Spring Flowers - daffodils and tulips, adult art class display, 4/29/19

We started with several schematic structural versions of daffodils. These are to practice the basic structure and form of the flowers. Then we worked from photo references, (found on the web), as inspiration for the final drawings. Even the simple structural drawings colored in have their own beauty.

Photo courtesy of Deb Collemer:

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!

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

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.