Competency 1 - Creates Personal Images

This competency focuses on your ability to use your observational skills, your imagination and your individual memories in the creation of personal artworks. Your work process is evaluated along side your creativity and originality. And at the same time you are expected to explore and experiment with new possibilities of creation and problem solving. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Competency Key Features: Uses ideas to create a personal work Is open to a stimulus for creation Is receptive to ideas, images, emotions, sensations and impressions evoked by the stimulus Keeps a record of his/her ideas Explores various ways of conveying creative ideas through images Chooses ideas and anticipates his/her creative project Uses transforming gestures and elements of visual arts language Experiments with ways of making his/her idea concrete Makes use of his/her memory of transforming gestures and knowledge of visual arts language Chooses the most meaningful gestures and elements in relation to his/her creative intention Perfects methods for using these gestures and elements Shares his/her experience of personal creation Analyzes his/her creative intention and progress Identifies the important elements of his/her experience and its characteristics Makes comparisons with his/her previous learning Identifies what he/she has learned and the methods used Organizes his/her visual arts production Integrates the result of his/her experiments Shapes the material and language elements and organizes them in space Examines his/her choices of material and language, as related to his/her creative intention Makes adjustments based on artistic choices Refines certain elements, if necessary		Evaluation Criteria Coherence between the creative intention, the shaping of the work and the final product Authenticity of production integrating original and expressive elements Effectiveness of transforming gestures and use of properties of materials Coherence in the organization of image components Degree of integration of periods of reflection and review into the creative experience