Course Overview
This course combines the use of Celtic knot patterns and drawings of plants to create interconnected Celtic designs.
Learn to draw your own Celtic Tree of Life design with step-by-step guidance using simple drawing techniques. We start with a refresher on Celtic Knots and Celtic knot border patterns. To create other plant patterns you will be shown how to ‘grow’ leaves and flowers from Celtic knots. Start looking now at how plants grow, draw some simple leaf shapes and bring them to class.
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:
- How to draw a basic tree shape
- How to draw Celtic Knots ‘growing’ from a tree shape
- How to draw Celtic spirals ‘growing’ from a tree shape
- How to draw leaves and flowers ‘growing’ from a Celtic knot pattern
- How to apply colour in your favourite media
Course outcome
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Draw a basic tree shape
- Draw Celtic Knots ‘growing’ from a tree shape
- Draw Celtic spirals ‘growing’ from a tree shape
- Draw leaves and flowers ‘growing’ from a Celtic knot pattern
- Outline and tidy your designs
- Apply colour to your Celtic designs
- Design your own Celtic artworks combining spirals, knot patterns and plants into one pattern
What you need to know
Entry requirements
- To do this course it is preferable that you know how to draw Celtic Knots using a diamond dot grid method, as taught in my previous classes.
- Ability to mark of measurements with a ruler
- Ability to use a compass & protractor
What you need to provide
Materials list for students:- 2B mechanical/pacer pencil
- Ruler, 30cm or longer
- Eraser
- Compass
- 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