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Map your time against the milestones for a major project in advance
Map your time against the milestones for a major project in advance
‘Pretty poor preparation predicts pretty poor performance’
Anonymous art teacher
Everything you do needs to follow the key assessment points:
Everything you do needs to follow the key assessment points:
Exploration and experimentation of materials, techniques and processes
Purposeful development
Refinement
And consideration and evaluation (backwards and forwards facing)
If you plan out in advance for this, you can map the available time against these priorities and make sure that you cover everything. Every step on this journey is important and will therefore also need time. Make sure that you give it enough.
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Remember that you will need time for practical production
Remember that you will need time for practical production
Practical production is 'the name of the game'. You make evidence and score points for the practical evidence of the work that you do. The works that you do is the evidence of your ‘thinking’ and appraisal to art. It is the evidence of your journey and your exploration of visual thinking:
Give yourself plenty of materials so that you have the things at hand to make the decisions and carry out the processes that you need to employ to make your work great.
Give yourself plenty of time to get things right. If time is not a consideration whilst you are ‘making and doing’ then you have got it right. Time becomes an issue when it is a constraint.
Think of simple ways that you can combine time management with simple planning, for example, taking amount of drying times and letting your work dry whilst you do other things that are Fine Art-related or for other subjects.
For example, come in early, paint a background colour in your sketchbook and put it on the rack whilst you go to your first lesson in another subject, then return to the classroom afterwards so that you can begin working with your (by now) dry sketchbook.
Juggle what you do with your other subjects at college through careful planning: identify tasks and the time required
Juggle what you do with your other subjects at college through careful planning: identify tasks and the time required
You can build on the example above to see how you could manage works in stages or work on more than one work simultaneously so that you can move through the works in stages, allowing each to dry so that you continue to be busy but are able to always work on a dry surface.
Working on multiple works simultaneously will also help you to stop being precious about your work and make you work more dispassionately and make better decisions.
Working schematically, process by process will help you to think logically about your work and plan out in advance what you need to do.
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