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My Celtic
Cross was the first "traditional" Celtic piece. I consider it one
of the "compulsory Celtic maneuvers" for any Celtic artist, but I
wanted to take a little license with the Celtic Cross to make it my own. My
Celtic Cross is constructed from a single, unbroken line that twists from
arm to side and then back into another arm. This is different from
traditional Celtic Crosses where the knot is contained within the confines
of the cross itself. Another difference is the "eternal ring"
which joins each Cross arm. This ring is usually delineated as strongly as
the Cross arms, but I chose to use a knot woven densely enough to suggest
the ring without actually drawing it. This "absence" of a line
combined with a dark color choice creates a unique "eternal ring"
that is in balance with the body of the Celtic Cross.
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My Three
Celtic Roses are one of my favorite pieces as a Celtic Artist. I wanted to
create a "tri-rose" design that would incorporate a modern rose within a Celtic knot. Interestingly, the original sketch did not look
like this because the knot simply terminated in three center swirls. This
created a structural error in the piece because a Celtic knot must weave
"under, over, under, over", and such a pattern is not divisible by
an odd number such as three. The result was an "over, over" or and
"under, under" until I wove the knot together to create the
chain-stitch pattern moving through the middle. Weaving the lines fixed the
structural flaw and added a nice depth to the center of my Three Celtic
Roses design.
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My Four
Celtic Dragonflies were my second custom piece, but in this case I drew them
for a lady who didn't know I was creating this Celtic Art for her. This is
my dear friend of many years whom I call "Kitty", but whose middle
eastern dancing persona is "Dragonfly". She is a true devotee of
middle eastern dance, having studied many forms of dance from many different
countries, and when I said one day "What should I draw?", my
beloved husband, Paul, said "How about dragonflies?"
The first
question was to draw three or four Celtic dragonflies, as this would effect
the layout of the design. Having decided on four Celtic Dragonflies because
I had not drawn a piece with a value of "four", I created a design
that uses a single, unbroken line to form both the dragonflies (excepting
the heads) and the background. This is another example of my Celtic fusion
style because A) insects weren't often used in traditional Celtic art and,
B) if the Celts were to picture a dragonfly they would have done so with a
proper zoomorphic where the insect was pictured with a twisting tail or
wings. With my Four Celtic Dragonflies, the Celtic knot creates the insects
themselves along with the background.
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