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

Fri May 20 01:16:35 UTC 2016

Marie Porter's book is out of print, so you are lucky if you can find it.

Marie Porter's niece -Laurie Porter was a board member here when we started out.  She is the teacher of our first class done on the NFB Krafters Division.

Joyce Kane

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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

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From: Valerie via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:08 PM
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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
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>>>> 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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