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Celtic Ivy Art & Ivy Symbolism

28/9/2020

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My Celtic Ivy art - plus I explore the ivy symbolism, stories, myth, meaning and folklore that's shaped the way we understand ivy today...
Celtic Ivy artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Ivy art by Lotti Brown
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The beautiful ivy is an ancient, native British plant and is far more than that shady creeper that’s often overlooked while it’s steadily colonising the quiet places...

Those walls, hedges, tree trunks that thrive with life while we’re looking the other way…

Like bramble ivy may not, strictly speaking, be considered a tree – but, like bramble, the ivy is part of the delicate ecosystem of trees – reaching into hedgerows, twining around trees to provide shelter and sustenance for animals, birds, and insects...
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Celtic Tree Calendar Ivy art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Tree Calendar version for the month of ivy - 30 September to 27 October
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And climbing walls and buildings where, far from common misconceptions, it actually seems to prove beneficial keeping buildings dry and warm in the winter and cool in the summer – and it’s certainly seen as very lucky to have ivy covering your home!

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Goole Museum Open Art 2020

24/9/2020

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As 2020 is proving to be an 'unprecedented' year (as everyone keeps saying), my artworks are going to be included in Goole Museum's very first Digital Open Art Exhibition which takes place from 1st September to 31st December 2020.

You can be part of this, too, by visiting the gallery in person (if you choose) to view the digital part of the exhibition on a slideshow within the gallery, or you can also see it on the museum's digital gallery page.

You will be able to see these two artworks which I've submitted to the Open Art exhibition, alongside lots more gorgeous artwork from very talented East Yorkshire artists...
'Humanity-Kindness' Celtic knotwork art
'Humanity-Kindness' - click to find out more about the artwork...
Celtic Fox art
'Celtic Fox' - click to find out more about the artwork...

Click here to view the Goole Open Art 2020 Digital Exhibition...
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Measuring Drawing Angles & Proportions

22/9/2020

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Learn how to easily measure drawing angles and proportions to help develop your drawing skills...

My best drawing techniques for beginner drawing and drawing from life - step-by-step guidance - follow along with me as we learn to draw together...
Learn to draw accurately - measure angles and draw correct proportions
Learn to draw accurately - measure angles and draw proportions correctly
In this earlier blog post, we looked for simple shapes in our drawing to get us started. This is a fantastic drawing technique that you can use when you’re drawing absolutely anything…

But not everything we want to draw is as simple as a single leaf and sometimes we need to use additional techniques to help us draw more complex things.

We’ll start looking at these here…

Have you ever seen artists holding a pen or pencil up at arm’s length when they’re drawing something?

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Celtic Greyhound Art & Greyhound Lover Gifts

15/9/2020

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Celtic greyhound knotwork art plus gifts for greyhound lovers, greyhound-design fabrics and loads more…
Celtic knotwork greyhound art and designs
Greyhound artworks - Celtic knotwork and art nouveau style
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I, myself, used to own a rescue greyhound and I still consider myself a greyhound lover, so I was keen to create a Celtic artwork and have a go at intertwining knotwork around those lovely long legs and tail. The greyhound is such an elegant dog that perfectly suits the Celtic knotwork style...

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Celtic Blackberry Art

1/9/2020

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Bramble Meaning & Symbolism

My Celtic Blackberry art, also with a Celtic Tree Calendar version, with prints, gifts & products available - alongside a look at bramble meaning, myth, and symbolism...
Celtic Blackberry artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Blackberry art by Lotti Brown
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The blackberry or bramble is one of our most common hedgerow plants, stretching its long, thorny strands across trees, bushes, flowers, and weeds alike...

And for thousands of years, it’s been an important food source for humans.

The common name for blackberry, ‘bramble’, comes from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘brom’ meaning ‘thorny shrub’...

And brings us numerous common names including:
  • bramblin
  • brammle
  • brimmle
  • brimble
  • and many more…

Celtic Tree Calendar art - Blackberry
Celtic Tree Calendar art - Blackberry - 2nd to 29th September
Celtic Tree Calendar Blackberry Art here

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