・One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is…

When painting and making things in art class, I listen to music to help me get ideas. I also tend to listen to music to fit the theme of the thing I am making, as music influences how you feel and what your mind thinks about so much. Listening to songs make me think of stories, and it gets me imagining things and makes me want to create something to show how I feel and what I am thinking. Without music, I think it would be harder for me to create art.

・Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are…

One thing I think that I gained and got better from this course is my ability to be flexible, and experiment with new materials I am not used to. I really did not like if even one thing was off with my artwork, and I would trash it or try to re-do the whole thing (just to be sad again because it did not get any better.) But in this course many of the things I did were things I never had before, so I knew that it was okay if it was not perfect, and I learned to be satisfied with what I can do.

・I appreciate feedback on… and prefer when it comes in the form of…

I appreciate feedback on my work, and I prefer when they do not just tell me what they think is bad about it; I want them to tell me where they think I could grow or what I could change next time to make it better. I also want to be told which parts are good and should be kept, and why they think so. I do want to know how other people see my work, because if it is just me looking at my work, it is only my way of thinking, and a narrow field of vision.