Thursday, January 14, 2010

Welcome to My Creativity Blog!

I'm currently taking a creativity class as part of a Gifted and Talented Endorsement. Part of the class requirement is to keep a creativity journal. As I've done this, my mind has started to "run amok" with ideas!

During my sophmore year of high school, I decided to pursue a degree in fashion design. I've been sewing since I was about five years old, and according to my mom, designing since I was about two years old! There was only one small problem with the plan to study fashion design. I hadn't taken a art class since junior high and I was going to need a portfolio in order to apply to the school (The American College for the Applied Arts, LA, CA - now, it's The American Intercontinental University), anyway, that meant that my junior year I took studio art and my senior year, *ah, my senior year* I took art every other period! It was fabulous!!!! I also applied and got into the school early (mid junior year).

Since my early drop out from ACAA after only one trimester, I dabbled a little here and there with art, but kinda just gave up, so sad! Once it was time to finish a bachelor's degree, I decided that pursuing art would be too expensive as a poor college student, and thus ended up with a BA in Art History. In February 2009, I took a pottery class that turned the creative juices flowing again and now a creativity class, so, it's time to live out the dream of being creative and artistic!! This blog is my first formal attempt at doing so.

The blog may not have very many pictures at first, mainly just ideas and a place to write them down. Hopefully, in the near future, I will start pursuing this dream in a more finite manner and you and I can truly enjoy the artistic endeavors of being creative! Remember, you were born from the greatest Creator and since we are created in his image, then we too must be creative (James Christensen)! Just do what you love, do your best to think outside of the box, solve problems in new ways, take up a new hobby, etc. The possibilities are infinite!
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Creativity Journal

Creativity: to create something novel and appropriate to the situation (see post: "What is Creativity," December 11, 2009)*

1. Create something out of the word simcha (joy/happiness/festivities/celebrations/etc)

2. Finish my chairs (See post, "Update: My Chairs")

3. Pottery

4. Start a children's Art class

5. Teach Art at a Women's Correctional Facility

6. Come up with assignments for the American Arts packet

7. Change the assignments in the Drama Costuming packet - the students will create 4-5 female and male costumes from the 11 time periods included in the packet, plus the final instead of only writing (copying and pasting) info about each time period.

8. Create a book exchange/book club for illiteracy/aliteracy

9. Learn Art in a foreign country

10. Write a book

11. Start a children's magazine for children by children and publish it on the web.

12. Create trees and hands (not necessarily together, but maybe?)

13. Blog book - only novel in the sense that it's my own writing!

14. Create a chess set (even though I don't personally play chess, lol!)

15. S'mores with a twist

16. 3D art - I admire other forms of art, but I personally only truly enjoy the physicallity and manipulative quality of 3D art. There's something truly living in 3D art that I miss in 2D art.

17. Sign language hands (alphabet/words)

18. Hands of twisted metal coils

19. use different types of materials to create imprints in clay (wire mesh)

20. A shelf/centerpiece holder (a couple of bricks on the bottom, long, thin wood, 12" width laying on top, block (thicker than the bricks on the bottom - 6"?) in middle, and a short piece of wood on the very top).

21. vase (fill baggie with rice and seal the bag, wheel thrown then carefully squish).

22. 3D collage out of meaningful paper.

23. Babushka doll style vase with side cutout (possibly put a piece of glass in the side opening)

24. Babushka dolls - make smallest one first, with side opening and something inside(?), then the next biggest - place small one inside next biggest when done with the bottom of it and secure the two together. Continue this process with side openings in each so that you can see all the way through to the inside "jem" in the smallest one!

25. atlas - split into pieces and reassemble into something new - mobile? encase each piece in between glass sheets, hang as a put together puzzle.

26. paper dolls & scenery out of different types of paper, paintings, collages, maps, etc.

27. A storm cloud with a silvery lining (mobile?) ceramic/paper mache

28. "baby ducklings" for each child, somehow uniquely different somehow, name and date of birth.

29. "stained glass" with veggies/fruits & other natural things. Lacquered and soldered.

30. Men's dress shirts with faux cuff links printed onto the cuffs or fancy/fun buttons to replace the buttons on a standard dress shirt. button clips? a button cover-up to go over existing buttons without changing the button itself.

31. A pottery wheel bat that has form attachments in order to create smooth indentations in the "bottom" of the piece being thrown.

32. "Quilt" of the six-day-Christian-creation-period.

33. A dollhouse book for paper dolls! such a cool idea!!

34. print your own fabric using a large "rolling pin" stamp?

35. Cloth nesting dolls

36. map topography - cut out all of the countries and continents and islands, layer then largest to smallest hang them slightly apart. From an actual map? or traced out onto something else?

*Please be creative and use your own ideas and not mine. Although if you are inspired by my ideas and the inspiration and not the idea itself is used, then by all means, use the inspiration!!

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I love visiting with family and friends, reading, teaching, art, and day dreaming about world travel, especially going to Ireland someday. In 2009, I earned a MAED in Elementary Education. In addition, I completed both the Reading and Elementary Math Endorsements during the 2013-2014 school year. Currently, I teach first grade and love it!

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