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purplecat wrote:Melody wrote:
This wasn’t at Windstone, but I once had a job working at a sand painting factory, and we had some spectacular disasters there. One day a whole shelf collapsed under about seventy finished sand paintings (these were those sand paintings done in glass containers). The shelf also took out all the sand paintings on the shelves under it. Whee! so pretty, piles of colored sand everywhere. What a mess.
What is sand painting? I’ve never heard of it before.. ❓ Sounds neat.
They are items that once were common in tourist gift shops and co-op gift stores. They are clear glass containers filled with layers of colored sand that forms a picture. Usually it is of a landscape with mountains. They are fun to do with kids.
The same theory can be used with colored wax granules. The kids did that at the Sea Witch Festival one year; the vendor used wide mouthed candle holders. They sealed the top layer with a blowtorch, so the patterns wouldn’t shift. I still have them:-)
Anybody else remember the stretched out Coke bottles filled with colored sand you could win on the Boardwalk?
Melody, do you care to explain how they made those scenes with the sand? Or is it a trade secret? I’ve always wondered how they were made.
I imagine they achieve those pretty scenes with careful layering of the different colored sands. You can use a thin stick to poke down along the sides of the jar or bottle to create dips. Where the top layer of sand seeps down into the layers below it. There are probably lots of other techniques though.
I had a sand art kit when I was little. The kit came with lots of different colored sands, and different shaped bottles with corks. It was really fun!
I used to get one every year at the county fair…The bottle had eyes and a beak and a plume of feathers coming out the top. Very cute. I might still have one in storage somewhere…
lamortefille wrote:The same theory can be used with colored wax granules. The kids did that at the Sea Witch Festival one year; the vendor used wide mouthed candle holders. They sealed the top layer with a blowtorch, so the patterns wouldn’t shift. I still have them:-)
Anybody else remember the stretched out Coke bottles filled with colored sand you could win on the Boardwalk?
Melody, do you care to explain how they made those scenes with the sand? Or is it a trade secret? I’ve always wondered how they were made.You put layers of colored sand in a jar, but very carefully, so the new layer doesn’t mess up the underlying layer. We formed mountains by getting the different colored sand to go onto a spoon in rows so that when you let the sand run into the jar off of the tip of the spoon it would form shaded mountains. It was pretty neat. Took some pratice. We used tools to poke down some areas to make crags on the mountain tops, birds or plants.
My brother once had a semi-similar item we found on a vacation to the beach many years back. It was lines of sand of different shades of gray, sandwiched between two panes of glass in a picture frame-type setup. You could flip the frame over and the sand would fall down to create a new landscape each time. It was a pretty amusing little souvenier!
Forever seeking: Blackwatch the raffle Old Warrior, Jennifer Miller's pieces, and GB Baby unis!
Wow, Kyrin, I’m glad nothing worse happened! But still – 1000 lbs. of fish laying around, that can’t be pretty.
Melody wrote:lamortefille wrote:The same theory can be used with colored wax granules. The kids did that at the Sea Witch Festival one year; the vendor used wide mouthed candle holders. They sealed the top layer with a blowtorch, so the patterns wouldn’t shift. I still have them:-)
Anybody else remember the stretched out Coke bottles filled with colored sand you could win on the Boardwalk?
Melody, do you care to explain how they made those scenes with the sand? Or is it a trade secret? I’ve always wondered how they were made.You put layers of colored sand in a jar, but very carefully, so the new layer doesn’t mess up the underlying layer. We formed mountains by getting the different colored sand to go onto a spoon in rows so that when you let the sand run into the jar off of the tip of the spoon it would form shaded mountains. It was pretty neat. Took some pratice. We used tools to poke down some areas to make crags on the mountain tops, birds or plants.
I bet it took practice (and lots of patience)! I could figure out how the mountains and birds were done, but how about a cactus? The whole thing amazes me, really. I would be tempted to shake the whole thing up if I got frustrated. 😆
Zelda, I had one of those, too. Hours of entertainment! 😀 😆
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