User talk:Graxe

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[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Oil Pastels

Thanks for noticing and saying thanks. It's a pretty good article btw Guinnog 22:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] translation

Hi, as requested, i tried to translate a part of it. Here is the first part, so i can't loose it.

After the end of the First World War the Japanese educationreformer Kanae Jamamoto argued for a less restraining Japanese educational system, that was in his opinion far too much fixed on the uncritical absorbing by the student of the subject matter, especially through imitaion. He expressed his views in his book Theory of selfexpression whitch claimed for the Dzjijoe-ga-method, learning without a teacher. The teachers Rinzo Satake and Sjoekoe Sasaki (brother in law of Rinzo) read the book and became fanatic supporters of the new doctrine. They proposed to Jamamoto to replace the lots of hours that Japanese children had to spend on imitating ideograms with indian ink partially by free draw-hours with an as much as possible non-watery medium. The use of pastel chalk was considered, but rejected because it wouldn't adhere to the quite slippery paper that was used for the writinglessons, and the schools had no money for two types of paper. They decided that they had to develop a new form of the already known pastel chalk, whitch was in a inferior variant made in Japan. In 1921 the first tests were taken with succes, and the two men set up the Sakura Cray-pas Company for the mass production of the new drawmaterial. The young company directed itself immediately to the export, to get a start-up grant from the ministry of economical affairs; the ministry of education looked at the modernists in the conservative Japanese education with suspicion. Therefor Satake founded a free privateschool for children with rich parents. That was the reason that letting your children draw with colour became a symbol for a prosporous and liberal way of life. However, soon became clear that drawing with pure crayola was not suitable; It was not usefull for the attaching of two layers, and the merging of colours was very hard. Therefor was decided to add oil to the product. The first oil pastels were produced from 1924 out of a merge of paraffine, stearine acid and coconut oil. The simple compilation, still without stabilisator, had as disadvantage that the sticks began to melt when it was warm, and became rock hard when it froze. Untill 1927 they produced seperate summer- and wintersticks, with an optimal mixture for the high (with less oil) and low temperatures. The product became an enormous succes, and was imitated by lots of companies in as well Asia as in the USA and Europe. Sakura is however still an important consortium. Every year are, as estimates by the company Prang, about five billion under about fifty different trade-marks. Sakura let immediately produce paintings with the new medium to let the use of it find it's way in. Already in the 1930's the new material was used by avant-garde artists, (...)

If you like, you could take out errors etc, or not. :) The rest will come some other time, i hope tomorrow or next weekend. effeietsanders 23:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Graxe! I'll be glad to be of assistance. The easiest way is for me to directly insert the relevant information into the article. See if you like it — if not: throw it out again! Should any questions remain, don't hesitate to ask. Of course, I can't guarantee any coherent answers ;o). It's good to know people share an interest in such a gorgeous medium!
Greetings, --MWAK 10:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)