My Turkeys for Thanksgiving 2015. Crayon demo drawings for adult art class, 11/16/15

Maine birds whiteboard demo drawing, 8/11/15

Hawk, loon, Canada goose, chickadee, barred owl, sea shag/cormorant, and puffin.

Turkey calligraphy drawings to color and/or draw - Happy Thanksgiving!

Burnt Island Light and Portland Head Light, Maine, from my ImageKind art page

You can find these prints at my little gallery page on ImageKind.
http://catinkaknoth.imagekind.com

 And, here in my Etsy shop as digital download notecards:

Burnt Island Light, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
https://www.etsy.com/listing/257438687/

Portland Head Light
 https://www.etsy.com/listing/257536606/

Victorian paper scrap turkey, (from Dover Publications)

Our reference for the turkeys we have been drawing. A Victorian paper scrap turkey, (from Dover Publications). I need to make one facing the other way too!

And, you can find it here!
http://catinkacards.tripod.com/pictures/turkeyVScrapL.jpg

Roasted potato and leeks, my stovetop version.

Made this dish last night in my stovetop oven 'invention'. It is almost that tinfoil packet hobo cooking. The food sits in tinfoil and gets a tinfoil cover. (Cut potato in half flat wise and place skin side down.) That whole 'packet' goes inside two tinfoil pie pans, then into the cast iron fry pan, covered also. It cooks on the stovetop, low medium heat. It may well burn. This one did. ... I dribbled olive oil over it all before cooking it. It was probably done before i took it off the heat. ... Slide it into the bowl and put cheddar cheese on the potatoes. Cover it again with as much as you can, even the pot holder, for a little while - just so the cheese will melt. After cooking just now, I took this pic, and wrote these directions. Took a few nibbles of the leeks before i started writing. This has been on my mind all evening and day, since it was so delicious last night. We hope it is just as good tonight. This serves only one. It is a red potato, and one third a hefty leek stalk (lengthwise). I only trimmed off the very ends. When it cooks that crusty it gets either very soft or crumbly crisp and papery - and sweet! Enjoy.

Turkeys for Thanksgiving! The drawings I did while class did theirs.
The basic lesson was all done from one Victorian paper scrap reference image, (which I can't get to upload now).

Draw a turkey using calligraphy strokes, in 3 randomly selected crayons. Next, draw a turkey as a black and white colored in stencil drawing. Then do the same, but use 3 random crayons. Final drawing: Draw the turkey in pink, yellow, or orange strong outlines. Color in so that those strong light lines show. A 'cloissonne' crayon drawing. Perhaps also try a stained glass version! The reference for all of these is a Victorian paper 'scrap' from Dover.

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