[TAGS] Contents of TAGS Digest, Vol 12, Issue 1

Fri Feb 8 17:20:15 UTC 2019

Hi Mike,

Thank you so much for appreciating my paintings.  I am so humbled to
read your .  response. Please let me know if it would be okay to
directly send you the images of the other two paintings to your email.
It is absolutely great to know about your work.  I wonder how audio
can be incorporated to the 3D work you create.  As for "Please Touch
the Art" by Mosesian Centre for the Arts, how I wish I could be a part
of it. But that's around the same time I am planning to organize a
workshop and an exhibit here at my work place in India.  Hopefully I
will be able to participate in it next year. But thank you so much for
the information anyway.
I will surely look into using clear lacquer for making my artwork
robust. I did check the link you sent. I would need to explore it more
and see how it will help me. I hope to keep in touch with you.
Thank you and have a good day!

With regards,
Aishwarya

On 2/8/19, Mike Kolitsky via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello again Aishwarya, just did a quick search for methods to spray clear
> lacquer to "harden" a delicate 3D artwork and came up with the following
> discussion of this approach published by Jean Tripier.  Check out the
> article at http://www.tripier.com/how-to-coat-your-art-with-resin/ which
> covers use of several resin types.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be a
> quick spray process and a question asking if there was a company that would
> do the spraying process came back with a negative answer of not knowing a
> company that would do that.  Not sure if this approach to "hardening" your
> more delicate work to make them more robust for touching would work but
> might be worth exploring as your work is so attractive and would be a gift
> to be able to touch what you have created.
>
> Mike
>
> CEO, nextgenEmedia
> http://www.nextgenEmedia.com/kolitskycv.html
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>> 1. Tactile paintings (Aishwarya Pillai)
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>> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:35:35 +0530
>> From: Aishwarya Pillai <aishwarya3711 at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: [TAGS] Tactile paintings
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am Aishwarya and i'm new to this list. I work as a Rehabilitation
>> Counselor and I'm also into tactile paintings for blind persons. I
>> was looking to connect with blind artists from around the world. In
>> this regard, I had written to few centres, One of them is NFB. That's
>> when i got to correspond with Lou Ann who was kind to let me know
>> about TAGS list.
>> If i may introduce more about myself, I was struck blind 10 years ago.
>> One of my interests at that time was pencil sketching. Unfortunately
>> I gave it up as I couldn't pursue it any further. Last year, I
>> happened to visit a painting gallery in my city. To my disappointment
>> I could not enjoy any of the paintings there as all of them were 2
>> dimensional. That's when i thought of doing tactile paintings.
>> I personally believe that art is a form of expression and it should be
>> experienced by everyone including blind persons. So I started working
>> on tactile paintings from there on. My first task was to define
>> colors in a way that it would represent an emotion or meaning. For
>> example, when I say red, it may represent love, passion on the
>> positive side and anger on the negative side. My second task was to
>> choose material for the tactile elements of the painting. Combining
>> both, I was able to paint 4 tactile paintings. I am planning to do
>> many more as days go by. I am also in the process of organizing a
>> workshop and an exhibition at my work place for blind persons so that
>> they not only learn how to do it themselves but also touch and
>> experience it. My aim through these programs is to bring them and the
>> sighted community together to bridge the gap between the two so that
>> they can enjoy art under one roof.
>> I have attached four images of my paintings to this email. Below is a
>> description of each one of them for blind persons on this list.
>> Happy Blossoms:
>> It has blue background and four yellow flowers. The reason I selected
>> blue is because it represents gloom and I chose yellow for the flowers
>> because it represents happiness. I used dry leaves for the petals.
>> The center of the flower is a small circle of golden colored beads.
>> The message it gives away is that despite the sadness in one?s life,
>> there would always come a moment of happiness that would surely
>> blossom!
>> An evening in Paris
>> The background elements of this painting are a blue wall and a table.
>> As for the tactile foreground, towards the left-hand side, there is a
>> burning candle on a stand and a beaded chain hanging from it. The
>> bottom end of the chain is broken. So few beads are scattered around
>> two roses that are placed on the table. Towards the top right-hand
>> side, a painting frame of the Eiffel tower appears to be hanging on
>> the wall. I used ice-cream sticks, beads and silver foil for the
>> candle stand, mixture of glue, water and tissue paper for the candle,
>> colored paper for the roses and the painting frame of the Eifel tower.
>> Caribbean feast:
>> This is a painting of a beach with a sunset sky, the sea and the sand
>> with two coconut trees. I used reddish orange color for the sky and
>> blue for the beach. The sand is real and was glued to the canvas. As
>> for the coconut trees, I used silver foil to make its trunks, one
>> longer than the other. I later layered them with sheets of blank
>> paper and colored them brown. As for the leaves I used thick paper,
>> cut it in the right shape and colored them green. I also glued
>> coconuts that were made of silver foil and tissue paper and glued them
>> to the trees. Finally, I cut paper like a shape of a flying bird,
>> colored it black and glued it on the sky.
>> Great Expectations:
>> It has fenced dry yellow-brown grass, dark grey sky, a lightning bolt,
>> a hut and a windmill. The grass is made of paper that was colored and
>> cut into thin conical shapes, the fencing is made of ice-cream sticks
>> and silver foil, the hut is made of paper and silver foil, the
>> windmill is made of a bead, paper coffee cup and straws and the
>> lightning bolt is made of silver foil. The message that this painting
>> gives away is that although one has gone through bad times, good times
>> are yet to come. The dry grass represents bad times whereas the
>> lightning bolt reminds one that showers are soon to come, so one can
>> expect great things to happen!
>>
>> I am currently looking to connect to other blind artists so that we
>> can exchange ideas and share experiences. It would be nice to know
>> what you think of these paintings. I'm sorry if my email was too long,
>> going to end it for now. Looking forward to connecting to you all.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Aishwarya
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