Cat and Pig want Chocolate Soufflé, phone drawings, 2/28/20. - CK

Cat and Pig like chocolate soufflé, ‘touch’ drawing, 2/28/20. ❤️ - CK

Cat and Pig make chocolate soufflé, ‘sig’ drawing, 2/28/20. - CK 

Mardi Gras masks, adult art class, 2/24/20

At this link to my Mardi Gras page from long ago, you will find several coloring pages to print out:

http://catinkacards.tripod.com/coloring_pages/mardi_gras.html

Lesson description and student examples of previous works here:

https://cknotes4.blogspot.com/2017/03/mardi-gras-masks-kids-and-adult-drawing.html?m=0

Masks from 2/24/20

Photo courtesy of Chris Sady

Valentine’s Day swans papercut and drawing, 2/10/20

...Or ducks? This is actually a drawing or tracing from the papercut - laid out on the card stock sheet as a template. After tracing, I colored with our standard set of 24 crayons, of which I probably only used 6(?) colors!

Flower bouquet invention, iPad with ipencil drawing, 2/10/20

Imaginary flowers nosegay, (botanically incorrect), iPad with ipencil drawing, 2/10/20
These tools are handy and so called quick. Not better tho. Easy to make something quick and send out in a moment.
But we are all crazy if we really believe this pace of complication, chaos, and steps of process is sustainable... we'll find out I guess. Let us hope for the best, or simply believe that 'magic' will have to take care of it. I'm there in my head intellectually, but rarely on a moment to moment emotional basis. Matters always seem to work out eventually....I guess!
And, we now still have a bit of twilight left by 5:30pm!

Valentines papercut swans cards, adult art class display, 2/10/20

Students drew their own templates following along with my demo drawing. They made extra templates to use as a future reference.

After cutting out their kissing swans templates, students either made a background card for the papercut and/or made a larger full sheet design on card stock. They tipped their papercuts onto the background sheet using either glue stick or tape, (masking), rolled sticky side out to make a kind of double stick tape.

What a beautiful array here. Especially against the library's new paint job.

My angel figure, after those Neopolitan angels...

 A beautiful marionette puppet showed up in a marionette puppet group I follow. Puppets so often are charicatures. I prefer the lovely beautiful kind. But puppets have strings attached, magical though they may be. The one I refer to has beauty and reminds me that I want to make a doll. 

I did make one several years ago. I was trying for something like the Neopolitan Christmas angels. Mine started with my making 5 heads of sculpey clay and wire up through the head for the halos. After that the heads waited for me to make something of them. Only one became a figure, an angel.... sometime between 1995 and 2004 I’m guessing. I did not finish it because I did not know how to resolve the hands or the wings.

“An angel ‘doll’ I made has sculpey head I think, and some plaster stuff for hands. Thought they’d be carveable. Body is wire armature wrapped in thin sock stripping. The robes are some kind of velour, with a wire around the hem of the skirt. I wanted a poseable like the Neopolitan angels. The wings in this keep falling off - they are just wrapping paper and not properly fastened.” -CK

If I add a string to his halo perhaps he can also be a sort of marionette, or at least qualify to show in that group. I’d better make a video for this angel

Testing if stylus draws in Mail just as iPencil is supposed to... digital drawings, 2/5/20

And now I’m in mail on the phone and will insert the pic I 

Yes, it does. It just drags on the surface, its sticky. Finger or fingernail work too. I drew here in mail on iPad and saved it. That took it off the screen. I better be able to attach that now from the camera roll. Oh boy if i cant find it...!  Yes... just insert.

drew w stylus in notes.
Will it appear same size as iPad drawing done in mail?
Phone screen size for drawing in Notes is c. 2.75 x 3” ?

It did that weird thing of turning black with colored lines when it enlarged for choosing....but normal once inserted.

I’ll try a dreaded finger drawing, in the phone mail. Ugh. 
Every thing is out of order here now though since this was originally written in email I hopes of posting to blog by email. That blog platform only works 50% of the time! I keep trying it because if it does work it’s easier!