Course Overview
Learn from an experienced Celtic Artist about how you can use traditional Celtic Art patterns to create your own contemporary artworks, or to add a touch of Celtic Art to your drawings and paintings.
In this short course Marta will show you how to draw and design border patterns with traditional Celtic Art patterns. You will learn 3 Celtic Art patterns, including: Celtic Knots, Key Patterns, and Step Patterns.
You can use these Celtic Art Border Patterns to enhance your own artworks, frame your favourite quote, or layer with all 3 patterns to create your own complete Celtic artwork.
All levels of experience are welcome.
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this course you will learn to:
- Draw Celtic knots using a diamond dot grid
- Draw Celtic knot patterns in a border
- Draw Celtic key patterns using a diamond dot grid
- Draw Celtic key patterns in a border
- Draw Celtic step patterns using a 5mm grid paper
- Draw Celtic step patterns in a border
- Draw & design a Celtic artwork using 3 Celtic art patterns
- Outline your designs using a pigment marker
- Draw & design a Celtic artwork using 3 Celtic art patterns
- Outline your designs using a pigment marker
- Apply colour using your favourite media
Course outcome
By the end of this course you will be able to draw and colour 3 different Celtic art patterns in borders to use with their own artistic practice.
What you need to know
Entry requirements:
This course is open to beginners and continuing students.
What you need to provide
Materials list for students:- 2B mechanical/pacer pencil
- Ruler, 30cm or longer
- Eraser
- Compass & Protractor
- 0.4 Pigment marker, eg. Artline marker
- A4 Sketch pad
- Colour media, what you have or prefer to use: colour pencils; pigment markers; other felt tip markers
- Paints & water colours or watercolour gouache, acrylics
- Empty jar, for rinse water
- Rag, soft & absorbent like t-shirt fabric
- Fine pointed round brushes no.0; no.1;