Classics with twists
Alyssa Pyror ’21 talks about her artistic life
Samayya Muhammad
Imagine you see a girl in front of you. She welcomes you into her stationed booth, hasn’t yet said a word to you, but she asks you to sit. You watch as she pulls out her materials and you sit and wait to see the outcome of the magic that she bears within her small frame. After minutes of her hacking away at the sheet of paper, you look to see what she was drawing. The piece that you see is more beautiful than anything you’ve ever seen. She creates series of cartoons that showed the story of you sitting in the booth. You are impressed with this piece, art filled with imagination and creativity.
Alyssa Pryor ’21 is an introverted girl who is talented in many ways, she especially loves reading and arts.
“I don’t really do much,” Pryor said. Although, her actions speak differently. She spends her free time drawing. Pryor draws realistic and comics. According to her, she draws her friends and family often along with cartoon.
Pryor said she draws her friends and family because it gives her practice. Other times she says she’ll just start to draw a face that comes into her imagination. “I’ll just develop it’s own personality and make it my own characters,” Pryor said.
Pryor said she can really express herself through art. As for her medium, she uses more pencil sketches, and sometimes she’ll use markers and colored pencils.
Pryor said she has several artist who inspire her works. Some of which are older in time and some current. Even though she talks about drawing realistic portraits she appreciates and enjoys modern art. Some of her favorite modern artist are, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci.
One thing that Pryor enjoys in addition to art is piano. “Fur Elise” by Ludwig van Beethoven is one of her favorites. She says that even though she played that when she just started learning piano and now she plays it now from memory. Along with her enjoying to play classical pieces she likes to teach herself how to play pop songs. If she doesn’t have sheet notes she will play by ear.