Cat and Pig make oatmeal cookies. Digital phone drawing, 4/30/19, -CK

Oatmeal cookies, and raisins day

A 3 ingredient oatmeal cookie recipe of oats, bananas, raisins. I haven't tried their recipe, but if you like banana bread this could work for you. 

https://www.nestandglow.com/healthy-recipes/3-ingredient-raisin-banana-oat-biscuits

This oatmeal cookie thing - I'm wondering if I can do a stovetop version using smashed or cooked cranberries instead of bananas!

Honey or sugar as sweetener and 'glue'.

Sugar needs to be liquified or it won't hold oats together

Several days later - one stovetop cookie! So far it is holding up. I don't dare lift it to see if it's burned. I think it's ok. Mixed the ingredients last night. They were to be for a muesli breakfast with yogurt, but that looked off. Shaped the mixture into a patty and cooked on parchment paper in dry cast iron fry pan on the stovetop. The doily is cut from the spot the cookie baked on. I tasted a wee nibble. Oh look, it's a heart!

Cherry blossoms and trees - student display, adult art class, 4/22/19

Student drawing in sketch book:

Class display of drawings and practices for the cherry blossoms and trees project. Some of the reference pics are stills/frames  from a time lapse video on the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens cherry blossom festival website: https://www.bbg.org/collections/cherrieshttps://www.bbg.org/collections/cherries

My answer to a question asking how we go about doing cherry trees - is there a technique or just freehand?

CK - No set technique! I'm just exploring and experimenting each time. Some concepts I do keep using: Sky shapes first if they show. If they are white, I make them blue. I keep moving from there - green shapes for grass and backgrounds etc. At some point it's the tree trunks and branches. Not too dark. At some point the pink puffs like clouds. Some texture here and there but always to have a flowing or curving feel to them. 

The practice/ warm-up to our lesson, (and the students' display of drawings),  was: 
a) blind contour drawing close ups
b) continuous line drawing of blossom close ups
c) continuous line drawing of a scene
d) quickie color sketch of just those negative and positive shapes

In this case the last exercise ended up as the final drawings. We were really short on time and had to rush. ....Hmmm - a sunset happens fast, as fast as an animal in motion. Too fast to draw in motion. Perhaps one can consider rushed circumstances from that outlook!

April adult drawing programs, 2019

Press Release: 

3/22/19 

Free April Art Workshops for Adults, with Catinka Knoth, at Rockland 

Library, 2019

Rockland - Catinka Knoth will lead a drawing workshop series for 

adults, on creating 'April Art'. Attendees will explore themes such as papercuts to celebrate  fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, Easter themes and cards?

Cherry trees and the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival; spring flowers such as tulips and daffodils; and frogs. Classes meet 11 a.m. Most Mondays, April 1, 

8, 22, & 29, (the Library closes for Patriots Day, 4/15); in the Community Room, Rockland Public 

Library, 80 Union St. Led by Knoth, participants will create their own art. Knoth provides the classes free of charge, with materials supplied. Friends of Rockland Library host the workshops, which are open to the public. FMI Knoth at 593-6085 or Rockland Library at 

594-0310. 

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing and creating the 

April themes. Each week is a different subject. Participants will work 

with pencil, colored pencil, and crayon, and sometimes scissors, with a focus on drawing in color. 

4/01 Papercuts and fairy tales in honor of HC Andersen 

4/08  Easter eggs and cards

4/15 No Class - Library closed for Patriots' Day 

4/22 Cherry trees and the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival  

4/29 Spring Flowers - Tulips, daffodils, Frogs and lilyponds

Knoth paints watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which 

she offers as cards and prints. She also teaches a free weekly 

children's drawing class, at Rockland Public Library, 

sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin. For more information about Knoth's 

work 

visit www.catinkacards.com. 

Attachments: Art/photos by Catinka Knoth

Attachments: Art/photos by Catinka Knoth

 

 
 

Cat and Pig find Easter eggs, digital phone drawings, 4/19/19

Cat and Pig find Bats, Digital phone drawings, 4/17/19

Cat and Pig watch the bats come out. Digital phone drawings, 11/17/19, for National  Bat Appreciation Day.

Happy Batday to some.

Of course we may want some bat jokes to go with that. Hopefully they would not be too bat.

I love the little Maurice Sendak book, The Bat Poet. I''ll find out the author. Sendak illustrated. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat

Cat and Pig enjoy Orchids, Digital phone drawings, 4/16/19,

Cat and Pig enjoy Orchids, Digital phone drawings, 4/16/19, 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchidaceae

Cat and Pig start a spring garden, digital phone drawings, 4/14/19

 Cat and Pig are minding their new Spring Garden. They have crocuses, they have Daffidils, they have  tulips, they have hyacinth, they have lily-of-the-valley. And of course they have dandelions, violets and butter cups! They'll have to get some pansies too, and then some irises.
 And then they can have some lovely bouquets in the house. Sitting in the middle of the of the dining table. Maybe where they have breakfast too. Maybe in the window on the window sill. It will be lovely on those gray days. Or on those days when April showers bring May flowers!

 . And it will be lovely when the sun shines on them. It always is nice to have those piles of color inside the house

Cat and Pig consider Pets and visit the Bookmobile, digital phone drawings, 4/11/19

What books did you get  Pig?
I got  poetry books by Christopher Robin's father, A A Milne: When We Were Very Young, and Now We are Six.
And I got a Winnie the Pooh book!
The Disney kind or the  original version?
The original of course! They are so funny.
And look what else I found! The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter. Also The Tale of Pigling Bland

Did you look for a book of the Three Little Pigs too? No, but maybe there also is The Three Lttle Pigs Two!

Cat and Pig have coffee cake and sew a quilt. , digital phone drawings, 4/7/19

Cat and Pig have coffee cake and sew a quilt. 

What's in the big coffee cake Pig? Oh some cinnamon and pecans and raisins. I am just curious. Lots of sugar I bet, and of course butter. You have to use  eggs and yeast. You could use walnuts instead of pecans. I make it with milk too, and flour.

Let's make our quilt with purple and green and yellow squares and triangles. We have a lot of sewing to do as we are doing it by hand. We're not using a sewing machine. We can  do a lot of talking while we sew. It will make a nice blanket or a bed cover. One will stay nice and warm under it come winter. In the summer it'll be a nice decoration on the sofa. We can make one for each of us. I wonder how long it will take us to make them.

Fairy Tale papercuts - kings and queens, kids drawing class, 4/2/19

Kings and  queens are in a lot of fairytales. Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote many fairytales but the more modern tradition than all the stories that are part of oral storytelling traditions, was is the inspiration for working in the medium of papercutting. He made thousands of papercuts as he spun stories. We're glad he also wrote down his stories. Disney has made many of his stories into movies.
HCAndersen wrote The Snow Queen, (which inspired Frozen), The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling. Also The Emperor's New Clothes, and The Princess and the Pea.

Today we tried to correct my complete miscounting of how many royals we could make in our paperdoll chain. We wound up with four figures. We had to cut one of the half figures on the end and tape it to its matching half on the other end.

A five year old came to class today. I think she made two little books rather than the papercutting. And then we had some fun with my taking exact dictation so she could copy her dictation. She wrote her sentences in different colors. Yellow is not a color  I can easily read. I'm glad she only wrote the last sentence in yellow!

Fairy Tale Papercuts - kings, queens, princesses and princes - paperdoll chains, 4/1/19

Hans Christian Andersen, a master of storytelling and author of fairy tales, also made fantastic papercuts. In honor of his birthday on April 2, (I think), we do this enjoyable project. Easy to get mixed up in doing it, but that is ok because however you do it, you'll have fun doing it.

Here we use a sheet of copy paper folded in half the long way.
Cut this paper in half along that fold.
Place both long pieces together as neatly matched as possible.
Fold them in half, and in half again. (I may or may not show pics for this part later...). For now, think of it as a puzzle to chew on!
Draw a king and a queen, one half body for each, with their midlines along the left and right folds.
Make sure they stay connected across the panel and along the folds. (Holding hands in the middle of the panel).
Now cut them out through the paper thickness. You will be cutting away a lower area of background below the handholding connection. And you will cut away the area around the figures above their handholding connection.
When you open this up you should have x figures on each strip. (Edited re the number of figures...they are less than I'd thought, and I have not figured that out yet!)
I put a set together and made a crown of it for myself. Maybe later I'll take a pic of that to show.
Students made background pieces and attached their figures.
Of course if you want, decorate these paperdoll chains. Endless possibilities here. The cutaway sections also make good shapes for long decorations.