Monday, August 15, 2016

Day 28/180: Contraption Parts, Mono Screenprinting, Better Living Through Chemistry, and Boaty McBoatface

Saturday began with a trip to Microcenter to pick up parts for a contraption.  The contraption with sense light in Jane's room at 9:00.  If the lamp is on, it will remind her to turn it off, and sing her a lullaby.  Ben and Jane are going to build it together.

Parts

We picked up the parts on the way to Second State Press for their Second Sunday family printmaking.  This week was mono-screenprinting structures.

The instructor explaining and demonstrating the technique.  Pre-prepared screens + watercolor crayons and pencils + ink = mono screenprinting

First, drawing on the screen with watercolor pencil

Then, coloring with watercolor crayon

Inking

Inking a little more

Ta da!

Adding more details after it dries


Killing some time

Olden days ice cream transport

Chemical Heritage Foundation museum - colors and dyes

TV commericals from the 1950s and 1960s - Better living through chemistry.  So many amazing new products, in so many amazing new colors, all from petroleum byproducts!  Yay!

Interactive periodic table - Hydrogen is flammable!

Atoms are like fairies

Chemist Jane

It may be unstable

Grand staircase

Grand air conditioning

Supper on a ship

Giant connect four

Good bye ship.  Note, the ship wasn't really Boaty McBoatface, but it was named Moshulu by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, before it became a restaurant.

On the way to screenprinting, Jane read six comic books, two of which were non-fiction history, so we also had to stop at a used bookstore to get her three new chapter books, which she started reading on the way home.

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