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Cat and Rabbit's Easter Greeting Coloring Page. You'll have lots of Easter eggs and flowers to color in this scene. Click the link for the enlargement to print out. Have fun!
Catinka's Maine and Animal Coloring Pages
Have fun coloring or painting my ink drawing of Spring Daffodils and Birds Coloring Page. (Click for enlargement.) Years ago I lived in the basement apartment of a little rowhouse in Queens, New York City. I had the pleasure of my own backyard garden that I could step right out my door onto. The ground was at chest height from my apartment floor. I could watch the birds eating their seed at a little below my eyelevel. Their water bath was an old aluminum frypan with a rock in it next to a cluster of daffodils. This vision of the little sparrows and finches hopping around and on the waterbath beside a patch of daffodils has waited until now to reach a piece of paper (or cyberspace). And now it waits for its many more incarnations as you add your color to it.
Catinka's Maine and Animal Coloring Pages
Studies after Edward Hopper's "Talbot's House"
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Try your hand at drawing and painting huskies and sled dogs! Find some reference pictures of Alaskan Huskies, sled dogs, and dogsled teams, dog mushers. Some reference photos came from a Maine Sled dog races challenge site, I believe, but it no longer exists.
Read about the Iditarod sled dog races which start March 3, 2007.
http://www.iditarod.com/2007/dailyarchives/story_218.html
Dog sled team wash painting
Do some direct painting studies in monochrome wash.
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Practice some husky faces with brush and wash working directly with simple lines, a sumi-e style.
Husky face sumi-e line painting-A
Husky face sumi-e line painting-B
Alaskan Husky Brush Line Drawing
Once you have a line painting or drawing you like use it to trace over directly on your watercolor paper and develop a watercolor spontaneously.
Wolf Dog watercolor
A coloring page from a drawing study of a dog mushing team.
It is almost March, which used to also mean the circus was coming. I grew up in New York City, where "the Circus" meant Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Such a big circus could not be housed under a big top tent so it took place at Madison Square Garden. Years later I saw The Big Apple Circus perform in the middle of January in a heated big tent at Lincoln Center (park?) in New York City. Cirque Du Soleil offers a modern dance magical style of circus arts. There are plenty of circuses that still travel with the warm weather playing under the traditional big top tent. Take a look at this 2006 itinerary of Danish circuses and their story (it is a long download though). The world of the circus is an all-in-one expression of the fantastic, the colorful, the magical, the unbelievable, and drama.
Australian artist Margaret Cilento created a troop of acrobats in her circus paintings. Sweeping forms of tightropes, trapezes, tent structures, spotlights and colors interact in counterpoint with the flying figures. This recent show of her paintings at Eva Breuer Gallery in Australia was the inspiration for the lesson this week. To be continued....
Watercolor Class in New York City - One of these days I'll be able to visit the city again. It would be fun to put together an impromptu watercolor class. If anyone is interested in such a thing, do contact me. Or, if you're in Maine you can take one of my two hour lighthouse painting classes in the summer. In the meantime, if you like figure drawing and you're in New York City, visit the Art Students League. They have a drop in figure drawing sketch class, M - F, 5 - 6:30 p.m, $6 per class. It is called "Life Sketch Class". Just go in the office to pay for your ticket then go find a seat in one of the scheduled studios. Bring your drawing materials or buy some in the little supply shop they have.
