August adult art classes with Catinka Knoth, Rockland Library, 2016

Press Release:

Knoth Offers Free "Maine Lighthouses and Boats" Adult Art Workshop 

Series in August  at Rockland Library, 2016

Rockland - Catinka Knoth will teach drawing  Midcoast Maine lighthouse 

and boat scenes, most Mondays in August  at 11 am. in the Community Room, 

Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St.  Led by Knoth, participants make 

their own lighthouse and boat drawings  using colored pencils and 

crayons. Each week is a different scene:

8/01        Marshall Point Light

8/08        Rockland Breakwater

8/15        Sailboats by Rockland Breakwater

8/22        Lobsterboat heads home by Marshall Pt.

8/27        No class

Knoth offers the  workshops  free of charge with materials supplied. 

The workshops are hosted by Friends of Rockland Library and open to the 

general public. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

Participants will learn in the first session how to make a drawing of 

Marshall Point Light. Knoth will show how to depict  the white forms of 

the  tower, the pylons, and the walkway, by making the "negative" 

shapes of the deep blue sea that shows behind these objects.  The dark 

turret and cap of the building will appear with the use of minimal 

strokes. Broad swaths of crayon marks and accent strokes will suggest 

the rocky shoreline. The dark green of Hupper's Island in the 

background provides further negative shapes to  define  the walkway. 

This is a subject that needs no preliminary drawing. 

Knoth paints watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which 

she offers as cards and prints. She teaches a free weekly children's 

drawing class, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, at Rockland Public 

Library. For more information about Knoth's work visit 

www.catinkacards.com.

Photos of Watercolors by Catinka Knoth

Catinka Knoth

241 Broadway, Apt. B

Rockland, Maine 04841

207-596-0069, 207-691-5544

Website:

http://www.catinkacards.com

Blogs:

http://cknotes4.blogspot.com/

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

Poppies in coastal Maine landscape scene, reference photo

Here is my instamatic photo of the poppies in a coastal Maine landscape scene, taken so long ago on North Haven. I had done a little on the spot watercolor but found my coloring just too dead. Later when the trip photos came back, I had another go of the scene. You can see that on my FineArtAmerica page. Every year we have this as a class subject. ... Search for Childe Hassam's poppy paintings in watercolor and pastel, on the island Appledore, over 100 years ago. Would love to see other poppy coastal Maine scene photos. I have seen no other real ones, but then I have not been to many places.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-poppies-coastal-maine-island-june-garden-north-haven-catinka-knoth.html

Poppies in the coastal Maine landscape scene - student art display, and demonstration drawings, adult art class 7/18/16

Exercises: varieties of mosaic type arrangements.
Art from a long ago reference photo of mine taken with Instamatic camera.
A quickie continuous line drawing from the reference photo. Color the drawing as you like using the exercises as much as possible.
Pre-class notes for lesson plan.

Lobster sculpture, Rockland Library, Talbot House - Maine town landmarks demo drawings as coloring pages

Lobster sculpture, Rockland Library, Talbot House - Maine town landmarks demo drawings as coloring pages. Converted demo drawing photos into high contrast coloring pages to print out. Here they are as ping files I think. When I can I will turn into pdf files. First try at an online image converter site. Apparently one is t buy some software if one wants the bigger options. Could find no prices though. Confusing site, but if I can get my drawings converted to the way I need them... Called something like pattern resizer. One can make plastic stencils from one's photos and drawings - but I 'm not clear on the use of those or what the final product of that is. The site did not give any example. It enlarges images to large gridded pages. I think Kodak printer software used to do a similar thing. Also my old HP printer - well it printed to very large sizes in standard paper sheet panels. Miss the old hardware and software...

 

A Maine town - Rockland landmarks. Lobster sculpture, Talbot House, the library. Student art, and demo drawings, children and adults, kids' drawing class, 7/12/16

Talbot house would have been easier if we had found Hopper's painting to follow. We drew from me drawing upside down from my photo, a very different perspective.

Lupine coastal scenes inventions, student drawings, adult art class, 7/11/16

We started with a series of exercises whose purpose kept people guessing. It was a step by step unwitting, and perhaps unwilling, creation of a landscape. We had drawn lupine and evergreen textures on several strips of paper in varying sizes and scales. We cut or tore these shapes into landscape bands - like foreground, middle ground, far ground. We colored a background paper as sky and water. The lupine and tree strips we glued on their ends like stage flats onto the background. Fold these outward and the background inward for a little landscape card! You can see some examples along the bottom row. These were not the original plan. I thought we would do them flat, but the foldout idea came to mind just in time. Then we drew our scenes in larger format. No cutting, pasting, and folding!

Favorite Maine cats and dogs, student art by children and adults, kids' drawing class, 7/5/16

We were going to draw cat and dog characters from some Maine books and illustrators.
Togus the Cat, The Cat of Strawberry Hill, Nellie the lighthouse dog... One student remembered there was a story about a dog at the Owls Head Lighthouse. That book is Lighthouse Dog to the Rescue. There is also The Cat at Night, by Dahlov Ipcar. We ended up trying our hand at very basic cats. There is a drawing here of a menagerie of stick figure animals - like pictograms.