Simonetta de Vespucci - portrait by Piero do Cosimo, Renaissance portrait..

First painting I ever copied - when I was 8-9 years old. Loved this painting. Can never remember the artist, so I'm posting this now. Hopefully next time I can find it.

This painting was a cover, (I believe) for one of the first Horizon magazines. Our family had a subscription. I think our dad gave me a drawing lesson about it - maybe because I was already trying it. So I know the painting but always have a hard time w the title n artist! ...Dad explained how they shaved their foreheads back then, hence a bigger forehead than normal!

I still want to find that Horizon magazine - maybe it was only an article and I imagine it as the cover?

It is in the

Musée Condé in Chantilly, France. Painted c. 1480-1490

Some Info here:

http://www.dailyartmagazine.com/simonetta-vespucci-top-model-renaissance/

May Themes Art Workshops for Adults at Rockland Public Library, with Catinka Knoth, 2018

Press Release:

4/23/18

May Themes Art Workshops for Adults at Rockland Public Library, with Catinka Knoth, 2018

Rockland - Local artist Catinka Knoth will lead  workshops on creating
art for May themes such as American Wetlands Month and International
Migratory Birds Day, at Rockland Public Library. Classes meet 11 a.m.  Mondays, in the Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Led by Knoth, participants create their own art. Knoth provides the classes free of charge, with materials supplied. Friends of Rockland Library host the workshops. FMI Knoth at 691-5544 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

Each week is a different subject.
5/07    May flowers and baskets

5/14    Frogs, lily ponds, herons, & egrets
5/21   Migratory birds and warblers
5/28   Library closed for Memorial Day

Knoth provides instruction and guidance in drawing and creating the
May themes. Each week class explores a different subject. Participants
work with pencil, colored pencil, crayon, and sometimes with scissors and collage, with a focus on drawing in color.

Knoth paints watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which
she offers as cards and prints. Knoth also 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.

Attachments: art by Catinka Knoth, (photos by Knoth)

Children's Drawing Workshops at Rockland Library with Catinka Knoth, 2018

Press Release: 
4/23/18

"Let's Draw Marvelous May!" - Children's
Drawing Workshops at Rockland Public Library, with Catinka Knoth, 2018

Rockland - Children will draw May flowers and May baskets, Mother's Day cards, marsh life, Memorial Day themes, and migratory birds  at this month's children's drawing classes led by Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library.

Wendy and Keith Wellin sponsor the ongoing free workshops, geared for age 6
and up, (including the young at heart).  Children age 10 and under need adult accompaniment. Knoth expects participants to work independently for the most part. The workshops provide all materials. Classes meet every
Tuesday, 4-5 pm., Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union
St. Friends of Rockland Library host. FMI - Jean Young,
children's librarian, 594-0310.

May is also American Wetlands Month. Children will explore marsh and
wetland habitats by drawing such animals as egrets, frogs, and beavers.
International Migratory Birds Day, another May celebration, gives the opportunity to draw Spring warblers and other migratory birds. Knoth leads
attendees in step-by-step drawing instruction for the day's theme. Class also works with papercutting. She encourages adults to participate and discover that drawing is for everyone.

"Let's Draw Marvelous May!"
5/01 May flowers, May baskets
5/08 Mother's day cards
5/15 Marsh & wetlands life
5/22 Memorial Day
5/29 Migratory birds

Attachments:
Demonstration drawings by Catinka Knoth

....I don't know who they are... A lovely couple and a swan...

I learned recently, (today), that Michelangelo had made a painting of Leda and the Swan. The painting I saw looked to me like a Pontormo or a Bronzino - very Mannerist. I had no idea Michelangelo had done the subject.

...but I had painted this miniature painting using watercolor as if it were egg tempera. It is  quite small - perhaps 6"x7". i did this c. 1974-1976?

Daffodils - structural, schematic, and stylized, adult art class student display, 4/23/18

Spring Peepers & baby animals, kids' drawing class, 4/17/18

Baby animals - bunnies, squirrels, otters, kittens, raccoons, and a fawn somewhere. Thank goodness one of the students knew what an otter looks like and was able to draw up a sample for us!

We did not get to hedgehogs, dragon related animals like salamanders and snakes, or pandas!

See more about peepers here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUXYrUA2pw

And something about otters? ....

Koi kite pics - made in the video demo