Woodland animals and turkeys, student drawings, adult art class, 11/18/19

We warmed up with a set of drawing exercises working from reference photos.
1) draw a critter in white by just coloring in the background.
2) draw a blind contour drawing of a critter - keep your eye on the reference image, tool on the paper, and don't look at the paper. Go slowly and quietly. It is not supposed to look like anything!
3) draw a continuous line of the reference image, keep tool on the drawing
4) draw the forms of a reference image. Egg shapes? But imagine their 3D form how it takes up space.
Turkey - half a sheet drawing script like scribbling. Each line should be connected script forms repeating a mark like a letter. Hmm - would this work as the actual letters of the name?
The other half of the page is to translate the elements of a turkey image into the scribbles of script/calligraphy.

Ice cream, food booths, rides, petting zoos, carousels - some of the many rides and activities to explore in a visit to the country fair. In this case - drawing on paper.

The drawings could lay out accordion book or banner style, and, they can form into a compact rectangular wall hanging. 

Download my coloring pages from my CKNotes of August kids’ coloring pages w several country fair scenes from 2014 I think:

http://catinkacards.tripod.com/cknotes/index.blog?start=1408922242&topic_id=1101716

Papier mâché after a fashion critter

A critter made of something like papier mache but not quite. Its just scrunched, well wetted, ,soaked, and formed/modeled newspaper. It dried a few days. The head/neck is not well attached but stays in there because the body dried up around it. I had to keep the whole creature on its side to dry, with the head resting a bit higher. There is no glue in this! It is an experiment. I love it though.

So this was prompted by thoughts from the other day:



...It just came to me why I have not been doing Paper Mache in so long. I need a big paint bucket. There is a way to make great pulp without precutting or tearing the paper. Just put whole sheets into a bucket of hot water and swish it around. Its been a while so I dont remember whether i soaked first or not. I think if you swish around while water is hot it falls apart faster. May have to change it a few times. I dont remember that either. (this is all my own discovery and Ive never seen it mentioned anywhere...) And then you pull the mess out and model a bit with it. Maybe strain too. but you can even get away without glue. Problem is the bucket is only good for this purpose from then on because all that printing ink gums up on the bucket. I think it comes out like the egg carton material. It is more like making paper. I had kids making good size easter eggs one year. Needs a good drying place because of its thickness. Now I must get myself a bucket!

Cat & Pig on Groundhog Day, digital phone drawings, 2/2/19

Nice video of a backyard family of woodchucks. Narrated by the owner of the yard. It explains some things about woodchucks. I never knew they were so cute.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6nEuI86uWs

And,  Cat and Pig on Groundhog Day,   digital phone drawings, 2/2/19

"Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes!" January Children's Drawing Workshops with Catinka Knoth, at Rockland Public Library, 2019

"Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes!" January Children's Drawing Workshops with Catinka Knoth, at Rockland Public Library, 2019

Press Release:

Rockland -  Children will draw winter animals and scenes this January, 

at Rockland Public Library's ongoing drawing workshops led by artist 

Catinka Knoth. Participants draw and create along with Knoth as she demonstrates how to convey a variety of subjects. Winter subjects may include arctic animals such as snowflakes, polar bears, snowy owls, hares, and foxes; houses in a snowy landscape, and winter sports. Each week is a different focus.

Tuesdays  4-5 p.m.  "Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes!"

1/01      No class - library closed for New Year

1/08       Polar Bears

1/15       Penguins

1/22       Winter Themes, Scenes, and Sports

1/29       Arctic Animals

Wendy and Keith Wellin sponsor the workshops, which are free and open to the public, with all materials provided, and geared for age 6 and up, Knoth expects participants to be able to work independently for the most part. Library policy is that children age 10 and under  be accompanied by an adult. Classes meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm, in the 

Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. The Friends of 

Rockland Library host.  FMI - Jean Young, children's librarian, 594-0310.

Attachments - Demonstration art and whiteboard drawings  by Catinka Knoth

Porcupine drawings, 11/17/18, black crayon coloring page, and digital 'touch' phone drawing

Porcupines have up to 30,000 quills - who counted? They don't 'shoot' their quills. A family is called a 'prickle'. Babies are 'porcupettes'. Good info on the San Diego Zoo site: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/porcupine