Daily Figure Inventions - making up figure arrangements on the spot
Topic: Figure Sketches

 

I realized the other day that I must start playing around with the figure. Working from life would be great if models could hold action poses long enough to draw them. Working from photos always seems to look like it is from a photo. Not sure how I will go about this. For now I will have to mess about with inventions. No idea where this may be going.

These were done quickly on 1/4 sheet pieces of card stock in a variety of media - pencil, soft pencil, colored pencil, watercolor. 

Apples, Apple Bough Lesson - and adult student work
Topic: Art Class

My demonstrations from the apples & spheres lesson, student work follows - what a bumper crop we got today!

Exercises:

a)Build up a sphere form as if you were winding up tangled yarn, working from the center out. Feel/imagine the form massing as you scribble.

b)Draw a sphere from the outside tracing your pencil round and round that round form. Remember it exists in space. Pretend that paper is space instead of flatness. Imagine imagine pretend pretend!

c)Draw a good circle. Imagine a light source at the upper left hand corner. Lightly draw that edge where the light on the sphere turns to shadow. Layer in 3 layers of tone. Feel the roundness of the form as you layer in the tone. Note the bounce back light on the right side of the sphere in shadow. Lay in the cast shadow - almost like  a saucer.

d) Draw up a red sphere much like the tonal drawing of 'c'. Make sure to leave a bit of highlight.

After the exercises we drew an apple bough working from my photo.

 

Fall and Halloween Themes for Children's October Drawing Classes at Rockland Library
Topic: Kids Art Class

Press Release:
Rockland - Children, and those young at heart, will explore fall and Halloween themes in the ongoing drawing classes led by Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library, 80 Union  St. The "Let's Draw Together!" workshops, geared for ages 6 and up, also welcome adults. Children 10 and under should be accompanied by an adult. Classes meet every Tuesday from 4-5 p.m. in the Friends Community Room.

October's subjects may include:  autumn leaves and trees; pumpkin patches and scarecrows; owls, bats, and cats; and a spooky Halloween with Jack-O-Lanterns, witches, goblins, and  haunted houses.

The workshops, sponsored by local patrons Wendy and Keith Wellin, and hosted by Friends of Rockland Library,  are free and open to the public, with all materials provided. Participants draw along with Knoth's demonstrations. Knoth, a Rockland artist, is known for her watercolors of Maine scenes and animal drawings. Her work may be seen at www.catinkacards.com. For more workshop information, call Jean Young, children's librarian, at 594-0310.

Pumpkins demonstration drawing

Scarecrow and crows demonstration drawing

Pumpkin & scarecrow art by kids

Owls, Cats, & Bats demonstration drawing

Owls, Cats,& Bats drawings by kids

Autumn Themes Free October Art Workshop Series at Rockland Public Library
Topic: Art Class

Press Release: 

Rockland - Catinka Knoth   demonstrates drawing and painting  October's autumn themes, with a focus on drawing in color, 11 a.m.  Mondays, October 3rd, 17th, 24th, and 31st, at the Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St.   Led by Knoth, participants will  create their own  colored drawings of apple motifs, fall leaves, autumn landscape scenes, and Halloween pumpkins .  If time allows, Knoth will demonstrate watercolor techniques.  Knoth provides the  classes  free of charge and open to the general public, with materials supplied, and  Friends of Rockland Library host. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

Knoth will provide instruction and guidance in drawing October fall themes. Each week is a different  subject, as follows:
10/03        Apples and apple trees
10/17        Autumn leaves
10/24        Fall scenes
10/31        Halloween pumpkins 

Apple tree

Autumn Leaves

Visions of Fall
Halloween Jack-O-Lantern and Black Cat

"Scenes of September in Maine" Art Workshops, at Rockland Library
Topic: Art Class
September press release:

Rockland - Catinka Knoth   demonstrates drawing and painting  scenes of September in Maine, with a focus on buildings, 11 a.m.  Mondays, September 12th, 19th,  and at Noon September 26th, at Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St.   Led by Knoth, participants will also make their own barn, schoolhouse, and farmhouse drawings in color. The  workshops are free and open to the general public, with materials supplied, hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. FMI Knoth at 596-0069 or Rockland Library at 594-0310.

 Knoth will demonstrate painting another version of  her watercolor, "Haying at Harjula's". Knoth will lead students in drawing several scenes of iconic  Maine buildings. She will guide students in simple aspects of the principles of perspective.  Scenes of well known buildings from St. George and South Thomaston  along the St. George peninsula will be the subjects for the classes. Each week is a different building - a barn, a former schoolhouse, and a typical Maine farmhouse.

Each week is a different scene:
09/12    11am    Harjula's barn and haying in September
09/19    11am    The Little Green School House     
09/26    Noon    A Maine farmhouse

See a photo of this old Maine farmhouse in September: