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...