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

 

 
 

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.