receiver Isaiah Bond image kind of start from the head and just go down and likeness working on the skin tones, facial features kind of the the skin is my favorite part. Kayan Patel is an art and econ student at Wake Forest University. So I always did art my entire life. My mom was an artist. My grandparents are artist. When I got to high school, I started seeing it as like a way I can form new opportunities and connections in different ways. He's done about 50 athlete portraits. The first was his high school friend and former Carolina receiver Andre Green for a different commitment kind of idea. We decided that after he puts the hat on unveil a painting of him in his new uniform, it was on national news. A lot of attention was brought to him like the next days after it didn't take long for the painting to catch the eye of Matt Brown. He invited me down North Carolina. He took me on a tour to the football stadium facilities all that. So he's super cool, super nice guy these days players are commissioning Cayenne for his art because I, this is my first Texas player. So I'm just testing out different colors trying to figure out what the best way to go about this is. Next. He wants to work on selling an additional copy and getting college athletes paid through nil for it to sell a piece of the athlete to some college or university or fan. Um So I'm kind of just trying to take this in a bigger direction where it's kind of more uh beneficial for not just me but the athlete also, he's already done some of the biggest names in the triangle RJ. Armando Tyrese, the entire sports world is this canvas. It's just really cool meeting these people that I've watched my whole life and not being able to work with them, talk to them, meet them. It's been definitely really cool experience, Pat Welter Wrl Sports, Winston, Salem.