TREASURE HUNT IDEAS

 Darkest day of the year (December 21st)

ALLAN CARR'S AGATHA CHRISTIE

Greenway manor National Trust (Dead Man’s Folly - boathouse)
James Pritchard - grandson
Torquay, Torbay (born, bought 1938 her summer home, to her death)
English Riviera
Beach where she swam (ABC murder)
Beacon cove beach, microclimate allowed all year round
Rollerskating on the pier
Horse riding to cockington
Honeymoon hotel
Burgh (BURR) Island Hotel  (And Then There Were None, Evil under the sun)
Palm Court
Art deco
Black Tie
Sea Tractor
Mousetrap 
St. Marten’s theater
Harrowsgate Spa
Mystery

WATERCOLOUR

Paper brought from China by Marco Polo to Amalfi coast

90lb

Soak soft brush first, to prevent pain to get in brush, making it easier to clean later

Keep paper from curling by using four sides with butcher tape

Masking-cut tape, friscate, rubber cement- leaves white

Leave white between colours, or they will blend

PLAN!!!!!

Light to dark colours

Put drop in each cake colour to start

Use cheap brush to mix colour, expensive to paint

Bleeds

Try watercolour pencils

Toothbrush splatter à la Andrew Wyeth

Transfer paper- add in colour after the fact

Frank Hyde

Koy 

Acrylic gel medium, with comb, then silver leaf into dried gel, then topped with acrylic resin, then painted 

ZERO, A GIFT FROM INDIA

Naught (naughty meaning coming from nothing, now wicked)

"The concept of zero as a written digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India." 

"The word zero came into the English language via French zéro from the Italian zero...first known English use of zero was in 1598."

"The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1250), who grew up in North Africa and is credited with introducing the decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum."

0 Wikipedia

Zero Marks the Spot: Stuff the British Stole 

Other gifts from India:

Chess (7th century, Chaturanga)

Buttons (Indus Valley, Kot Diji era, used as ornaments or seals rather than fasteners (circa 2800-2600 BC)

Shampoo (boiling a lychee with dried Indian gooseberry (amla)

Ayurveda (alternative medicine with eight components: general medicine, perinatal care of mother/pediatrics, surgery, upper cavities including eyes and ENT, pacification of possession spirits, toxicology, rejuvenation/anti-aging, aphrodisiacs )

Cashmere (goat hair from Kashmir in NW Indai)

USB (Did you know it stood for Universal Serial Bus?) This is a stretch since Indian born Ajay Bhatt was working for Intel in the US as a computer architect when he did it. We'll call him a "global Indian". I get it. As a Canadian, we do like to keep our global exports near and dear.

SEMAPHORE

 What is a semaphore?

An apparatus for signaling, usually within visual distance, dating back to the signalling systems of the Greeks with fires on fixed towers along the coast that would be lit one at a time in sequence with preset codes. 

Modern examples are flags, lights, traffic lights, railway signals, telegraphs, and morse code.

MOSHE SAFDIE HAIKU

Communal Projects

Modular Exposition

Jewish Prodigy