CLASS 5.....2/10/2021

 

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

Select 4 objects from the options shown below and arrange them to create an interesting composition (draw and paint)

this is just for practice, not homework.

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Home Work

Create a still-life composition of a scene in your kitchen.

(this is a childhood memory)

Try if possible to include at least one unique item (a kitchen utensil, native fruit or vegetable, a special ingredient used in cooking etc.)

Draw and paint your composition.

You can submit / email your finished work.

The first 5 I receive will be discussed in class

The first 10 I receive will be uploaded unto this website.

(email) the finished Painting. 

YOU MUST HAVE YOUR SUBMISSIONS IN BY Monday 17th February.

send emails to   urczoom@yahoo.com  (put 'Watercolor' as the subject.)

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Requests made by students

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Janet Lippmann

Getting ready to bake my Grandmothers cake recipe.

Marian Blasi

The shelf items were there. I used to climb up on the chair to get at the pens and pencils in the glass jar above.

Rosemary Hocking

Lauri Arbeit

A Dozen Scoops of Ice Cream at our Kitchen Table

Gayle Wanamaker

Here is my grandmothers kitchen. She was whimsical and so fun. We shared many trips to the market with her crate and baskets. I loved going to the market to shop! I loved being in her kitchen nook, as it was like a fairyland. The suitcases, trunks were packed and always ready to leave on a moments notice for any trip that was proposed to her. Boom....she was out the door.

Our kitchen was very small and utilitarian. Our dining room, however, was big and bright and the gathering place for our family and friends. The hutch was the focal point of the room. Different dishes and objects rotated on and off it according to the seasons and holidays. But “the chicken lamp”, as we referred to it, was a staple. All important papers and bills were stored behind it. These are various objects I remember, though they weren’t actually displayed together. The view is from my seat at the dining room table.

Nancy Vido

My grandparents were members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Every Saturday before Easter we would gather in the basement of their church to have our basket of food, each piece with a symbolic meaning, blessed. Here the basket is ready and waiting to go.

Fay Novack

This was our kitchen on Friday night ready for the Sabbath. In the cabinet on the right is a mortar and pestal that my grandmother brought from Europe and an ancient oil lamp in the shape of a duck ( it is over 1,000 years old).The gray on the window at the bottom is an ice box. Thank you for a most wonderful class. Not only do I paint my memories, I think about them all week and remember my family that are no longer with me. 

Barbara Scharf

Homework: liverwurst sandwhiches at my moms kitchen table in New Hyde Park. We lived about 3 blocks from school so I came home every day for lunch

Laurie Wertheimer

Our 1970s cocoa-brown kitchen

Katonya Cobham

this is a photo of my mom holding me as a baby and the other is me about age 5 upset because I asked my grandmother if I could wash the dishes, she said no, I’m too little.

Michael Colin

When I was a youngster I used to help my Mother bake cookies. The grey container with the orange top is a flour sifter.

Florence Manglani

This is a painting of the kitchen In India. It shows some of the utensils that were always around. The earthenware vessel with a tap on the left side of the picture is called a Matka. It was used to hold drinking water as it kept the water cold. After boiling water, my mom used to cool the water and fill up the matka.  When my sister and I came home from school, the house keeper would give us a glass of cold water from this matka or whenever we felt thirsty, we would get some water from it. My mom made sure that it was always full.

Sonia Val

My favorite dish, mofongo, an African, Spanish & Taino meal, is made using fried green plantains, garlic, olive oil, & pork crackling. We'd rush home from school to help mom peel the bananas & garlic, used a "pilon and maceta", a mortar & pestle, to mash & smash the plaintains & add seasonings. Yum....! The red apple clock was 1st thing we kids checked coming home - on time... I found & bought same clock 20 years ago @ antiques shop... it took me back in time to wonderful memories.

Yolande Collimore

Ellen Heaphy

The iron cooking pan and top was my mother's which I still use. The bowl is corning ware from the 1960's, the flower bottle is an antique pickle jar.

“Good morning Tons,” that’s my pet name given by my mother “I would like you to do the bake for me” I’ll explain the “do” later. A coconut bake is a type of bread made with flour grated coconut, butter, eggs, milk, baking powder, salt and sugar. The ingredients are[1] mixed together and kneaded and left to rise. A rolling pin is then used to flatten it out and then it is placed on a iron platten or Tawa so called by our east Indian community. The two sides are baked on the Platten but the edge also needs to be done and this is where the “do” comes in. Here I have to hold the bake upright and rotate it, cooking the edge section by section until complete. I hated this monotonous task but the thoughts of how tasty it would be erased all the monotony and dislike for it.

Thao