When reflecting on the third year, the work I've created in that time and how I went about making it, I've come to realise that perhaps a reason behind the fear I experience with perfectionism in my work is due to setting unrealistic expectations for myself. When having to write a project proposal for another module, I realised how ambitious my goals were; to master oil panting, to learn to stretch paper and mount it to a frame, to make my own frames, to make my own canvases, to master spray painting and air brush painting etc. Now that I've been working consistently through out the year, I realise how outlandish those goals were, as even one of those skills takes a lot of time to master.
Going forward, I will give myself a much easier time in regards the expectations I set for myself and my work's progress. To have achieved all of the goals I set myself would be a fantastic achievement, however it was flawed in regards attainability. Instead, I will give myself one skill to try and hone in on at a time to avoid any feelings of overwhelm and fear. I will continue to challenge myself to carry out 'risky' experiments to ensure I am pushing myself out my creative comfort zone while still setting goals and expectations that are a little more realistic and achievable in regards skill level and time frame.
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