My Celtic Art Project
This is my contribution to my “Who are the Celts’ course at Oxford Department for Continuing Education, week 5 ‘Celtic Art’ (2017). At the end of a demanding study week the participants were challenged to make their own Celtic art, a drawing, woodwork, or poem, whatever your prefer.
I managed to finish my Celtic Art project within a fortnight because it was a lot of drawing. Strangely enough, I was always in awe when I saw Celtic art but I was never challenged or commissioned to make Celtic art. I had to remove my anxiety for too much rigid mathematical organization (the patterns and swirls) and focus on the hidden mythology, faces and animals. Although I love Celtic art, I have always feel resistance to make it as it seems to limit artistic expression to its theme as the patterns are strictly organized and repetitive. The article on the enchantment of technology inspired me too to embrace a geometrical challenge for making Celtic patterns. Anyway, I am not going to say: ‘I did it’, but I enjoyed the challenge!
Used: Golden/Silver ink-pens, an ordinary Bic blue pen, art paper, a protector and many rulers.
Note: preliminary sketches trying out mathematical organization, a large original drawing, a print & a small postcard. I printed the title of this artwork with a Celtic letter type:
Golden with Silver & Lapis Lazuli Celtic Plate
with Boar, Hidden Face & Swans
© by Paula Kuitenbrouwer
Enjoy!
Paula
Beautiful!!! Wonderful you are learning about and creating Celtic art. I enjoyed seeing Irish art at the National Museum of Ireland Treasury.
The Celtic Art modulle in my study was without doubt my most favourite subject. I didn’t want it to stop!
Erg mooi, Paula! Ik vind het Celtic lettertype er ook mooi bij passen.
Dank je, Judy. Ik moest eerst een Keltisch letter type downloaden. Ik had daarin zelfs nog keuzes. Het was een erg leuk project dat exacte, wiskundige vaardigheden combineerde met ‘story telling’ kwaliteiten. Dit is zeker niet mijn laatste ‘Keltische’ tekening.
How beautiful, Paula! I love these.
Thank you, Luanne! It was a huge pleasure to study and explore Celtic art.
Are you not on Twitter? I thought you were.
I had a Twitter account but deleted it. But maybe it is still there. It is said you can’t delete social media accounts.