1. My essential question is:
What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?
2. The third answer to my essential question is simplicity.
3. Examples/ evidence:
- Ex. If we were having a wedding, and it was a simple black and white theme, you would not want to have fireworks made of fondant and the whole cake covered in flowers, it would not only look like a hot mess, but it would also look to busy and complicated for anyone to really enjoy.
- Evidence: My interview #3, with my mentor, Ashley McNeal. She had mentioned to me that we want to keep things nice a beautiful, but at the same time, keep it simple and clean.
- Ex. Simplifying as much as we can in an order for a cake is one of the best ideas because we want to be able to do the order without having to call and bother the customer by calling them if it seems to complicated to the cake decorator. We make sure that is the case in all of the orders we do in the bakery.
4. The main source that helped me reach this answer if my mentor, Ashley. She always tells me that when we take an order for a cake, that we want to stress that keeping the design simple is important so that we do scramble in the bakery, and get confused on what is written down on the order itself.
5. I plan to study more on other cake decorators styles to broaden my horizon about different cake decorating styles. I hope doing this helps me find my niche in cake decorating.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Blog #17: Interview #4 Questions
1. What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?
2.When you sculpt, is their any process you have that helps you with complicated sculpting projects?
3. When their is confusion with an order, what is the best way to solve the confusion?
4. What is the best part about doing a new order?
5. When you take an order, what do you usually talk about with the customer?
6. What is your mentality when cake decorating?
7. Do you personally think that improvisation is an important skill to have as a cake decorator and why?
8. How do you determine the price of a certain sculpt?
9. How do you keep up with all of the orders that you do?
10. What is most interesting about doing wedding cakes?
11. Have you ever had any orders where you had to improvise and why?
12. Do you think that simplicity can be a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
13. Why do you think that color is such an important factor in a cake order?
14. Have their been any instances where you had to do change what you were already doing on a cake order? What happened?
15. I have noticed that you put ribbon on the bottom of some of the cakes. Why is that?
16. When you cover a cake with fondant, what is the most important thing you make sure of?
17. Can you tell me one of the best experiences you have had when doing an order and why?
18. When you finish an order, what are some feelings when you give the cake to the customer and why?
19. Besides being able to sculpt, are their any other important skills that a cake decorator might find useful?
20. What is the best piece of advice you can give to an aspiring cake decorator?
2.When you sculpt, is their any process you have that helps you with complicated sculpting projects?
3. When their is confusion with an order, what is the best way to solve the confusion?
4. What is the best part about doing a new order?
5. When you take an order, what do you usually talk about with the customer?
6. What is your mentality when cake decorating?
7. Do you personally think that improvisation is an important skill to have as a cake decorator and why?
8. How do you determine the price of a certain sculpt?
9. How do you keep up with all of the orders that you do?
10. What is most interesting about doing wedding cakes?
11. Have you ever had any orders where you had to improvise and why?
12. Do you think that simplicity can be a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
13. Why do you think that color is such an important factor in a cake order?
14. Have their been any instances where you had to do change what you were already doing on a cake order? What happened?
15. I have noticed that you put ribbon on the bottom of some of the cakes. Why is that?
16. When you cover a cake with fondant, what is the most important thing you make sure of?
17. Can you tell me one of the best experiences you have had when doing an order and why?
18. When you finish an order, what are some feelings when you give the cake to the customer and why?
19. Besides being able to sculpt, are their any other important skills that a cake decorator might find useful?
20. What is the best piece of advice you can give to an aspiring cake decorator?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Blog #16: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #2
1. My essential question is:
What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?
2. What I have decided to make my second answer to be is color.
3. The reason I believe that color is so significant to my essential question is because of three main reasons. The first reason that color is so important is that color can define what is going on, for example, when you typically think of elegant colors, like white, black, or silver, you would think of a wedding, not typically a birthday or Valentine's day. Another reason that color is so significant is that color can bring life to what can be a possibly dull cake. Just like in any art, not only is the way the artist does his or her painting or photography, without the use of color, it can possibly be a dull and boring image or sculpture. The last reason that color is my answer is because during my research, I had found an article that I plan on using (Click here), it had said the color cannot only add unity and contrast to a design, but the colors we use can actually affect the emphasis you piece has.
4. Like I had said, the link I had mentioned before has definitely helped my realize that color should be my answer, but also from talking to mentor, Ashley, about the topic while working in the bakery.
5. I plan to continue my study on my answer 2 by finding my articles on why color is useful in art, and asking more questions during mentorship to get more information from an expert in the field.
What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?
2. What I have decided to make my second answer to be is color.
3. The reason I believe that color is so significant to my essential question is because of three main reasons. The first reason that color is so important is that color can define what is going on, for example, when you typically think of elegant colors, like white, black, or silver, you would think of a wedding, not typically a birthday or Valentine's day. Another reason that color is so significant is that color can bring life to what can be a possibly dull cake. Just like in any art, not only is the way the artist does his or her painting or photography, without the use of color, it can possibly be a dull and boring image or sculpture. The last reason that color is my answer is because during my research, I had found an article that I plan on using (Click here), it had said the color cannot only add unity and contrast to a design, but the colors we use can actually affect the emphasis you piece has.
4. Like I had said, the link I had mentioned before has definitely helped my realize that color should be my answer, but also from talking to mentor, Ashley, about the topic while working in the bakery.
5. I plan to continue my study on my answer 2 by finding my articles on why color is useful in art, and asking more questions during mentorship to get more information from an expert in the field.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Blog #15: Independent Component 2 Approval
Content:
1. What I am planning on doing for my independent component is working at the same bakery, Cake Mama's, with all the orders that we have each week.
2. My plan to complete the 30 hour requirement will work because I usually work from 2:30 PM - 7:00 PM, which is a 4 hour and 30 minute time frame of work, so if I keep that up for a week and a half, then I would have completed my 30 hours of Independent Component.
3. Since my topic is Pastry art, and I do a lot of cake decorating at the bakery, then the work at the bakery will definitely help me seek the knowledge I need for my 2 hour presentation.
1. What I am planning on doing for my independent component is working at the same bakery, Cake Mama's, with all the orders that we have each week.
2. My plan to complete the 30 hour requirement will work because I usually work from 2:30 PM - 7:00 PM, which is a 4 hour and 30 minute time frame of work, so if I keep that up for a week and a half, then I would have completed my 30 hours of Independent Component.
3. Since my topic is Pastry art, and I do a lot of cake decorating at the bakery, then the work at the bakery will definitely help me seek the knowledge I need for my 2 hour presentation.
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