Creative Thinking Skills

My artifact connects to Creative Thinking Skills. It connects to this Core Competency because this Final Project required a lot of creative thinking in order to develop my own unique ideas and create a design for my project. Even though this project is not yet complete (hasn’t been glazed yet), I showed this when I wrote my Planning sheet for this Final Project.

On the planning sheet I made notes about shape, size, patterns, additive/deductive work, use of colours, etc. that I wanted for my design. My planning sheet also consisted of a few sketches of how I envision I want my project to look like once its rendered. For my drawing/sketches I also tried to show different angles and put arrows where specific ideas take place.

For example, I broke down the whole project and drew separate parts of the project. My Project is a fruit juicer that is shaped as a turtle. I split it apart and drew/wrote details about the base/bowl, the head and neck/spout (where the juice will pour out of), the strainer in the neck that will prevent any pulp or seeds from being poured out, the legs/arms/flippers, and the triangular juicer part. I had to make note of what would be hand sculpted and what wold be added on with slip versus what is deducted by scratching/carving pieces and details out. I also had to keep in mind of who I was making this piece for so I could think of some meaning that could connect my project to that person. For instance, my final project is being made for my aunt how always makes fresh fruit, margaritas, and went to Hawaii with me to see the sea turtles.

All of this planning and creative thinking that was used to create my Final Ceramics Project connects to the Creative Thinking Core Competency.