CKNotes 4

 At this link to my Mardi Gras page from long ago, you will find several coloring pages to print out: http://catinkacards.tripod.com/c...

...Or ducks? This is actually a drawing or tracing from the papercut - laid out on the card stock sheet as a template. After tracing, I co...

Students drew their own templates following along with my demo drawing. They made extra templates to use as a future reference. After cu...

Chinese New Year of the Rat - 2020 We worked from reference pictures of the decorative designs created each year. This year's cele...

Winter barns in snow scenes - adult art class, 1/13/20 We worked from two reference photos. First we did a set of exercises in effort ...

Class worked hard trying to follow my instructions for this yet untested idea. We have done variations on it over the years. The differenc...

Class started by practicing with two colored pencils taped together to create a double line drawing tool. One pencil should be forward of th...

We warmed up with a set of drawing exercises working from reference photos. 1) draw a critter in white by just coloring in the backgroun...

Once you notice that a simple building almost appears as if it is a face,  faces start staring out at you from so many buildings you see. Ha...

Students did some torn paper and negative space exercises before tackling the reference model. This is a little painting I did years ago...

We started exercises with drawing the image in continuous line. Keep your drawing tool in constant contact with the paper. Backtrack if y...

We started with a series of exercises: Draw clumps of stalks of lupine in a variety of scribbles or textures. Each clump sh...

The first exercise was to practice a row of the black mask, eye and beak facing to the right across the page. The next row was to face to ...

We started with several schematic structural versions of daffodils. These are to practice the basic structure and form of the flowers. Th...

Press Release:   3/22/19  Free April Art Workshops for Adults, with Catinka Knoth, at Rockland  Library, 2019 Rockland - Cat...

Template drawing: Swan papercut pattern for kissing swans Valentine card F = the fold. I did not leave enough room...

We started right in on the project without exercises. We used references of New Year Pig images and art. Some of the references are paperc...

We started with black and white abstraction practices. Cut a sheet of paper into quarters. Color one of these quarters black, (crayon). Cu...

We did practices for using lines just to imagine and develop the feel of the physical spherical form rather than just trying to make it ...

I had a rough idea in my head of how we could make houses of paper to decorate. The plan was to demonstrate the instructions without wor...