I was contacted by an art student at a local college the other week asking if I'd help her with her project on creative processes and one of the questions was why I chose the path I did. It was quite strange to go back 30 plus years and answer that!
Self Taught only
Self taught and the odd short course
Series of longer courses but no qualification
FE qualification (A Level, OND etc)
HE qualification (HND, Degree etc)
Apprenticeship
Self Taught then Qualification
Self Taught then Apprenticeship
Natural talent from birth
something else (please say)
I was contacted by an art student at a local college the other week asking if I'd help her with her project on creative processes and one of the questions was why I chose the path I did. It was quite strange to go back 30 plus years and answer that!
a recessive artistic gene, OCD and dogged determination - what skills I have anyhow: work in progress
I ticked self and the odd course, if 1 term of a City & Guilds counts as the odd course!
Starting an apprenticeship I was told to forget anything learnt at college...the "mentor" taught his way.
Later on you realise your " mentor" only knew so much...& you progress past that & still always accept the fact there are things you don't know or haven't realised just as a "stone setter"
Trying to master everything & be a complete jeweller in one lifetime isn't possible.
Yep, and you start to realise that it can limit you, yet you still have so much to kern from them!!
or what ever your aspect of the trade is....mine is closest to the 'model maker'....and absolutely....mastering everything in a lifetime is impossible!!! (if only)!!!!
It's the development of tools that have changed the game rather than the theory...a lot quicker & easier these days.
That's true up to a point Chris but the ability to design comes into it too.
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