Walk around the block on a grey day, Friday 1/15/16

My mission on this walk was to make 10 observations and note them at home. I needed to make a smaller goal than yesterday, or the whole thing would become too big a deal for now, especially with the discomfort of a cold and grey day. At least the air was still  today. Again, I cannot get the weather page to load the earlier temp charts...

But, I ended up taking some pics anyway and picking up a few natural items that caught my eye. The photos will probably show as most recent being first. The notes, the sketch, the objects photo, my 'encounters', and finally the view next door before stepping off my porch. That was just for a time record!

 

 

A walk around the block - find 5 objects and more,

Walk around the block, mission Thursday 1/14/16 c. 2:36 pm - 3:00 pm
Bright and cold. Temp ? - computer connection not updating temp histories

Collect a     rock,
                 twig
                 leaf
                 seed pod or berry
                 man made object

Note        5 sounds
               5 --- seen, remembered

Take a pic on the walk

Make a sketch on the walk

Take a pic of the objects

Make a sketch of the objects

Note weather, and time

Specifics noted in the photos of sketchbook pages.

Penguins, and winter sports figures, student drawings, adult and kids' art classes, Jan. 2016

Penguins, and winter sports figures, student drawings, adult and kids' art classes, Jan. 2016

Adult class exercises:
Color in, using  black crayon, arrangements of circle and teardrop/leaf shapes into 4 boxes on your sheet. (Color as you go rather than coloring into an outline.)

Can you see any figures in these arrangements?
Now try a set with winter sports figures in mind. At least one of these should have two figures in it.

Draw 2 large boxes on sheet #3 - (draw these with sheet held vertically so that each is a landscape format.)

Color in arrangements of black teardrop like shapes - abstractions or reminiscent of penguins. (Color as you go rather than coloring into an outline.)

Final drawing - work from a reference photo of penguins, as you wish. But hopefully you will apply some of the exercises!

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Kids' class experiments

Cut a sheet in quarters
Color one quarter completely in black crayon.
Cut out a circle, an egg shape, some teardrop/leaf shapes.
Arrange these on a blank quarter sheet to look somewhat like a penguin. Tip in place, (glue in strategic spots rather than gluing completely down). We use glue sticks.
Now that you know this is to be penguins, color up another quarter sheet and cut out another set of black shapes. This time also cut an egg shape out of the large black egg shape to be the white belly.

Arrange and tip in on remaining white quarter sheet.

Make these two panels as one folder by binding together on the back, using some scraps of your black paper and dabs of glue - like hinges.

If you somehow wound up with a vertical panel and a horizontal panel, make up another panel in one or the other format. Hinge together the two that are the same format.

Final drawing - draw a penguin scene as you wish.

The kids' class did this without ever seeing either a penguin reference photo or example. I demonstrated for them very roughly what we were to do. The work was all an experiment.

 

 

 

Evergreens in snow - papercuts and art, students, adult art class, 1/4/16, Polar bears - kids' class 1/5/16

 

Evergreens in snow - papercuts and art, students, adult art class, 1/4/16

We each colored up a sheet of card stock in varieties of blues and purples. Class was to go wild in how they did it. Some may have guessed how this would be used, if they had seen the image illustrating the press release for the class. But they did not know for sure.

Next - cut copy paper in half the short way. Fold each piece in half the long way.
    do a simple paper cut working out from the fold, of a simple spiky evergreen tree.
    do another tree with rounded branches
    do an optional third tree, (we did them from quarter sheets i think), of the simplest triangle n trunk tree.

After the above practices, make a freeform papercut, in one continuous line, of a single tree within a frame, horizontal format. You should end up with two pieces of paper - a positive and a negative. Take the positive white tree with white border piece and 'tip', (paste in a few strategic points), onto the background piece that you colored earlier.

Make another background sheet. Arrange the individual tree papercuts and tip in.

Wonderful!

We had a very young visitor to class. You may find some of that art in the display too! And we had the rogue papercut snowflake by another as well here!

And:

Polar Bears - students, kids & adults, children's drawing class, 1/5/16

We did a follow along drawing from my demo on the whiteboard. After that, though you don't see them here, we did papercuts of individual polar bears. First cuts students go to draw then cut out. Next papercut they were to cut freehand. The third, after having tried the drawing with scissors, could be drawn and then cut out.

Then we made quickie origami boxes to carry the paper cuts home in. But they were to be shadow boxes as well. Most students had a 4th quarter of paper left. They were to draw a quickie background to lay into the bottom of their boxes. I wish we'd had time to take pics of these boxes.

 

 

Fwd/ January Children's art workshops with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Library, 2016

Press Release - January programs issues

12/16/15

"Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes!" January Children's Drawing 

Workshops at Rockland Public Library, 2016

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 along with Knoth as she demonstrates 

how to draw a variety of subjects. Winter subjects may include arctic 

animals such as polar bears, penguins, 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!"

1/05        Polar Bears

1/12        Penguins

1/19        Arctic Animals

1/26        Winter Scenes and Sports

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 whiteboard drawings  by Catinka Knoth

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Catinka Knoth

241 Broadway, Apt. B

Rockland, Maine 04841

207-596-0069, 207-691-5544

Website:

http://www.catinkacards.com

Blog:

http://catinkacards.com/cknotes

Prints at Fine Art America

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/catinka-knoth.html

Facebook Artist Fan Page 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catinka-Knoth/76702205114

Youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/catinkarts

'Catinka's expenses fund' campaign at GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/t66efvcc

Winter Scenes January Adult Art Workshops with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Library, 2016

 

Press Release

For:        January programs issues

Winter Scenes January Adult Art Workshops with Catinka Knoth at Rockland 

Library, 2016

 

Rockland - Catinka Knoth  will lead an art workshop series for adults, 

on creating scenes such as evergreen trees in snow, lacy snow covered 

branches,  buildings in a snowy landscape, winter animals, and winter 

sports. Each week will be a different subject. Classes meet 11 a.m.  

Mondays, January 4, 11, and 25, at the Community Room, Rockland Public 

Library, 80 Union St.  (The library is closed January 18th, for  Martin 

Luther King Day.) Led by Knoth, participants will  create their own 

winter art. Each week is a different subject. 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 

596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

 

1/04    Evergreens in snow

1/11    Penguins & winter sports figures

1/18    No class - Library closed for Martin Luther King Day

1/25    Winter scenes

 

 

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing and creating 

winter scenes of January.  Participants will work with pencil, colored 

pencil,  crayon, and sometimes papercutting, with a focus on drawing in 

color.

 

Knoth creates watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which 

she offers as cards and prints. She 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, watercolor and papercut, by Catinka Knoth

 

 

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Catinka Knoth

241 Broadway, Apt. B

Rockland, Maine 04841

207-596-0069, 207-691-5544

 

Website:

http://www.catinkacards.com

 

Blog:

http://catinkacards.com/cknotes

 

Prints at Fine Art America

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/catinka-knoth.html

 

Facebook Artist Fan Page 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catinka-Knoth/76702205114

 

Youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/catinkarts

 

'Catinka's expenses fund' campaign at GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/t66efvcc

 

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