Here are my demonstration drawings from the kids' workshop on drawing owls and bats. Click the title links for enlargements to color and draw from.

Flying Bat and Hanging Bat coloring page, after Maurice Sendak, from The Bat Poet, by Randall Jarrell

Owl Looking at the Moon coloring page 

Inspired by Arnold Lobel's Owl at Home. I asked the kids what pictures they could remember from the book. The owl running up and down stairs, and the owl looking at the moon. Which did they want to try? The owl looking at the moon, but not dressed in a suit. I think they thought this would be easiest to draw.

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Updated: Thursday, 18 October 2007 11:33 PM EDT

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My demonstration drawings from a recent kids' drawing workshop - click the title links for coloring pages to draw or color. Some were drawn from old silhouette illustrations. There is a drawing after Beatrix Potter's Pig Robinson. Kippe Kuh is a Danish children's book that my grandmother Thyra Jakstein translated into German. It was read to me often - about a stubborn cow who wanders off the farm and into the city. I think she even rides a street car!

Old cow coloring page	"Kippe Kuh" coloring page
Old pig coloring page	Pigs, after Beatrix Potter, coloring page
Ram, Ewe, and lamb coloring page	Step-by-step drawing of ram (pdf)

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Updated: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 12:45 AM EDT

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Here are my demonstrations from this week's kids' drawing lesson. For chickens, roosters, and duck coloring pages of the demonstrations click the links. Print them out and give a try at drawing them yourself or have fun coloring them. For references we used Chanticleer and the Fox, The Story about Ping, The Puddleducks after Beatrix Potter, and Putiput's Abenteuer, a German picture book I had as a three year old. Kids art from the workshop follows.

Rooster coloring page	Chanticleer coloring page
Mother Hen and chick (Putiput) coloring page	Ducks coloring page - Ping and the Puddleducks

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September children's drawing workshop themes are "Farms and Gathering the Harvest". We will do farm animals in the next few weeks. These are my demonstration drawings from this week's workshop at Rockland Public Library. Click the titles for coloring pages.

"Haying",coloring page after Kosti Ruohomaa photo
Harvest on the Farm Coloring Page
"Squirrels fishing",coloring page after Beatrix Potter

The kids wondered HOW? were they going to draw all that hay in the photo by Kosti Ruohomaa I showed them. No, they would never be able to do it. We can't draw that! I drew the hay in simple mound shapes and finally later dashed in some strokes to indicate hay sticking out. The kids made exuberant pounding sounds on the table as they dashed in their own hay strokes. 

We'd come to the end of our time and had not gotten to squirrels. I quickly told them the story of Beatrix Potter's  The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. We chose some squirrels fishing to draw from. We never got to do any chipmunks.

Catinka's Demonstration Drawings 

Children's Art 

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Updated: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 4:35 PM EDT

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Here are my demonstration horse drawings for last week's "Let's Draw Together" children's drawing workshop at the Rockland Public Library. For inspiration and reference I turned to the Horses of San Marco, Venice, and sumi-e artists such as Hakuho Hirayama and Takahiko Mikami.

Click the titles for horse coloring pages of the drawings:
Horse head coloring page, after horses of San Marco, Venice
Unicorn head, coloring page
Sumi-e style horse B
Sumi-e style horse A

Click the 'Read More' link to see the kids' art, if you can't see it already.

Kids' horse drawings - I haven't solved the camera exposure problem yet. Pencil drawings are just too light for the camera. I've tried all kinds of digital doctoring with the software I have, Nikon Editor and Graphic Converter:

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