Course Overview
Celtic Art Motifs & Calligraphy for Christmas is a short course packed with everything you need to design your own Celtic Christmas. From Christmas cards to hand-made Christmas gifts you will wow your friends and family.
Marta will take you step-by-step through drawing Christmas bells with Celtic art patterns and how to draw snowflakes with Celtic knots.
You will learn traditional Celtic art patterns, including: Celtic Knots, Key Patterns and Step Patterns.
Then picking up the double pencils and a few key Christmas words, you will learn some calligraphy techniques to design your letters and write these words.
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 triskele knots in a six segmented design
- Draw Celtic key patterns using a diamond dot grid
- Draw Celtic step patterns using a 5mm grid paper
- Draw Celtic step patterns in a border
- Draw & design a Celtic bell using 3 Celtic art patterns
- Outline your designs using a pigment marker.
- Transfer your designs onto quality art paper
- Apply colour using your favourite media
- Write words using double pencils
- Set up your design to print cards
- Present your art for a gift
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; OR;
- 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