Lily's Arts Award

What leadership skills have you developed? Confidence in my art skills,  and I have helped others achieve similar skills.  I gained more confidence in communicating and being able to make people focus on their drawing. What have you learnt about being a good leader? I need to be confident in what I can do. I learned how to use my personal inspiration and creativity to communicate and teach others about art. Refer back to your original project plan. Did anything happen differently to what you originally planned? If so, what and how? It lasted longer; and I didn't expect to have to help out so much. Is there anything you’d do differently in the future if you were to run the project again? I would add more to my presentation, as explaining certain art skills is difficult to do. What parts of your project plan worked well? Participants were able to follow the structure and participate as I had planned. Was there anything that didn’t work so well? All things worked ...

PLANNING WITH KERRY MY ARTS AWARD MENTOR Why were you working/communicating with them? She has the skills to help and advise me, since she has had past experiences. What did you want to achieve? Did you manage to achieve it? I wanted to achieve leadership skills, and so we planned and assessed my leadership skills, to improve them. I achieved this. Did you have to resolve any issues you hadn’t previously thought about? I didn't think about trial runs. However, I did one, where I followed my own tutorial, so I can ensure that it works well as I wrote it. TEACHING PEOPLE THE SKILL Why were you working/communicating with them? Because they wanted to improve their art skills. What did you want to achieve? Did you manage to achieve it? I wanted to achieve better leadership skills, and confidence in my skillset to teach others. I believe I achieved this. I used a feedback form to assess how the participants felt about my teaching style.  I got very good feedback. Did...

My project:  Teaching a small group of people how to draw a realistic human eye using pencils. I began with an introduction to what I will be teaching.   I asked the participants questions about the topic - what they knew about the human eye, so I could better understand the participants' abilities, and work off that.  This was part of my improving communication skills as I needed to be clear about the process of drawing an eye so that they could follow my instructions. I asked the participants to draw the subject, before I had taught them anything, so I can even better understand their skills, and help them based on their ability. After I asked the participants to try out drawing, I began my explanation of how I draw an eye.  My aim was to pass on the skill that I had previously learned and to encourage their own creativity by encouraging each participant individually to build on their own skills and not just cop...

Who are the participants or main audience for your project? Is there anything specific you need to consider for this audience? The participants will be four people, two people who are in their 70s and have no art background, one participant who is 17 and has an AS level in art and one participant who is 45 and enjoys drawing as a hobby How will you recruit participants? I will recruit participats in person. How will you deliver the project? I will use a powerpoint, and the spoken word to teach the subject. What practical things will you need to organise and how will you do this? (e.g. materials, resources, equipment, space) I will use my art equipment: paper, pencils, pens, rubbers. I will make sure they are up to quality. I will use my own art for reference, and online images for reference. The space I use, I will ask the occupants if the space is free, and if I can use it. What support are you going to need from other people? Who is going to help you and how? I get ad...

I met up with Kerry my Arts Award mentor in January this year to discuss my ideas for my leadership project.  I wondered whether to do an exhibition of my art work or whether to do a teaching session to pass on an art skill. I talked to my Art Teacher at my Friday lesson to perhaps doing an exhibition in his studio, or another option was to teach one of the younger children at the Art Lesson a digital art skill. I decided that I wanted to pass on an art skill to a group of mixed age people and I wanted to complete my Arts Award before the end of July this year. I thought about teaching  making creative sketches and paintings of liquids and objects.  I did a rough sketch of some ideas. My ideas I decided not to do watercolours as it might be hard for people to use their imagination and hard to teach them how to do that. Do I decided to teach the drawing of the human eye. Rough sketch and ideas about teaching the drawing of the human eye Today (24th Apri...

For part D of unit 1 of the silver arts award, I learned about different practitioners of the Arts and about careers and courses in the Arts through a careers and courses evening at Manchester Art school and a Graphic Design Saturday Club, also held from Manchester School of Art. Things I learned at the Graphic Design Club: In the Graphic Design Saturday Club, the different forms of art we learned ranged from typography, lettering, poster design, both digital and physical forms of graphic design, calligraphy and we did some rearranging shapes to make pictures. Various practitioners of graphic design came into the Saturday club to talk about the art form of which they study or work in, this included a typographer, calligrapher, and various graphic designers. I was inspired by the people who did the graphic design talk, since they talked about what forms of graphic design they did, so it made me think about what I wanted to do with my graphic design skills and has inspired me to ...