[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille pictures

[Becky Frankeberger]

Someone sighted correct me, please, but it seems to me that if you say
Braille on blue paper that the bumpse would look a shade off, possibly
lighter. My mom who is not blind has all her life been attracted to tactile
things.  So the white on white card she handed me was a puzzle.  Why would
this card attract a sighted person if there was not some shading
differences. To me under those bright lights of that card shop, the white on
white card looked like white on off white, as the bumps seemed lighter or
maybe the light caught it as lighter and it actually wasn't.  

Does paper dye bleed into the inner paper? If not, then certainly the blue
paper brailled would look different then the flat paper.  

I am just picking blue out of the air. I have never seen blue Braille paper,
just tan and white Braille paper.

Becky and her head full of mush this morning, and Jake patting my hand 
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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of River Woman
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 4:44 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille pictures

Paulette has a good point here - about what it means to "see" something. It
is not just sighted people, it is all people who just want to have a quick
look at something. To "look" at something is just a quick flash, and on you
go to the next thing. "Seeing" is a very slow process, it takes a lot of
time. It is medetative, and requires time and the use of all of the senses. 
We LOOK, but we don't SEE, and that goes for everyone until they begin to
learn HOW to SEE.
I love Joyce's response, about FEELING the picture - because it does require
using another sense beyond that quick LOOK with the eyes.

I think that anyone who wants to make any kind of art can do it. This is one
way for those who are interested in it, and of course so many other ways of
expressing creativity are explored by folks on this list. The variety of
ways to create are endless.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille pictures


> You can teach them to feel them, just like you and me!
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 7/6/2013 8:02:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> paulette at evickery.com writes:
>
> Hi  all,
>
>
>
> I absolutely love these braille pictures. But, what is the  point of 
> sharing them with sighted people? They will just say that they are  
> hard to see because they are the same color as the paper they are on. 
> Also,  how can sighted children draw them if they are hard to see. 
> Sighted people  are so, well, sight dependent, they don't want to do 
> anything else but look  at something.
>
>
>
> Paulette
>
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