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CONSTANZ ® SYSTEM OBJECTIVES Facilitate to the blind access through touch to color perception, in order to participate as possible, of the pictorial art and favor integration of meanings offered by the chromatic codes. Since it is a new tool with a huge number of creative possibilities, both for children with sight or without it, the activity may be carried out in a collective manner. FUNDAMENTALS Taking into account that the habitual reading method for the blind is by touch, the CONSTANZ ® SYSTEM proposes the same media to perceive color, what would make easier its learning in parallel to the writing in Braille. Currently there is not any form for birth blind persons to really learn what color means in objects or in ideas, therefore, there is a sensorial knowledge gap that is essential to be filled. The CONSTANZ ® SYSTEM proposes the basic principle to interpret color to be a high relief line. Each of the primary colors, corresponds to a different line form and the secondary colors are the union of these primary lines, what corresponds to the blending. Black is represented by dots and white by circles, form where the solution to tone will start from. It is a very elementary basic structure and only 5 references or codes that for a child would be very easy to understand and learn. With this system blue can be touched, for example, that is to say, the reader itself may verify its presence without any need to be guided by another person. The Contour: the drawing sketch is represented by a continuous line with high relief or a succession of dots also in high relief (black). This tracing is the first step, that defines areas that have to be colored, as normally is done with pencil. This procedure is followed likewise in any color composition; each color is framed in a black line, that is separated and differences best the zones. Light and darkness: Black (darkness) is represented by the dots in high relief. White (light) is represented by small circles in high relief. Primary colors: yellow is represented by straight lines, blue through wavy lines, and red with broken lines, in zig-zag. Lines are always parallel between each other. Secondary colors: Are blends from the primary colors that are accomplished joining parallel liens that represent each color. Green joins straight lines with wavy lines (yellow and blue), orange straight lines with the broken lines (yellow and red), violet, wavy lines with broken lines (red and blue), and brown, straight lines with wavy and broken lines. Tone: To define it, a 0 – 4 scale of circles or dots that define respectively, the amount of white or black present in each color. The shade is represented in a painting as the lines separating gradually ones from others and its code is X. Spots are characterized in the painting for not having its contour delimited by block dots, as normally is done with color zone in our system. Its code is a circle twice as big to the one that corresponds to white, there will be no mistake. For further information, please contact with Constanza Bonilla \n
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