HS Art Club: Reflection 1 (LO1 & LO2)

LO1 AWARENESS – Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth.

Students are able to see themselves as individuals with various abilities and skills, of which some are more developed than others.  

LO2 CHALLENGE – Undertaken new challenges & developing new skills.

A new challenge may be an unfamiliar experience or an extension of an existing one. The newly acquired or developed skills may be shown through experiences that the student has not previously undertaken or through increased expertise in an established area.

Growing up around my mother, elder sister and cousins who are all very artistically talented, I’ve developed a keen interest in arts and crafts. From a young age, I’ve enjoyed engaging in origami, photography, sketching, colouring, painting, pottery etc. I’ve even regularly attended art lessons (outside from school) and had recently opened up an Instagram account to capture the art that I create. In fact, during my IGCSE’s I even took Graphic Design, where I learnt and improved my skills in photoshop and adobe illustrator.

Unfortunately, since I’ve begun IB, I haven’t had the chance to regularly partake in my art. Art Club seemed like the perfect opportunity to hone my art skills in a variety of different mediums. Whilst I’ve have been working on my oil and acrylic painting for quite some time, my involvement in this activity has made me aware that an area for growth might be digital art (using my iPad) and I may be able to use some of my graphic design skills to develop it. Therefore, for the following term, a challenge I want to take on is to work on some digital art pieces and consistently update my art account. For instance, I took a photograph of various different tools in the past, and my goal is to attempt to recreate a digital art piece using the application Procreate on my iPad based upon it during this next term.