Evaluation preparatory...

So for the evaluation; I wanted to go back and look at the questions that we where asked for the interim critique; and see how my answers have developed (if at all) and what has changed, and what I have learned in the distance between the two...

How effective is your research & self directed projects in helping you to develop your understanding of what you need to learn?

How does what your doing, tie in with what you want?

• I want to work in an art therapy-style field; maybe not as an actual art therapist; but looking at art as therapeutic; whilst keeping my own practice.
• I do want to make use of the colleges facilities whilst i am a student here; learn as much as i can; bot about my practice and different techniques but also about myself as a person (personal ethics, interest in society etc).
• I have always wanted to be my own boss; I hate being a puppet for someone else.

What have I learned?

• I need to dedicate more personal time to my practice than i have been.
• I ned to draw/paint as much as I can (maybe daily); to keep me inspired and not scared of getting back into it.
• I have a huge interest in working in three dimensional form.
• The community/teaching aspects of my work should be kept in mind at all times, however the theory should not take over my practical work.
• Creative writing is something I need to get more involved in once again, as it is another release that can be good for me.
• Blogging, in the normal sense; does not work for me.

What do i need to rethink?

• How I am going to record my future work [my own form of a blog, sketchbook etc].
• How involved do i want my community projects to be involved with my practice?
• initial approach to a project.

What have you learnt about independent study, identifying personal strengths and needs, setting goals and managing your workload?

What have you learned about yourself as a learner?

• I can work well when left to own devices within reflective thinking and ideas development, but could use feedback in the after-process.
• I NEED to timetable myself.
• i can do something for a long time [eg drawing] but leave it for just a little or long while and get scared to go back to the medium through fear of being bad; when what i really want is it to be like riding a bike.
• Scheduling library/theory time is essential for m as a practitioner.
• Having another person to work in the presence of is not necessary but helps.
• Becoming much more hand-on!
• I should record things as and when they happen.
• Planned workshop times motivate me much better.
• Mini-briefs work well for me.