[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille pictures

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I hope you are patting his head, too.
 
I found a place out on the west coast that sold Braille paper in different  
colors beside white and off white.  It was interesting.  I think it  had 
blue,.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 7/7/2013 1:41:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
b.butterfly at comcast.net writes:

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 
-----Original Message-----
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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