I put together a video that I thought you might enjoy. I'm going to share the strategies I use as a student in order to get the most out of an art class — whether it's online or in-person. Whether it's live or pre-recorded. Whether it's one session or many.
This video is part of my "Your Creativity Coach" series. If you're interested in group coaching with me, join my Super Learner Group.
The main takeaways from the video are:
- There are three stages of taking an art class: prep, the in-class experience, and follow-up.
- Most people skip the first and the last stages.
- In the prep stage, be thoughtful about the supplies you select, set goals, and do a warm-up.
- During class engage with the material, ask questions, and take notes.
- After class, be sure to follow-up within 24-hours in order to retain the maximum amount of information.
Did I miss anything? Let me know!
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
This is brilliant, thank you! Off to tell friends about this…in the next 24 hours : )
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Such great advice. Thank you
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Agreed – I am always an avid note-taker!
Telling someone is my key to remembering a book I’ve just read – so makes sense it works for art projects too! Thanks Julie.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats great!
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Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Loved this.What a great idea to take notes while watching the videos. Could not find the goal setting link. Thanks so much for all that you share.
Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Thank you Julie! Great advice/reminder for me, and I’m sure everyone 🙂
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Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
Im so glad you found it useful!
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
I would add: To integrate what you’ve learned in a workshop, consider writing as your best learning tool. Writing is the friend who’s always there for you, always eager to hear what you have to say. So, for instance, after the workshop or the video, write down, as freely as you can, what you learned. (No pressure here: the writing doesn’t have to be “good”; no one else will ever see it.) If you learned a particular technique, you might write it as a set of instructions for someone else (or yourself at a later time!).
With this writing, you can also reflect on what you learned. For instance, “I liked when the instructor talked about making time to craft every day. That’s something I need to do.” Or, “I thought her comments about Distress Inks were dumb. I’ve used those inks a lot, and they work much better than she said they do.”
Ask yourself questions: What might I do with this new technique? How does it fit in with other techniques I love? What if I tried doing “this” with it? What if I tried it with this material or that tool?
While talk is useful as a learning tool, once spoken, those words evaporate. Keep your reflections in a notebook, though, and you’ll have them always, as a stimulus or a guide to future learning.
Great tip!
Great tip!
Great tip!
Great tip!
Great tip!
Great tip!
Great tip!
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Thank you so much for this Julie. I am still taking watercolor classes on line through Adult Education offered at the city’s junior classes. These started because of covid and the older adults loved them and still do. I am thankful for the teacher who is willing to prepare and teach through Zoom. So your suggestions as to how to get the most out of these classes is super helpful. I try to prepare but do not participate very much so this was a great reminder and I love taking notes.
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
Im so glad that you found these tips useful!
thank you Barbara!
thank you Barbara!
thank you Barbara!
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thank you Barbara!
thank you Barbara!
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
thank you Julie! i have never considered this.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.
Even if you don’t ever refer back to the notes, the very act of taking sometimes helps to lodge the material more firmly in your memory – a little tip I learned in a college psychology class. The theory is that the process of using more than one of the body’s senses or functional systems at the same time (listening and writing it down) increases focus and reinforces the memory.