50 Years Ago Today...

[mpizzazz]

First Manned Flight in Space

Last night I attempted to do a technique Keitha saw recently using markers and sprayed water to make a background. My markers are so dry, they are only 15 years old, that I couldn't do it. It turned into scribbling on the damp paper to work out which markers still worked and throwing half of them away. Then I added some scraps of maps, patterned papers and streaks of oil pastel spread with water and left it to dry.
This morning I added stamped lines and circles in black ink then stencil with black paint. Then we watched some of the film First Orbit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... uman-space
When I came back to look at this again, it looked sort of spacy-in a good way. From the transcript of the space flight, I wrote on the lines some of the things that Gagarin said.
I especially like what he said after he landed in a field and scared the farmer and his daughter, "don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1

[ChristyB]

I love the background! It's so cool

[pamcook]

Outstanding!

[Monica]

Wonderful!!!

Monica

[troublesmom]

Great colors!

[clamscrapper]

Awesome!

[azemigh]

Awesome!

[nancine]

wow, that is really cool!

[Paula]

wonderful!!

[djenns]

I think it turned out neat........
Diana

[bethrich]

It does have a hint of space about it!

[Debbie J]

Great job Marianne!! Love it. Those stencils really finished it off!!

[pamcook]

Had you considered adding that quote to it? I just read it again and it made me giggle again. Can you imagine how terrified those poor people were?

[Keitha]

Looks great - I love when failed experiments turn into fabulous art!

[mpizzazz]

Thank you all for the comments.

Pam, I did add the quote. There are several quotes written between the arced lines that I stamped on it. Most are things about how awesome it was seeing the earth from up there. But that last one made me laugh. All the technology to put a man in space and he had to wander around to find a phone to call them.