Maine Drawing and Watercolor Painting Art Workshops with Rockland artist Catinka Knoth

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Learn to draw and paint Maine coastal scenes in watercolor. Depict lighthouses, lupine, beach roses, belted galloway cows, lobsterboats and more in these Midcoast Maine watercolor painting art workshops. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth for home studio (currently the kitchen table) classes in Rockland, Maine. And, free adult drawing classes at Rockland Public Library. Mondays at 11 am. We draw with pencils, colored pencils, crayons, and scissors. A new subject every week. For all levels.

Past (2010) Watercolor Painting Art Workshop Listings

These classes took place in studio in the former Lincoln Street Center. As of this update 7/9/15, I have been holding almost weekly free drawing in color art classes at Rockland Public Library - Mondays at 11 am. Subjects/themes follow about the same general order as the 2010 calendar. Join me there when you are in the area, or book a private watercolor workshop!

You may schedule any of these workshops for yourself or your group year round.
Fees: Private workshops are $75 - 2 hour lesson & $125 - double session,one student; $195 - up to 4 students.

Learn to draw and paint a Maine Lighthouse

Get Your Brush Wet Watercolor Sampler

Learn to create a scene of lupine in the Maine landscape.

Learn to paint a Maine scene of beach roses on the shore

Paint a Maine poppy garden scene.

Learn to paint a watercolor of a Maine lobsterboat harbor scene.

Learn to draw and paint Belted Galloway cows.


Monthly Four Part Watercolor Workshop Series:

October (2010)
Fall Leaves painting demonstration on Monday 10/4, "Painting Fall Themes" watercolor workshop series - Tuesdays 10-Noon @ Lincoln Street Center. Click above link to read more on my blogpost.

10/05   Fall leaves
10/12   Fall foliage landscape
10/19   Gourds
10/26   Halloween & pumpkins

September (2010)
"Painting September Scenes" watercolor workshop series explores Monarch butterflies; sunflowers and late summer gardens; barn and haying scene; apples and orchards; Class meets every Tuesday, 10am-Noon, Sept 7, 14, 21, 28, at Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, 24 Lincoln St. Downstairs in "The Messy Art Room", Studio #4. Click above link for further details on my blogpost.

Each week is a different motif:
9/07   Monarch Butterfles
9/14   Sunflowers and late summer gardens
9/21   Haying and fields
9/28   Apples and orchards

"Painting Maine Landscapes" - watercolor workshop series

"Blooms & Brushes" Maine floral landscapes watercolor workshop series

"Birds & Brushes" Watercolor Workshop Series

Let's Paint Spring Flowers! - Watercolor Workshop Series


More workshop subject and lesson options

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Learn to draw and paint a Maine lighthouse. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint Marshall Point lighthouse. Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of the  beloved Port Clyde lighthouse (remember that lighthouse scene in the movie Forest Gump?).  This self contained two hour workshop, is an indoor class. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.

See some of Catinka's Maine lighthouse watercolors in cards and prints.

Contact: Catinka Knoth, email: workshops@catinkacards.com, tel: 207-596-0069, or 207-691-5544

See demonstration watercolor and drawings from a lighthouse workshop.

"Get Your Brush Wet Watercolor Sampler" - an exploration of basic watercolor techniques. Create a series of samples to use for future painting reference. Use brainstorming, self observation, and hands-on instruction to work up your own watercolor resource. Processes and techniques may include washes, calligraphy, negative painting, textures, values, colors.


Let's Paint Spring Flowers! - Watercolor Workshop Series - Create your spring plantings in watercolor, let your paintings take root, seed your mind with fresh ideas, watch flowers grow from your brush.

We will experiment with explorations in sumi-e inspired calligraphic brushwork, negative and positive shapes, contour drawing, variegated washes, and glazing. Photographs of spring flowers such as crocus, daffodil, tulips, and iris will provide a different subject for each session. Paintings by O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, John LaFarge, John William Hill, may also serve as inspiration and models for study.


Call Catinka Knoth at 207-596-0069, or 207-691-5544, or email workshops@catinkacards.com

Catinka's spring flowers watercolor paintings in cards & prints

"Birds & Brushes" Watercolor Workshop Series Let your imagination soar, your brush take flight, as you express the freedom and beauty of birds. Students will work indoors creating from either their own or provided reference photos. Each week will be a different bird - cardinals, finches, warblers, hummingbirds, herons, & egrets. Catinka will demonstrate exercises and painting techniques such as sumie style calligraphy, working with washes, creating textures with wet-in-wet and drybrush, direct painting, and using negative spaces to create white shapes. Beginner to intermediate levels.

"Let's Draw and Paint a Maine Scene!"

Learn to draw and paint a Maine Lighthouse
Learn to create a scene of lupine in the Maine landscape.
Learn to paint a Maine scene of beach roses on the shore
Paint a Maine poppy garden scene.
Learn to paint a watercolor of a Maine lobsterboat harbor scene.
Learn to draw and paint Belted Galloway cows.

Learn to create a scene of lupine in the Maine landscape. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint the iconic  blue and purple lupine that bloom along the Maine countryside in June. Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of these hardy abundant wildflowers. You may remember Barbara Cooney's The Lupine Lady, an enchanting children's book. This self contained two hour workshop, is held in the studio. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.

Catinka's lupine watercolor paintings in cards and prints

Learn to paint a Maine scene of beach roses on the shore Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint the Rosa Rugosa that bloom along the Maine shoreline in late June early July.  Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of these fragrant wildflowers.  This self contained two hour workshop is held indoors. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.

Catinka's wildflower watercolor scenes in cards & prints

Paint a Maine poppy garden scene. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on drawing and painting scenes of these brilliant flowers of early summer.  Childe Hassam's watercolors of wild poppies blooming in Celia Thaxter's Isle of Shoals gardens will also provide inspiration.  Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of these dancing flowers.  This self contained two hour workshop is held indoors. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.

Catinka's poppy and garden watercolor scenes in cards & prints

Learn to paint a watercolor of a Maine lobsterboat harbor scene. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint a lobsterboat docked at the pier after coming in from haul. Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of this aspect of coastal Maine life. This self contained two hour workshop is held in the studio. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.

See some of Catinka's Maine lobsterboat and coastal scene watercolors in cards & prints

Learn to draw and paint Belted Galloway cows. Join watercolor artist Catinka Knoth as she leads you in a step-by-step lesson on how to draw and paint "Belties" or "Oreo Cookie Cows". Participants will create their own drawings and watercolor paintings of these stalwart gentle creatures. Visit the Aldermere farm in Rockport while you're here. It is home to the oldest herd in the United States, started in 1953.  This self contained two hour workshop is held indoors. You may bring your own reference materials and supplies. Some will be available if needed.  Contact the artist to schedule your class.
See some of Catinka's Belted Galloway watercolor paintings in cards & prints

Let's Draw Together! - Children's Drawing Workshops with artist Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library (home page),
Rockland Public Library (map page)

Free ongoing weekly drawing workshops, for ages 6 and up, a great family activity. Children 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult. Participants follow along step-by-step as Catinka demonstrates. They create their own drawings in the process and discover how well they can draw. Free and open to the public, these workshops are sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin and hosted by The Friends of Rockland Library. Materials provided. Community Room. FMI Jean Young, children's librarian,207-594-0310.
Tuesdays, 4-5 pm, Community Room (downstairs), Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St, Rockland, Maine


Winter Themes
Spring Themes
Summer Themes
Fall Themes

From a previous press release with summer calendar:
"Let's Draw Up a Collection of Maine Memories!" - Children's Summer Drawing Class

Children will be exploring Maine themes and motifs in this summer' s ongoing children's drawing classes led by Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library. Children ages 6 and up follow along with Knoth in drawing a variety of subjects. The workshops, sponsored by Wendy and Keith Wellin, are free and open to the public, with all materials provided. Children age 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult. Parents and the young at heart are invited to participate with their children. Weekly classes meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm, Community Room, Rockland Public Library,80 Union St. Rockland, Maine, hosted by the Friends of Rockland Library. FMI - Jean Young, children's librarian, 594-0310

Knoth believes that everyone can draw if they keep their minds and eyes open, and that drawing by 'following along' allows one to discover new ways of interpreting subjects. Knoth, known for her watercolors of Maine scenes and animal drawings, also gives watercolor workshops. Her work may be seen at www.catinkacards.com

Winter Themes

January themes: "Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes"
Winter motifs may include polar bears, penguins, snowy owls, arctic hares and foxes, houses in a snowy landscape, frozen lakes with skaters, and ice fishing.
February: "Let's Draw February's Celebrations!" - Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, winter sports.

Spring Themes
March: "Let's Draw a March Medley!" - Iditarod Sled Dog Race, St. Patrick's Day motifs, Easter and spring, the circus.

April: "Let's Draw April Awakenings!" - Spring flowers, the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, birds, peepers, and baby animals
May: "Let's Draw Marvelous May!" - May baskets, Mother's Day cards, migratory birds, and marsh life

Summer Themes

June:
"Let's draw gardens, strawberries, and lupine!"
"Let's draw Father's Day cards and summer activities!"
"Let's draw visits to the seashore!"
"Let's draw Independence Day celebrations!"

July and August
"Let's Draw Some Maine Town Scenes!"
"Let's Draw Birds of Maine - chickadees, ospreys, herons, eagles!"
"Let's Draw Our Favorite Dogs and Cats!"
"Let's Draw Whales, Dolphins, and Harbor Seals!"
"Let's Draw Maine Lighthouse Scenes!"

"Let's Draw Maine Scenes with Lobsterboats and Sailboats!"
"Let's Draw a Maine Farm and Belted Galloway Cows!"
"Let's Draw a Visit to a Maine Country Fair!"
"Let's Draw Animals of the Maine Woods - bears, deer, and moose!

Fall Themes

September themes - Farms, gathering the harvest

Farm scenes, haying, squirrels, chipmunks
  See my demonstration drawings and kids' art
Cows, pigs, sheep
Chickens, roosters, ducks
Apples, apple trees, pumpkins, scarecrows

October Fall and Halloween Themes
"Let's Draw Monarch Butterflies & Butterflies"
"Let's Draw Fall Leaves, Trees, and Cornstalks"
"Let's Draw Owls and Bats"
"Let's Draw Halloween Cats and Jack-O-Lanterns"
"Let's Draw Witches, Goblins, Halloween"

November's themes celebrate Native American Indian heritage and the coming of winter.
"Let's Draw Bears, Racoons, & Foxes!"
"Let's Draw Deer and Moose!"
"Let's Draw Turkeys, Pheasants, and a Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty!"
"Let's Draw Winter Woods and Wildlife!"

December themes: “Let’s Draw Pictures and Cards for the Holiday Season.”
Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, New Years..


Previous Children's Workshops
Let's Draw Birds and Eagles.
Let's Draw Marshall Point Light
Let's Draw Cats
See my demonstration drawings of cats and kids' art
Let's Draw Dogs
See my demonstration drawings of dogs and kids' art
Let's Draw Whales, Dolphins, and Harbor Seals
Let's Draw Rabbits
See my demonstration drawings of rabbits and kids' art
Let's Draw Horses

Possible adult workshop lesson and subject suggestions:.

Maine farmhouse
Maine moose
Maine loon
American Masters - Learn Watercolor by Studying Art History
Edward Hopper watercolors - study and paint from his paintings of Pemaquid Light and Talbot's House in Rockland
Winslow Homer - study and paint from his watercolors of children on the shore, Sloop Bermuda, Schooners at Sunset.
Childe Hassam - study his watercolors of garden scenes and wildflower coastal landscapes.
Frank Benson - learn from his watercolors of birds, waterfowl and hunting scenes.

Contact Catinka Knoth, tel: 207-596-0069, or 207-691-5544
email: workshops@catinkacards.com


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