Cynthia Kingsley-Smith
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//YEAR3COURSEWORK WEEKLY BLOG//


//SEMESTER ONE - PROJECT DEV//
STATEMENT OF INTENT
    → Skills Development Brief
        →  Prelude: Summer Project
       →  WEEKLY 1: PEACHES.
       →  WEEKLY 2: TYPESETTING
       →  WEEKLY 3+4: RESEARCH
       →  WEEKLY 5+6: WOODCUT
       →  Bonus: Digital Thumbnailing Technique.
       →  Development Reflections
    → Creative Conscience Brief
        → Hope is an Act of Resistance: Overview
       → Research
       → Developments
       → Outcome  
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EVALUATION

//SEMESTER TWO - CMRC REALISATION//
   → Responsive Printmaking
        → Commercial Realisation Begins
       → Research
       → Week 1: Silkscreen Planning
       → Week 2: Initial Silkscreen Results
       → Timeplan!
       → Weeks 6+7: Lino Designs
       → Week 8: Review, Plan, Further Prints
       → Week 9: Newspaper Task
       → Week 10: Final Developments / Outcomes  
   → Cheltenham Illustration Awards
        → My Aims
       → Week 3: Gelli Printing
        → Week 4+5: Lino and Digital, Outcomes!
→ COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EVALUATION - 2


→ Reflective Practice Academic Writing
        →  RP1 _ Learning Plan
       →  RP2 _ Reflective Diagrams
       →  RP3 _ Inputs and Outputs
       →  RP4 _ Rich Pictures
       →  RP5 _ Design Philosophies
       →  RP6 _ Thematic Essay
       →  RP7 _ AOI Masterclass
       →  RP8 _ Getting Started as an Illustrator
       →  RP9 _ Specialism Review
       →  RP10 _ Journal / Magazine Review
       →  FINAL SHOW PREP & REVIEW

Timeplan + Review


This week: 

After the easter break, I completed a self-assessment to help me re-define my goals and make sure my time was being spent effectively. 





This helped me decide to start finishing some of my designs. As the way I am working is (intentionally) highly experimental and development focussed, I had fewer outputs that would work for the purposes of doing a critical evaluation on a finished art piece. 

In addition to these self assessments, I make frequent use of google docs to help me break down my tasks and keep track of what I have done. 

For example, here is part of a doc that helped me organise this website and make sure I got everything uploaded.



Here is a doc that I use to break down my “tasks” against the mark scheme, allowing me check off tasks once I felt like I had given a topic ample attention.



Overall, I feel like I’m in an OK place one month before deadline, but I am worried about what work will be appropriate for the final showing considering my experimental approach. I am slowly building up a number of assets via linocuts and screenprints at around a3 size that I believe would look good in a gallery ordered side by side, but I think I’d like to work one piece at an a2 approach, as this large and loud methos suits my study of protest language.
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