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This week for Valentine's Day I gave a lesson on painting house finches. In this lesson you will find papercuts, sumi-e painting, an animation and a pair of finches coloring page.
I hope the art lesson on house finches will encourage you to observe the wonders around you.
Here is a lesson on painting penguins I've been teaching in my watercolor classes this week.
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Penguins ink painting by Catinka Knoth
You'll find some reference photos of penguins at Kidzone. Gaylen Frysinger has good information about penguins. Enjoy studying and painting penguins!
Finally some owl coloring pages. People land here thinking they will find such a thing because I have images from Owls Head, Maine. I hope to oblige you now with some brush and ink paintings I did. The references for these owls came from a now inactive Owl Cam in Massachusetts.
Click the links below to enlarge and print out.
Happy Birthday Owl Coloring Page
More Owl Coloring Pages by Catinka Knoth
I had a hankering to try out this idea yesterday. What prompted the idea? Someone had arrived at my blog entry for stovetop chocolate bread by googling "how to bake a cake on a stovetop", according to my traffic logs. I usually replicate such searches to see just where my site turns up in Google. In the process I look into any results that intrigue me. Such a one, and I've found and read this one before, is an article by Ruth Ross on making stovetop steamed breads and cakes in Mother Earth News from the 1970's. The article reinspired me, gave me the idea to try a fruitcake. I peruse recipes to get a general gist or feel of how to make something. I find it so much more fun to invent my own recipe just to see if I can do it, or to see what comes out. However, I use a mix of eyeball measuring and exact measuring, and only write things down afterwards. I try to hold on to the memory until I get to a pencil. This is much like painting. I cannot know until I see how things mix up if the proportions are right. Everything depends on everything else - as in Life.
I started out by imagining what fruit I had on hand, and did I want to try to make it like a fruitcake or like a pie without a crust or perhaps a cross between the two. Pie without a crust called louder. Would I use the Macintosh apple or the Empire apple - Mac was better for cooking. But wait, this lot of Macs had been so tasty. I had to eat some of it first. Then there was a bowl of cranberries that had never made it into sauce at Thanksgiving. I salvaged a handful of those. And I had some good raisins. This was a perfect combination. The old raspberries in the freezer would have to wait for another experiment.
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