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May Themes - Adult art class program

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:04:58 -0500

May Themes Art Workshops for Adults at Rockland Public Library, 2013

Rockland - Local artist Catinka Knoth will lead workshops on creating art for American Wetlands Month and International Migratory Birds Day, at Rockland Public Library. Each week will be a different subject. Classes meet 11 a.m. Mondays, in the Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Led by Knoth, participants will create their own art. Knoth provides the classes free of charge, with materials supplied. Friends of Rockland Library host the workshops, which are open to the public. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

5/06   Frogs & lily ponds
5/13   Herons & egrets
5/20   Migratory birds and warblers
5/27    Library closed for Memorial Day

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing and creating the May themes. Each week is a different subject - such as frogs, lily ponds, herons, egrets, warblers, and migratory birds. Participants will work with pencil, colored pencil, crayon, and perhaps scissors, with a focus on drawing in color.

Knoth paints watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which she offers as cards and prints. She also teaches a free weekly children's drawing class at Rockland Public Library, which is sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin. For more information about Knoth's work visit www.catinkacards.com.

Demonstration drawings, one with a bit of perspective for 'lily pads' in a pond

Let's Draw Marvelous May! - Kids' May drawing program

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:17:06 -0500

Press Release:

"Let's Draw Marvelous May!" - Children's
Drawing Workshops at Rockland Public Library

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

The ongoing workshops, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, for age 6 and up, (including the young at heart), are free and open to the public. Children age 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult. Knoth expects participants to be able 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., hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. 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 is another May celebration and a chance to draw Spring warblers and other migratory birds. Knoth leads attendees in step-by-step drawing instruction for the day's theme. She encourages adults to participate and discover that drawing is for everyone.

5/07    Mother's Day cards & May baskets
5/14    Marsh & Wetlands Life
5/21    Memorial Day
5/28    Migratory birds

Spring Peepers - an April kids' drawing class

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:11:03 -0500

Someone reported hearing the peepers the other day. We had a drop of snow/sleet last night. Hoping that is ok for the peepers and they have not been fooled too badly. Hopefully we'll get some baby bird drawings done too. Just checked the schedule and found I'd forgotten about this. See you Tues, 4pm at Rockland Public Library, Community Room, ready to draw. Or, just have fun at home with peeper/frog drawings. You could always print this out and color it. I know, it is way to big for this blog window format:( ....

Testing whether this posts to Facebook page via RSS Grafitti app. I finally set up an auto post feed. Blogposts should automatically feed to my Catinka Knoth - Artist FB page, tho it won't be in real time.

Let's Draw April Awakenings - children's drawing classes at Rockland Library

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:38:33 -0500

Press Release

"Let's Draw April Awakenings!" - Children's Drawing Classes at Rockland Library, 2013

Rockland - Children will draw in celebration of Spring this April at Rockland Public Library. Participants draw along with artist Catinka Knoth as she demonstrates. Subjects may include fairy tale papercuts in honor of Hans Christian Anderson's birthday; koi kites and cherry trees for the Japanese Spring Festival, spring peepers and baby birds; baby animals such as bunnies, puppies, kittens, lambs, and colts; and spring flowers such as crocuses, daffodils, and tulips.

"Let's Draw April Awakenings!" -
4/02    Fairy Tale papercuts
4/09    Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival
4/16    Spring Peepers & Baby Birds
4/23    Baby Animals
4/30    Spring Flowers

The ongoing workshops, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, for age 6 and up, (including the young at heart), are free and open to the public. Children age 10 and under should have an adult accompany them. Knoth expects participants to be able to work independently for the most part. Classes provide all materials and 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.

Demonstration art and photos by Catinka Knoth (to follow).

Spring Themes for April adult art classes at Rockland Library

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:33:25 -0500

Press Release:

April Art Workshops for Adults at Rockland Library

Rockland - Catinka Knoth will lead a drawing workshop series for adults, on creating 'April Art'. Attendees will explore themes such as Spring papercuts; the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival; and spring flowers. Classes meet 11 a.m. Mondays, April 1, 8, 22, and 29th; in the Community Room,Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Led by Knoth, participants will create their own art. Knoth provides the classes free of charge, with materials supplied. Friends of Rockland Library host the workshops, which are open to the public. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

4/01    Spring Papercuts
4/08    Cherry Trees
4/15    No Class - library closed for Patriots' Day
4/22    Daffodils & Yellows
4/29    Tulips

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing and creating the April themes. Each week is a different subject. Participants will work with pencil, colored pencil, and crayon, and sometimes scissors, with a focus on drawing in color.

Knoth paints watercolors of Maine and whimsical animal scenes, which she offers as cards and prints. She also teaches a free weekly children's drawing class at Rockland Public Library, which is sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin. For more information about Knoth's work visit www.catinkacards.com.

Demonstration drawings, art, and photos by Catinka Knoth (to follow).

March Motifs- Sled dogs, Celtic designs, Circus Figures, Easter Cards - Adult Art Class 2013

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:39:47 -0500

"March Motifs" Adult Art Workshop Series with Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library, 2013

Rockland - Catinka Knoth will lead an art workshop series for adults, on creating art around March Motifs. Participants will visit themes such as the Iditarod dog sled races, celtic designs for St. Patrick's Day, the circus, and Easter. Each week will be a different subject. Classes meet 11 a.m. on Mondays, in the Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Led by Knoth, participants will create their own art. Knoth provides the classes free of charge, with materials supplied. Friends of Rockland Library host the workshops, which are open to the public. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

3/04   Iditarod sled dog races & husky dogs
3/11   St. Patricks Day & Celtic designs
3/18    Circus figures
3/25   Easter designs and cards

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing and creating March motifs. Participants will work with pencil, colored pencil, crayon, and papercutting, with a focus on drawing in color.

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, which is sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin. For more information about Knoth's work visit www.catinkacards.com.

Iditarod, St. Patrick's Day, the Circus, Easter cards - March Medley kids' drawing classes

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:21:55 -0500

"Let's Draw A March Medley!" - Children's Drawing Workshops at Rockland Public Library, 2013

Press Release: Rockland - This March, children will draw the Iditarod Dog Sled Races, St. Patrick's Day, the circus, and designs and cards for Easter, at Rockland Public Library's ongoing drawing workshops led by Rockland artist Catinka Knoth. Participants follow along with Knoth as she demonstrates creating a variety of subjects for March. Husky dogs, mushers and dog sled teams, are motifs from the Iditarod Race in Alaska. The class may also experiment with papercuts of dog teams. St. Patrick's Day has it's shamrocks, St. Patrick, leprechauns, pots of gold, rainbows, and Celtic designs.Traditionally March was when 'the circus comes to town', bringing acrobats, animals, clowns, and tents. Easter motifs include bunnies and decorated eggs.

Sponsored by local patrons, Wendy and Keith Wellin, the workshops, for age 6 and up, and the young at heart, are free and open to the public. Children age 10 and under need adult accompaniment. All materials are provided. 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.

Tuesdays; 4-5pm, "Let's Draw a March Medley!"

03/05    "Let's Draw the Iditarod Races and Sled Dogs!"
03/12   "Let's Draw for St. Patrick's Day!"
03/19   "Let's Draw the Circus!"
03/26   "Let's Draw the Easter Eggs, Bunnies, and Cards!"

A circus puppet show of triangle circus people - our youtube video

Download Eggs & Bunny Coloring Page

Presidents' Day - a crow story

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:17:33 -0500

Presidents' Day.

Cory Crow had heard that it was Presidents' Day. He'd seen and heard the people talking about Presidents' Day sales as they returned to their cars in the parking lot at one of the big huge stores in the little town. He had heard more about it from a radio playing in someone's car as they waited for their family to return. Cory saw that lots of people were out shopping. He'd seen people going to the car dealerships too. He wondered that they would go to buy cars on this day.

Cory heard from the radio that Presidents' Day mostly honored George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Washington had been the first president of the United States, and Lincoln, the 16th president. Washington was born on February 22, 1732, and Lincoln on February 12, 1809. Their February birthdays used to be celebrated separately but now they were celebrated on the third Monday of February. It was a national holiday. Government offices, banks, post offices, and schools were closed. Many schools also had a winter vacation week during this time.

Cory had seen portraits of these presidents on the people's money. Washington's face was on the old quarter coin and on one dollar bills. Lincoln's profile was on the penny and his face was on five dollar bills.

There were monuments and memorials of these presidents. A huge carving of their heads, along with two other presidents, was on a granite rock mountainside called Mount Rushmore. In Washington D.C. there was a large statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a throne like chair. They called this the Lincoln Memorial. The Washington Monument was a very tall obelisk. People came from all over the world to see these monuments.

There were also some well known paintings about Washington in the museums. Gilbert Stuart painted portraits in oil paints. Washington had commissioned Stuart to paint his portrait. Stuart did the painting but never delivered it to Washington. He kept the portrait so that he could paint copies of it to sell. Stuart realized that a lot of people would want a portrait of Washington, the first president of the United States. He painted many replica portraits from that first painting.

A painting by another artist shows Washington on his horse, in his role as the general who led the American colonies in the American Revolutionary War. A painting by Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, shows Washington as he led his troops in small boats over the Delaware River during a bitter winter storm.

Lincoln had led the country through the Civil War, a war that ended slavery in the United States. Photography was a new technology during that time. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady made many photographs of Lincoln.

Cory flew by the building with the big window where he'd seen people making art. It was a class at the library. One day a week there were kids with their parents who came to draw. He wondered if they would draw something for Presidents' Day. But the library was closed that day because of the holiday. Maybe they would have the art class the next day and draw portraits of Presidents Washington and Lincoln. Cory wondered what such portraits might look like.

He saw a newspaper that had fallen out of a trash can. The page it was open to carried a large advertisement for a Presidents' Day Sale. It was illustrated with a pair of stark black and white silhouette pictures of both Washington and Lincoln.

Cory got an idea. He could pluck out some of his own little black feathers and arrange them to look like that picture. He tried to do this in the snow, but the wind kept blowing the feathers away. Next he gathered a pile of twigs and tried lining them up to make the shapes of the presidents' silhouettes. Yes, that was looking a bit like the portraits in the newspaper. The wind soon blew the twigs away, but Cory felt very pleased with himself and his art experiment.

Dancing - a Crow story

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:39:35 -0500

Dancing

Cory Crow wanted to make up a dance. He'd seen people inside of a big room in one of the buildings around town, and stayed to watch them from his perch in a tree outside the window. They would gather at a certain time in that room, play some music and start moving around keeping the same beat as the sounds that Cory could hear.

They bounced up and down. They waved their arms in the air. They kicked their legs up high in front and in back of them. They raised their legs high first to one side then the other. They made tapping sounds with their feet - taps that were sometimes just like the music and sometimes weaving in and out and around the music. They clicked their fingers. They clapped their hands. They swayed their hips from side to side and jiggled their fannies. They hopped up and down first on one foot then on the other. They rolled their heads around. They made their hair and their clothes swing to the music too.

Sometimes they held hands and made a big circle with each other. They made the circle turn in one direction and then go around in the other direction - like a big hoop or ring. They would walk slowly in the circle together and then they would run in the circle. They would make the circle get as small as they could by walking to the center and raising their arms. They would stamp their feet - stomp, stomp, stomp. They would jump all at the same time - boom boom boom. Cory could feel the air vibrate and see the windows shake when they did that - bam, bam, bam.

Sometimes they danced singly, and sometimes they paired up and danced as couples. They used different kinds of music for different dances. Cory did not have any music to dance to but perhaps he could try some dancing anyway. When the people stopped dancing and went home, he could hardly wait to get home to try dancing.

He went back to the yard where he usually gathered with his friends. No, he did not want to try dancing where the others could see him, not yet. Cory found a big flat rooftop, an old abandonned building, where he could try his dancing without being afraid of others watching him and laughing at him yet.

He jumped around in a circle. He spread his wings and hopped around with them open. He flapped his wings slowly as he hopped up and around. He bobbed his head up and down and weaved it from side to side. He dipped his beak to the ground with his head turned a bit. He jumped forward and backward. He was having a good time dancing.

He looked up. There was Camilla Crow on the rooftop wall sitting very still and watching him. For a moment Cory felt foolish. But then he puffed up his feathers, especially around his head, neck, and chest. Camilla flew over to him to watch close up. Cory started his dancing again. She stayed to watch. Cory danced in front of Camilla and then around her. She was enjoying his dance. She bobbed her head a little bit from side to side, in admiration and appreciation.

Cory stopped to rest from his dance. Without a word, Cory and Camilla flew off together to see what food they might find at the beach or the park

Making a Valentine - a crow story, and a Valentine papercut. Happy Valentine's Day!

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:40:20 -0500

Making a Valentine

It was Valentine's Day. Cory Crow had heard the lady talking on the radio program through the open window of the lady who threw out peanuts for him and his buddies on most days. The radio program lady was telling people to call in with their special requests for Valentine's Day music. She was also telling people they could give Valentines to anyone they thought did something special - give someone a Valentine surprise she had said. Cory liked her idea. The music had been nice too. It was mostly all classical music.

Cory wondered what he could do to give a special message for Valentine's Day and whom should he do this for? He walked around in a circle on the snow in the yard as he thought about his question. He had just come back to where he'd started walking. There were footprints in front of him now. At first he wondered who else was around him. He did not see any of his friends around. It was just him. Those were his footprints.

He flew up into the tree where he could see his footprints better. That was a pretty good circle he had made. He knew what a heart looked like. Could he make footprints that made a heart shape? He flew back down where he could try it out in an unmarked area of snow. He wanted to start at the top center of one wing, walk around and down to the point of the heart he would make, and then walk up and around the other wing or side of the heart to end up back at the top center. He would have to walk an imaginary line. He did not know how he could keep the two sides of the heart even looking. He might just have to hope for the best on that one. Would it really matter that much if the heart was lopsided? He just wanted his footprints to look something like a heart. He would be happy if he could do that.

Cory set about making his heart for Valentine's Day. After he had made about twenty footprints, he flew up in the tree where he could have a look at his work. There was not enough to see anything yet. He went back down to lay down more footprints. Another twenty and he flew up into the tree to look down. Now he could see that he had interrupted his line of footprints by stopping to have a look from the tree. The line interruption made the heart edge look a bit broken and uneven. He would have to just keep walking without stopping to check on it until he got back to the center. Then the heart would be finished.

Sonya Squirrel saw him walking around the yard and came over to ask him what he was doing. She was heading right over and was about to cross his path with her own footprints. He saw her. Stop! I'm making a heart design for Valentine's Day. You can do it too. Then we can have two hearts in the snow. You can even have your heart mingle with mine.

Sonya liked that and started walking a heart that criss-crossed Cory's heart. Billie Bluejay saw Sonya and Cory walking in the snow and called out to them. Why are you two walking around over here when there are peanuts out back? We're making hearts for Valentine's Day! You can make one too. You can add a heart to our heart chain or you can make a bigger heart around one of these hearts or a smaller one inside one of them. Billie decided he would walk around the inside of Cory's heart.

Stevie Squirrel, Beliza BlueJay, and Carmen Crow saw the others at work with their heart walking. They came over and added their own paths of footprints to the hearts in the snow. When they'd done, they all went up into the tree to admire the big Valentine they had made together. Beautiful.

The lady looked out of her window and saw the beautiful Valentine heart design in the snowy yard below. She was amazed to see it. She was amazed anyway whenever she saw any of the animal footprints. To her they always made such pretty patterns before they got covered over and over again with lots of footprints. What a lovely Valentine's Day this was to be able to see such magic in the yard.