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    Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design
    Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design
    Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design
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    Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design

    By Cari Buziak

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    "The complex designs can be confusing, but I love how this book makes it simple to follow. The author offers two innovative — and very simple — approaches to designing unique celtic knot designs that make it easy enough for (almost) anyone to create their own." — Daily Greet
    Whether you're a complete beginner or have already attempted to learn the art of Celtic knotwork, this is the book for you! Artists at all levels will treasure this guide, which not only demonstrates how to duplicate patterns from a rich and varied gallery of examples but also how to take the next step to creating your own unique designs.
    This newly revised edition of Creating Celtic Knotwork features a wealth of added material and revisions. Author Cari Buziak draws upon her extensive teaching experience to present easy-to-understand, well-illustrated instructions that explain all the basic techniques of Celtic patterns as well as the art's meaning and history. In addition to spirals, mazes, and step patterns, the designs include dragons, hounds, and other animals as well as human forms. Exercises and tips encourage experimentation that will allow you to develop your own variations on traditional forms. Information on drawing tools, painting materials, transferring patterns, and other practical aspects will help you get started right away.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9780486827391
    Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design

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      Creating Celtic Knotwork - Cari Buziak

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2018 by Cari Buziak

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      Creating Celtic Knotwork: A Fresh Approach to Traditional Design is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2018.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Buziak, Cari, author.

      Title: Creating Celtic knotwork : a fresh approach to traditional design / Cari Buziak.

      Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2018]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017034178| ISBN 9780486820330 | ISBN 0486820335

      Subjects: LCSH: Knotwork, Celtic. | Drawing—Technique.

      Classification: LCC NK1264 .B89 2018 | DDC 746.44028—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034178

      Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

      82033501 2017

      www.doverpublications.com

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This book is dedicated to my dad and my sister.

      I love you both very much!

      Contents

      The Basics

      Getting Ready

      Basic Celtic Knotwork

      Modifying The Basic Knot

      Knotting Variations

      Exercises

      The Trefoil Knot

      Borders & Corners

      Borders

      Corners

      Knotting in a Ring

      Crosses

      The Celtic Cross

      The Ringed Cross

      Spirals

      Double Spirals

      Triple Spirals

      Joining Spirals

      Maze & Step Patterns

      Maze Patterns

      Step Patterns

      Zoomorphics

      Snakes and Dragons

      Snake To Dragon Transformation

      Turning a Knot into a Dragon

      Celtic Animals

      The Celtic hound

      The Celtic lion

      The Celtic Bird

      Celtic People

      Celtic Man

      Celtic Woman

      Hairstyles & Beards

      Vine & Chalice

      Techniques & Materials

      Transferring a Design

      Pen and Ink

      Acrylics

      Watercolors

      Paper

      Biography

      Dot Paper

      Dot Paper: ring style

      Getting Ready.

      To create Celtic knots I use a technique that’s based on a gridwork of alternating big and small dots. The dots create a pattern that allows you to make new knotwork designs easily and even in shapes other than just rectangles or squares, as you’ll see later in this and other chapters. This book includes a few sheets of ready-made dot paper for you, but to create your own is easy.

      Photocopy the sheets in the back of this book before you begin working. That way you’ll always have a master page to copy from and won’t have to make dotted paper again for each project!

      Normal graph paper is made up of a series of squares all over the page. You can sometimes purchase it with bigger or smaller squares, depending on the size of knot you want to create. If only one size is available it can be scaled up or down using a photocopier, or made from scratch at any size using a computer.

      Using different-colored markers or a pen, alternate coloring one big dot, followed by a smaller dot, all across the page of graph paper. Make sure that as you move down to the next row you continue to alternate the dots. If there is a big dot above in the previous row, then below it there should be a small dot, and so on. Once the whole sheet is covered, make a photocopy before using it—that way you won’t have to make it again next time.

      Basic Celtic Knotwork

      For clarity, in my examples I will display only the big and small dots and not the graph paper lines.

      To make your first knot, mark off a box anywhere on the sheet, at least 5 big dots and 4 little dots across. Mark the same distance down (5 big and 4 little dots) so you have an even square. For the dot system to work properly, make sure box corners are always on a BIG dot.

      Each small dot is going to be an intersection where two ropes of knots are going to cross over each other. Begin to add a double-lined X over the little dots within the marked-off box, with each set of the X lines running to either side of the little dot like a tic-tac-toe board tipped on its side.

      Continue drawing a double-lined X over each little dot until reaching the box border. Do not X the little dots that lie right on the border line, just those that fall within the border. Your big dots never get crossed over by the knot. Think of the big dots as posts that the knot must bend around to follow its path. You will find that the X patterns will meet up on the diagonal, which is correct. If you’re making a very large knot, you can make this step go faster by using a ruler and just drawing a line along the diagonal of the little dots. However, when you begin to make very complicated knots, the X method keeps things from getting tangled up because it’s easier to see clearly what’s going on as you proceed.

      At this point,

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