"April Awakenings" Children's Drawing Classes with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Library, 2017

Press Release

"Let's Draw April Awakenings!" - Children's Drawing Classes at Rockland
Library, 2017

Rockland -  Children will draw in celebration of Spring this April at
Rockland Public Library. Participants draw along with artist Catinka
Knoth as she demonstrates. Subjects may include fairy tale papercuts in
honor of Hans Christian Andersen's birthday; Easter eggs and cards;
koi kites and cherry trees for the Japanese Spring Festival ; baby
animals such as bunnies, puppies, kittens, lambs, and colts; spring
peepers,  birds' nests and fledglings, and spring flowers such as
crocuses, daffodils, and tulips.

"Let's Draw April Awakenings!"

4/04 Papercuts fairy tales
4/11 Easter eggs bunnies and cards
4/18 Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, koi kites
4/25 Spring peepers, flowers, baby animals


The ongoing workshops, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, for age 6
and up, (including the young at heart), are free and open to the
public. Library policy requests that children age 10 and under  have an
adult accompany them. Knoth expects participants to be able to work
independently for the most part.  Classes provide all materials and
meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm., Community Room, Rockland Public Library,
80 Union St., hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. FMI - Jean Young,
children's librarian, 594-0310.

Attachments: Demonstration art and photos by Catinka Knoth

Here is a video of a  livestream on papercutting a people paperchain:

The circus comes to town - triangle acrobats & clown paper puppets, adult and kids drawing classes, 3/27-28/17

Cut card stock into four quarter sheet approximate postcards. Invent figures composed entirely of triangles. Figures should reach several edges of the cards, (ie keep your figures large if possible). Decorate these figures as clowns or however you like. Cut them out. Arrange them on a new sheet as you like. Trace around the figures in this arrangement. Use that tracing as a new picture to color as you wish. Attach paper sticks to the back of your puppets and have some fun with them.

Adult class we slapped together a circus backdrop and perched the puppets on top. We could just as easily have danced them in front of the backdrop. Depends where you put the sticks.

Kids class we have less time, so the puppets parade on the wall.

Have fun!

 

Happy Spring! Paper flowers blooming in a paper box

Spring daffodils crayon drawing and paper sculpture experiments, 3/20-21/17

Crayon drawing in yellow outlines and coloring.
Paper flowers - I think little paper cups from circles cut into simple spiral with slits cut along inside edge to bend up. Close with dab of glue stick. Make a collar/saucer of petals. Glue cup into the saucer. Make a small slit in the center. Make a stiff paper folded stick. Roll up one end a bit. Thread the stick through the flower's center. The little rolled up part will keep the stem from going right out again.

And these are structural/schematic versions of daffodils to practice feeling the forms, to warm up, to create drawings from your imagination.

Spring, daffodils, schematic construction style, and stick puppet boxes. Adults and kids' art classes, 3/20 -21/17

Adult class did several 'construction' style exercises to get a feel for the cup and saucer aspect of daffodils. We drew final drawings in similar style using yellow for the lines instead of black before coloring in.

Kids' class, in honor of World Puppetry Day: we drew daffodils onto circles we had made by cutting down paper into small squares. We threaded the daffodil heads onto folded paper sticks. We had already made little origami paper diorama stages/containers and set in colored backdrops of sky and grass. The daffodil stick puppets we poked through the ground area side of the box.

 

Whuoo, whuoo, whuuoo,....where? Sunday, day before Spring's arrival, 3/19/17 c. 6:30p.m.

Was I hearing an owl whooting in the distance? I look out the window to see where it might be. There just below me in the shingling over the downstairs window was something with its beak in the cracks between shingles. A small mourning dove. Oohh, i grab a camera. As soon as the dove realizes i am there it pulls its head up. I get my shot, and it takes off with that typical whirring sound they make upon take-off.

Bucking goatco coloring page after Alfred Mainzer