Course Overview
Celtic Zoomorphic Art is a distinctive style that weaves living forms—such as animals, birds, insects, and plants—into traditional Celtic knots and spirals.
In this course, you will be guided step by step through the process of drawing, designing, and painting your own piece of Celtic Zoomorphic Art featuring birds. You will begin by learning how to draw your chosen bird, then refine and simplify the image into a clean, elegant monoline design. From there, you will explore how to repeat and interlace your design, intertwining it with Celtic knots and spirals to create a cohesive composition.
To complete your artwork, you will apply colour using your preferred colour media. The teacher will demonstrate painting techniques using fine brushes to help you achieve a polished finish.
This course is best suited to students who already have a basic understanding and some experience in drawing Celtic knots and spirals.
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 bird
- How to draw your bird with a clean outline.
- How to create a stylised design of your bird.
- How to draw your bird into an intertwined design.
- How to draw your birds intertwined with Celtic knots.
- How to draw your birds intertwined with Celtic spirals.
- How to transfer your designs onto quality art paper.
- How to apply colour using your favourite media.
Course outcome
By the end of this course you will be able to:
By the end of this course, you will be able to draw a bird with a clean, confident outline, develop it into a stylised design, and incorporate it into an intertwined composition.You will learn how to interlace your bird designs with Celtic knots and spirals, transfer your finished designs onto quality art paper, and apply colour using your favourite artistic media.
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