Penguins and winter sports figures, student art display, adult drawing class, 1/29/18

We did exercises of playing with dark shapes colored into imaginary outlines. Circles and teardrops. See if you can see any figures in the groupings. Then make some figures.

Finally, try inventing penguins and maybe work from reference pics.

Pictograms

Fwd: Winter scenes class adult art class student display, 1/22/18

My phone was so out of memory and space that it only gave a black screen and would not let me take a pic. I used a student's device to take the pic.

We did some exercises before the final drawings. A continual line drawing of the scene and a negative shapes outline drawing.

Cat sees crows from the window...

First I see the cat intent on something in the yard. What? Crows and a squirrel, (gone already here), poking around in the thaw. Then a few more crows. Cat crouches. Moments later he whines to go out. Ok. I settle down to my breakfast. A bit later I notice the cat way across the road two yards over and criss-crossing diagonally back towards home. The road has a wet sound. I go down and whistle for him. He comes in from the backyard.

Valentine art, kids' art programs, February 2018

February celebrations art, valentines, Chinese New Year, Presidents' Day, Mardi Gras

A post to collect my images or February's celebrations - some may be doubles. Some can work as coloring pages to download.

I was going nuts trying to find pics for a press release. Perhaps now that I have found some, collecting them together here will help in the future,

Sourdough wholewheat tostini/crostini(?), with grilled sliced hotdog breakfast, 1/25/18

The heel end from this week's bread baking experiment, as breakfast today. ...but why is my phone letting me take a pic - it has run out of memory and I have not been able to free up space? It just has not worked. And, it has interfered with other processes.

I had another bread experiment in the works, a small one. Wanted to take a pic of that in its stage just then. But the phone had turned dead and black. No revival.

Settle down to enjoy breakfast and let the phone throw its blockade fit. Open another device, go online by wifi hotspot, google the two problems.

Learned: 1) how to restart black screened iPhone, (luckily it was not a matter of the worst reason). 2) how to really delete what you thought you had deleted, and thereby free up space/memory in iPhone etc. Good so far. Just no before pics of current bread experiment.

February children's programs 2018

Press Release 

January 24, 2018

"Let's Draw February's Celebrations!" - Children's Drawing Workshops at

Rockland Public Library, 2018

Rockland -  Children will draw images from February's celebrations and

traditions at Rockland Public Library's ongoing drawing workshops led

by artist Catinka Knoth. Participants draw along with Knoth as she

demonstrates how to draw and make motifs for Chinese New Year,Valentine's

Day, President's Day, and Mardi Gras. Each week is a different subject:

2/06    Valentine's Day cards & papercuts

2/13    Mardi Gras

2/20    Presidents Day 

2/27    Chinese New Year Season - Year of the Dog

Sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, the workshops, for age 6 and up,

are free and open to the public, with all materials provided. Knoth

expects participants to be able to work independently for the most

part. Children age 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult.

Ongoing workshops 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.

Young artists will  draw a wide range of motifs. Valentine's Day cards often have motifs such as hearts, birds, cupids, lace, ribbons, and roses.  Mardi Gras motifs include masks, King cakes, doubloons, jazz instruments, jesters, tricorn hats, and beads. In honor of the presidents and Black History Month, students might also explore  classic portraits and scenes. Chinese New Year 2018 is the Year of the Dog. Participants may explore traditional zodiac papercut  designs, Chinese dragons, and Lion Dancers.

Attachments: whiteboard demonstration drawings and art by Catinka Knoth