BLOG ENTRY NUMBER ONE: So I’ve Captured Your Attention?
Why Hello there! My name is…
Alyssa
Danielle
Overmier
…and I hail from a small town called Liberty Cetner, OH. I am the oldest in my family and the first in my family to be going to college. I am a freshman at Bowling Green State University with an intended major of Art Education-2D Studies, and I could not be happier. All my life I have wanted to be a teacher. I love people and I get along with everyone and anyone. It is very rare that I am ever shy around people and because of that it is very easy for me to make new friends.
I grew up in a creative family environment, and have been expressing my love for art for as long as I can remember. When I was little, I was often found running into my grandma’s house just to find my drawer full of markers and coloring books. I would spend hours upon hours coloring and drawing pictures. There wasn’t much question in my mind about how much I loved art. It came easy to me and I loved sitting down and redrawing what I had seen. In classes, my teachers would push me to do better and to better myself and I loved the challenges. In my high school I was voted the “Outstanding Senior Artist for 2008”.
My favorite medium of art would have to be my colored pencils. I had never really gotten into drawing with colored pencils until my junior year in High School. I love the way that the colors can flow together and blend and how you can make something so realistic out of strange colors. With all of my drawings I loved being able to go outside and find my own sources. While finding pictures online are nice to draw, it makes it a little bit more personal when you’re drawing a flower you took a picture of that you found in a garden. My biggest pet peeve in drawing was always drawing faces because I feared I would mess up someone’s nose or teeth. Which is why when I drew a face it was usually my own, and it could be called an artistic “twist”.
I am someone who prides themselves on being a little bit strange and I would never change that for the world. It is the quirks in your life that make you who you are and you should never change that about yourself. Being different is usually not an utterly terrible thing,
and I love that about myself.