Owl n Cat n Bat, step-by-step drawing 10/24/17

This started as a video recording, but my 4 month old phone is already out of storage space. (At least I assume that is why the video stopped recording and refused further efforts. It let me take pics tho! ) And after all that hype by Apple about using iCloud for extra storage - it turns out that no, you can't really use it. It will just keep resynching to yr phone. It simply is not an archive system. It is useless. I will have a lot of uploading to my Google drive to catch up. You really need to watch out for the lingo these companies bandy about....

Art for November adult art program - chipmunk & patchwork squares patterns

November adult art programs with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Library, 2017.

Press Release

October 24, 2017

Woodland Animals and November Themes Adult Art Workshop Series with
Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library, 2017

Rockland - Catinka Knoth will teach drawing woodland animals and themes
of November, with a focus on drawing in color, 11 a.m. Mondays, in the Community Room, Rockland Public Library,
80 Union St. Knoth leads participants in working with colored pencils
and crayons to create their own colored drawings of woodland animals and
November themes. Students will use a variety of exercises and methods to
help develop new ways of seeing, observing, and designing. Knoth
provides the classes free of charge and open to the general public, with
materials supplied; Friends of Rockland Library host. FMI Knoth at
691-5544,or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

Knoth will give instruction and guidance in drawing November's themes.
Each week is a different subject, as follows:
11/06      Deer
11/13      Woodland animals
11/20      Wild turkeys & pheasants
11/27      Native American motifs

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 at Rockland Public Library, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin.
For more information about Knoth's work visit www.catinkacards.com.

attachments - art  by Catinka Knoth and students.

November programs children's drawing classes with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Library, 2017

Press Release - Themes for November Children's Drawing Classes at Rockland Library, 2017

Rockland -  "Let's Draw in Celebration of Native American Heritage

Month, Thanksgiving, and the Coming of Winter!" is the November program

for the ongoing free drawing classes led by Catinka Knoth at Rockland

Public Library. Children will explore such motifs as woodland animals; Thanksgiving;

Native American designs, lodging, hunting, and game; and foods and

family gatherings.  Knoth leads children age 6 and up in these "follow

along" sessions every Tuesday, 4-5 pm, in the library's Community Room,

80 Union Street. Children 10 and under should be accompanied by an

adult. Knoth expects participants to be able to work independently and

encourages adults to join in the drawing fun.  Local patrons Wendy and

Keith Wellin sponsor the program, which is free with all materials

supplied, and hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. Contact Jean

Young, children's librarian, at 594-0310 for more information.

Each week is a different subject:

11/07    Let's Draw Deer!

11/14     Let's Draw Woodland Critters - Bears, raccoons, foxes, chipmunks, squirrels, and mice ! 

11/21    Let's Draw Turkeys, a Pilgrim Feast, and a Cornucopia for

Thanksgiving!

11/28    Let's Draw Native American Designs and Motifs!

    

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Fall autumn scenes, exercises, adult art class display, 10/23/17

We started with some exercises turning a circle into a sphere in the simplest manner possible. If you can draw a line that feels as if it's encircling a sphere, that line gives you an idea for how to add shadowing. That shadowing is only there to give form, to insinuate form.

We also did an exercise of using negative spaces to create the tree trunks of birch trees. If you color in the background, adding texture to it, then you can add those little dark details of birchbark to the trunks. Keep the marks light or they will sit too far forward of the trunks - everything has to be in relationship to each other.

English muffin, flatbread, no knead sourdough flatbread, stovetop frypan oven

I made two of these. This one cooked after I had eaten the previous one. These are experiments. A while back I saw a video, I don't know how I found it, of someone making no-knead bread - it was sourdough bread. I don't think I wrote anything down. But I got enough out of it that I wanted to try something like this. I wasn't ready to fire up the big oven yet. So I've been wondering if I could possibly make this on the stovetop for just a small serving. When I went back to find the recipe I had first seen, there was a subscription wall. So I had to find a different sourdough recipe. I found Mark Finley I think it was, his video. So I got wondering if I could try this on a small scale - oh I forgot – I had already started my dough and it had been sitting out all afternoon, and I had just put it in the fridge to sit overnight. But this guy Finley, said the dough should stay at room temperature - I think that's what he said. So I hauled mine out of the fridge... One of the things about making no-knead bread with a good crust is that it needs to be baked at very high temperature for a while. And that is not going to be able to be done on the stovetop. The other thing with no-knead and sourdough is that you use very little yeast to begin with - the yeast grows as it rises over a long period of time. My little bread experiment here is again made without a real recipe. I used eight heaping teaspoons, (cutlery teaspoons), of all purpose white flour. A pinch of salt, a bigger pinch of sugar, and a pinch of dry active yeast. These dry ingredients get mixed together in just a little bowl /container, or whatever. In a separate cup I put some almost boiling water. Then, teaspoon-by-teaspoon, I add it a little at a time to the dry. Stir a little and keep adding. In this case I used 18 ,(cutlery) teaspoons of hot water, hoping that the water would not be too hot just by having gone through that action. I know the feel of when there's enough water in. And you can't mix it completely - you just have to mix it through very quickly and then go for more water. If you go to thoroughly it's too hard to add more if it needs more. So by feel I knew I had done adding water. Then I covered the whole thing with the tinfoil tent and let it sit. I peeked occasionally to see what was going on. I'm not sure if I was allowed to or not. I gave it a few stirs every once in a while. This morning I cut the batter/dough in half. Since I did not have bran flakes or cornmeal, I used oatmeal. I sprinkle the oatmeal flakes onto a piece of tinfoil. Scoop this 1/2 of batter onto the tinfoil with the oatmeal. Flatten it out a little bit. Set this into an aluminum pie plate, cover it with an aluminum pie plate. Set this contraption inside the cast-iron frying pan, which has been pre-heating on the stove top, cover the whole thing with the pan cover and let it cook, or shall we say bake. This will not brown in these baking conditions. With the first muffin though I turned it over halfway through, so the peak of that one actually did brown. But the next incarnation of batter did not brown at all. I didn't turn it over I just let it 'bake' as it was. I think I sliced in half with a long serrated knife shortly after I took it off the heat. I took photos of it the way it looked when it came out. The way it looked once sliced, and the final picture, with cheddar cheese on top. I like the inside texture - it's got air holes - yay! It just lacks a good crust. Well actually it has the crust, but it's not a brown crust. And it's a thinnish bread - it's about a half an inch thick.

Veggies?! We love tomatoes! Repost/ hope both pics post this time

Catinkarts etsy shop Testing Etsy mini with twelve listings. Click the 'Catinkarts' for my shop. Etsy leads to their home page.