[Nfb-krafters-korner] The Perkins Braille Drawings Book

ncbootman at gmail.com ncbootman at gmail.com
Thu May 19 18:45:28 UTC 2016 

Hint: For a small fee, you can request it to be brailled for you. The price 
is incredibly good.

Greg

-----Original Message----- 
From: Valerie via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:55 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Cc: Valerie
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] The Perkins Braille Drawings Book

Yes, I do have a membership. Going to check it out. Sounds awesome! I used 
to make waves by braillaing dot 3, dot 2, dot 1 and then dot 4, dot 5 and 
dot 6.
Thanks for the tips.
Valerie

> On May 19, 2016, at 10:36 AM, ncbootman--- via Nfb-krafters-korner 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Valerie,
>
> Do you have a membership to Bookshare? They have a book by Marie Porter 
> called Braillables that supposedly does talk about technique. The Perkins 
> book was written by Judy Dixon I think and was just instructions. It is 
> going to end up being your imagination and creativity. For example, you 
> can take the basic sailboat and use a line of e and I or en and in before 
> and after it to show the surface of the water. You can make this line as 
> choppy as you want or as smooth as you want even using a c or colon to 
> indicate flat. The boat can be level with the water so water could come 
> aboard any minute or riding high in the water so if you jump off the boat, 
> you have a long way to go before hitting water. If you want waves breaking 
> higher than the boat, make it happen. Want two boats? Put them. People on 
> the boats might be a letter l. Is it a boat wreck where they are headed 
> for each other or a nice beautiful day. Want a cloud? They can be any 
> shape up in the top. As blind people, we have been taught to be exact. A 
> braille letter is exactly like it is. No messing around with it at all. A 
> print letter can be very clear lines of block type or can be all curly and 
> pretty and decorative as in caligraphy. The central idea has to stay. But, 
> then sighted people can decorate. So, they see things differently. You 
> have to let yourself see things with all sorts of possibilities and find a 
> way to create that possibility. There is no right way or wrong way. Only 
> Valerie's way or my way. Bob Ross is a very famous painter. He would 
> always say it's your world. Let anything you want live in your world 
> whereever you want however you want. In other words, you can't make a 
> mistake because whatever you do is right because it is what you intended.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Valerie via Nfb-krafters-korner
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:08 PM
> To: sandragayer7 at gmail.com ; List for blind crafters and artists
> Cc: Valerie
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] The Perkins Braille Drawings Book
>
> I honestly have no idea what the book contains aside from the Braille 
> pictures themselves. I think it must have some kind of instructions 
> because my sister read a few lines on a page, but only briefly. I don’t 
> know if it contains anything about technique for making your own designs, 
> though I wish it did. I still need to call Perkins to see what happened.
> Valerie
>> On May 19, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Sandra Gayer via Nfb-krafters-korner 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Valerie,
>> Does the book only have instructions? Aren't there any pages about
>> technique relating to coming up with your own designs?
>>
>> Very best wishes,
>> Sandra.
>>
>> On 5/19/16, minh ha via Nfb-krafters-korner
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I would call Perkins and ask them about this. I know the book exists
>>> entirely in braille because a friend of mine has a copy, so they might
>>> have simply sent you the wrong version.
>>>
>>> On 5/18/16, Valerie via Nfb-krafters-korner
>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> Yeah, I thought the same thing, and I planned to call them today, but I
>>>> live
>>>> in California, so by the time I realized something was not right, it 
>>>> was
>>>> 3:00 my time, and since they’re 3 hours ahead of me, I figured their
>>>> offices
>>>> would be closed. I’m going to call tomorrow during my break between my 
>>>> art
>>>> history and sculpture classes.
>>>> Valerie
>>>>> On May 18, 2016, at 6:32 PM, ncbootman--- via Nfb-krafters-korner
>>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Valerie,
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to contact Perkins and talk to a person. It is my 
>>>>> understanding
>>>>> that the instructions should be in braille. If they are not, they need 
>>>>> to
>>>>> make this more clear.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Valerie via Nfb-krafters-korner
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:11 PM
>>>>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>>>>> Cc: Valerie
>>>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] The Perkins Braille Drawings Book
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I bought my own copy of the “Drawing with Your Perkins” book a week or 
>>>>> so
>>>>> ago, and I just got it today. I asked them to give me a Braille copy 
>>>>> of
>>>>> the book, and I expected that the instructions would be brailled too.
>>>>> Either this assumption is mistaken, or they gave me a print copy after
>>>>> all. In between each of the Braille drawings are a few print pages. My
>>>>> question is: Does the print version just show pictures of the Braille
>>>>> dots, or does it have the actual Braille drawings in it for 
>>>>> demonstration
>>>>> purposes? My sister has partial sight, and she said that the print 
>>>>> pages
>>>>> in between had instructions for each picture on them, but I couldn’t 
>>>>> find
>>>>> them written in Braille. I knew how to make most of the drawings in 
>>>>> the
>>>>> book because I have the Marie Porter PDF file, and they have similar
>>>>> drawings in each—something else I didn’t know—but I had hoped for 
>>>>> further
>>>>> direction, and maybe even a little more background info on how Braille
>>>>> Pictures came to be. If the text is only in print in both versions, 
>>>>> they
>>>>> should just give you an option to download an electronic copy. Once I 
>>>>> got
>>>>> that, I could then braille them out myself. I use my Braille Note to 
>>>>> read
>>>>> the instructions for each drawing, and Braille it out line by line 
>>>>> with
>>>>> my
>>>>> Perkins Braillewriter. Even the title of the book isn’t labeled in
>>>>> Braille, which I found surprising. Is it meant to be specifically for
>>>>> Braille transcribers who want to Braille out pictures for us blind 
>>>>> folk?
>>>>> Mostly I’m just confused, but I’m going to keep the book because it’s
>>>>> bound a little better than the sketches I made and may last longer as 
>>>>> a
>>>>> result.
>>>>> Hope you all are well.
>>>>> Take care,
>>>>> Valerie
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