Nicole Alderman

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Nancy Reading wrote:

Anne Miller wrote:The diapers were two ply and there was no hem because they were sown together.

Hmm, that's a thought. I could double up the fabric on the thinner sheets, sew round the edges and turn inside out. It would also give a range of absorbancies if I did some single and some double thickness.

One worry with doubling the layers, is that the water won't get through it as easily in the washing machine. I found my prefolds (which had more than 2 layers) were more prone to ammonia build up than flat diapers.

Watching the kids experiment with the various media and methods was SO COOL. They all took the art in so many different ways, and everyone really enjoyed it.

I hope you can find a way to bring art to others again, even if it's just a few people for a short time. I love seeing their creativity and watching them learn, and seeing how proud they are of what they've made.

(And, yeah, when things go wrong, they do go wrong in big ways! I try really hard to prevent fights over resources, tears over material not working, utter distress about accidents, etc. But, it still happens! I'm glad I'm not trying to do it in a museum!)

r ranson wrote:

megafauna chicken shielding her human from the rain

My new most favourite sentence ever.

That was my son's art from Monday. At first, I thought the megafauna chicken was eating the human (my son has a propensity to draw chickens who kill those who eat chicken meat), but, no, chicken was shielding human from the rain ♥.

(This was done on the grey construction paper, and since I had it at home, I could throw it in my scanner. I don't have any of the cardboard art from today, since my kids aren't in today's class.)

The ink washed cardboard worked! My camera died, or I would have taken pictures. The kids had an absolute blast (and made an absolute mess!). Some kids just smeared dry pigment the whole times. Some painted pokemon. Others made prehistoric stories like cats battling other cats to protect humans, or a megafauna chicken shielding her human from the rain. Some kids got into grinding everything they could in the mortar and pestle (many kids are now begging their parents for their own mortar and pestles), and other mixed every color they could together. Some experimented with flicking paint from the brushes. It was super cool to see what the kids could do with chalk, soapstone, charcoal, yellow ochre, red ochre, and gum Arabic.

I'm so glad I didn't take the "easy" route of having the kids just draw with pastels on paper. They learned so much through their experimental archeology ♥.

Thank you all for your help!!!

Flora Eerschay wrote:It is because it stretches when water is added, and then shrinks as it dries. You have to leave it stuck to some hard surface until completely dry.

Yeah, the problem is I have one 50 minute class followed by another in the exact same space, with a total of 4 different groups. There's just not room to store all the drying paper :'(

It didn't curl when painting, though. It curled an hour later while drying. Some of the papers crumpled up 45 degrees and looked like blooming flowers, rather than flat paper. I've always kind of wondered what the point of construction paper was, if it had any benefit over cardstock in some uses. Well, this was not one such use. It obviously was not made for getting wet!

Anne Miller wrote:Have you thought about making milk paint?  Maybe the charcoal suggestion could be used with milk paint?

Or do you feel it is not suitable for poster board?

I thought about making milk paint, but don't have any skim milk, and only have a little bit of just-add-water milk paint. Since I'm doing the project with my class at 10:00am tomorrow (which is now almost today), I didn't really have time.

I ended up doing Tereza's suggestion. I had to use a bit more black ink than I was thinking I would, and the grey was still paler than I thought. But, it was quick and easy to apply. I also added in some blue ink, because my black diluted to a more brownish/yellow black, and I wanted a bluer black.

The only issue I had was that the poster board decided that it, too, liked to curl. It didn't curl as much as the construction paper used in class did, but it definitely had a curl. I think the amount of water used in diluting the ink was a bit much. I tried pressing it flat, which flattened it. But, it didn't dry. So the instant I took it out of the press, it curled again. I then sandwiched towels between the poster board, which helped it dry a bit more. But, it still curled.

It was then 10:00pm. And I needed to get the poster board cut for tomorrow's class. So, I cut it up and am now pressing all the pieces under some books with a heater blowing at the stack. I'm going to turn off the heater and lay out the boards to dry in a few minutes and go to bed. Let's hope they're not too curled in the morning, and that they don't curl when the kids make their prehistoric art in 11 hours!

Jay Angler wrote:

John F Dean wrote: It looked like a pretty simple project.

I would point out, that as we get older, crawling into short spaces to chase a sick chicken starts to seem yucky.  Yes, it takes more material, but I'd be inclined to find a way to extend the legs for at least 4 1/2 ft of height for short humans, and more for tall humans or people not good at bending over or if you anticipate needing to enter it daily because your birds decide to lay wherever.

My friend is actually making a mobile duck enclosure with a trampoline right now. What they did was attach the uprights that usually hold the safety netting, and they put the fencing around that, as well. They're going to put netting across the top, too. Her husband welded a gate for the duck yard, too, so they won't have to crouch to enter and exit. It'll be heavier to move than my duck yard, but since their ducks will always be in there (rather than herded in and out every day like mine), it'll make it a lot easier for them to manage--and more fun to hang out with the ducks during the day.

By having the extension above, rather than below, it also makes it easier to glide along the ground. You need the smooth bottom beams for the trampoline to slide on the ground.

Tereza Okava wrote:do you have any black ink for sumi-e or calligraphy?
remembering back to my teaching art in museum days, we used to dilute it *super* diluted in water to make gray washes. if you're using chalky pigments and it's super duper diluted to be light grey, activation may not be such a big problem.

I have Higgens "Waterproof drawing ink." I could maybe water it down. Do you think painting or ragging would be the best way to apply it?

I'm going to assume it'll dilute in water, because I clean my calligraphy pen with water. And, when it was still wet, it could be reactivated with my watercolor paints (found that out the fun way when making the Northern Wei Dynasty scroll painting).