The Circus comes to town, triangle circus figures, adult art class display, 3/25/19

Wonderful figures for the circus theme in adult art class today. Some instructions from me are too much like counting cards. No one has a head for making sense of such instructions. This will always be like that game 'telephone'. "Hunh, what did she say?" Who knows! We just have to hope we come up with penicillin,(well known accidental discovery, right?). But if you try to make an 'accident', is it still an accident?...

First we cut card stock into quarters. We used copy paper folded into quarters as a kind of 'ruler'. We cut the card stock up into postcards of a sort. We drew one triangle figures on each 'postcard'. We decorated/colored the figures. We cut them out. We arranged our figures on a full sheet of copy paper, sticking them down with tape loops. We traced the figures. We re-stuck the figures into another sheet of copy paper. Now we had papers with tracings on them to be colored etc later, and we had our arrangement with the cutouts - which you can see here. A student kindly let me use her camera to take a pic as mine was rebellious saying there was so room for anymore pic taking.

March Medley!" - Children's Drawing Workshops at Rockland Public Library, 2019

Press Release: March programs issue

2/21/2019

"Let's Draw A March Medley!" - Children's Drawing Workshops at Rockland

Public Library, 2019

Rockland - This March, children will draw Mardi Gras, the Iditarod Dog Sled Races,

St. Patrick's Day, , and the circus, at Rockland Public Library's ongoing children's drawing workshops led by Rockland artist Catinka Knoth.

Participants follow along with Knoth as she demonstrates creating a

variety of subjects for March. Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day has it's

shamrocks, St. Patrick, leprechauns, pots of gold, rainbows,  and Celtic

designs. Husky dogs, mushers and dog sled teams,

are motifs from the Iditarod Race in Alaska. The class may also

experiment with papercuts of dog teams. Traditionally March was when 'the circus comes to town', bringing acrobats, animals, clowns, and tents.

Tuesdays; 4-5pm, "Let's Draw a March Medley!", 2019

03/05   Mardi Gras

03/12   St. Patrick's Day

03/19   The Iditarod Races and Sled Dogs (3/2 to c, 9 days / last musher's arrival)

03/26   The Circus - clowns, acrobats & animals 

   

Local patrons, Wendy and Keith Wellin, provide the workshops free and open to the public, with all materials provided. The workshops, for ages 6 and up as well as the young at heart, offer the opportunity to make art together. Children age 10 and under need adult accompaniment. Knoth expects participants to be able to work independently for the most part. Ongoing workshops meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm., Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St., hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. FMI - Jean Young, children's librarian, 594-0310.

Attachments: art and demonstration whiteboard drawings by Catinka Knoth