Salt of the earth

[Enzo]

When I was a kid in school we had poster paint - I think it is also called tempera paint maybe. Large cardboard containers like oastmeal comes in fil of powder you mix with water. Then we painted whatever.

But I recall one thing wwe sometimes did, always on maps it seems. We called them "salt maps" because of this. You painted an area on your map, then poured plain old table salt over the fresh paint. Not only did it stick, but if it was good and wet, the paint would absorb up into the salt. Leave it to dry them blow away the excess later.

This resulted in a hard cake of colored salt. It had a sort of rough matte texture to it as you'd imagine and it took the color well. SO the map had a sort of 3-D quality to it.

HAs anyone else heard of this?


Oh duh!

I just googled salt map... I guess they are alive and well

http://www.richland.k12.wi.us/RES/Doudn ... 20Maps.htm

Though these are a bit different.

[troubleagain]

I don't remember ever doing that. I do remember using that paint a lot, though. On papier mache, too.

[Arneb]

I never did this, but then I totally suck at anything having to do with art (except photography, but I don't think it counts).

But I still own a piece: This was given to me as a birthday present by a former girlfriend's sister. I absolutely love it, and it still hangs beside my desk at home. Notice the very short yet distinctive, umm, male appendage working its way through the feathers down below. Sneaky little guy, ain't he? 8)

[troubleagain]

I never did this, but then I totally suck at anything having to do with art (except photography, but I don't think it counts).

It certainly DOES count! I'm a photographer, too, and it's my only real art.

[Arneb]

I love my photography, too, and certainly it is an art. I was referring to forming a work of art with your own dextrous hands, like carving a bushy, feathered owl out of a piece of dough. It was that regard in which I didn't allow photography to count. I'll make an exception for those who still stand in red-lit darkrooms and fine-splash and rinse their prints into that exactly right combination of brightness, graininess, gradation and contrast they need.

[troubleagain]

Well, by that token, I'm not really much of an artist either. I don't do much in a visual medium other than photography, and while I *can* sing, I"m not an amazing vocalist, and I don't write fiction (other than in Baba O'Riley threads :p ) at all anymore.

[Blue Monster 65]

(kind of OT): My wife is an artist who became an art teacher (elementary level). She's got a background in painting and photography. She does some really cool projects with her students and gives them a pretty good background in art history. I think she's done that salt map stuff with one of her classes for some reason.

I just find it neat that she does stuff with kids and opens their eyes to things they may not get otherwise.

Scott

[Enzo]

Well I've been known to splash around in red-lit dark rooms, but I had no idea that was an art.


Geez Arneb, are you sure you want Oo-blay Onster-may to see your owl cookie?

[Arneb]

Oo-blay Onster-may

Errm, uh, who is THAT?

[MM_Dandy]

Oh, it's Hen-way, of course.

Or maybe it's that guy that eats cookies. And contraptions, and computers, and carrots, and...

[Arneb]

Don't he dare come near my owl...

[Blue Monster 65]

Saaaaaayyyyy ... Arneb! That owl of yours is rather nifty ... would like really ... good ... with a bit of chocolate sauce on it, woudn't you think? Yessss ... I think so ... come over here ... just a little bit closer ... closer ... closer ...

Scott

[Enzo]

Wutt? Arneb not know Ig-pay Atin-lay? Not know Cookie Monster?


Hmm, it may well be a Henway.

[Arneb]

Enzo, Sesame Street is a childhood staple of mine. But keep in mind everything is dubbed in Germany. My acoustic Sesame Street memories are entirely different from someone in the US. For me, it's Krümelmonster. Nothing you wrote in your last two posts rings any bells in me.

In related news, police today found the chocolate-smeared body of a blue furry creature in a garbage dump in Aachen. The deceased was carrying a US passport and seemed to work for an industrial bakery. Police gave multiple scalpel wounds as the cause of death. The investigation is ongoing.

[Enzo]

[full disclosure]Cookie monster is the source of Blue Monster 65's name. There is that part. I was writing in "pig latin." a kids game where you twist the words by moving the first letter to the end and add "ay." Hence Ig-pay Atin-lay. The idea being you could speak that way and someone else wouldn;t be able to understand, except everyone does. SO guard your cookie.[full disclosure/]

Unless you are toying with me, in which case I got to get this hook out of my mouth somehow before he lands me.

[Arneb]

Well, bm65's heritage was obvious. The rest, pig Latin etc - not a clue...

[Enzo]

So pig latin is not universal... who knew.

[Superluminal]

Perhaps Arneb speaks swine Deutsch?

[troubleagain]

I'm gonna toss you one, Enzo:

What's a henway?

[KLA2]

Nooo! You already know! All right ... I ask,

"What's a [strike]Spartacus[/strike] henway"? :wink:

[Blue Monster 65]

Chomp ... chomp ... chomp ... urp! Good cookie ...

Scot

[troubleagain]

Uh-oh. Arneb, you better go check your hiding-place.

[Arneb]

Chomp ... chomp ... chomp ... urp! Good cookie ...

Scot

Well, Mr. ex-bm65, always read up on a thread for longer than the current page...

[Blue Monster 65]

Bad doctor! Bad doctor! No poke with sharp things! Make monster angry! And hungry ....

... hmmm ... mmmmmm ... num num num ... Arneb taste like chicken ...

Scott

[Arneb]

Actually, more like a rabbit :D

OK, if you'll regurgitate my owl (you couldn't bite it apart anyway; ever tried to do that with salt dough? Ha!), I am willing to make peace. Help yourself to some Printen, instead!