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Celtic Knotwork Art - Humanity & Kindness

21/7/2020

Celtic knotwork art - Humanity & Kindness...

Celtic knotwork art - Humanity - Kindness - Patience - Together

I created this colourful Celtic knotwork design on the theme of humanity and kindness and based on a traditional Celtic knotwork design -

I actually created it in the first weeks of lockdown (late-March 2020) for a book on kindness, 'Be Kind' by Tecassia Publishing - thinking about how we're all interconnected across the whole world and how we need to cultivate our kindness and patience towards each other so that we can all live together effectively, especially in those most difficult moments when we sometimes feel anything but patient and kind...

If anything, with the recent prominence in racial injustices coming to the forefront of our collective awareness, the artwork seems even more pertinent...

For me, the intertwining of the Celtic knotwork symbolises our interwoven lives - and the choice of a Celtic theme, whilst it's what I love to draw, emphasises even more that we're all joined in common humanity.

Whilst in the modern world, the Celtic style art seems to focus on British and Irish heritage, in its origin it's more diverse, spanning Europe - and with links back to an earlier Proto-Indo-European culture crossing continents.

The more that I explore Celtic legends, myths, stories, and folklore, the more struck I am by similarities in our earliest legends and myths, across the whole world, that seem to bring us all together as humans while providing joyous diversity through our cultural differences to our common human experience.

We're all interconnected and we must open our hearts with compassion, and summon the courage to face our mistakes - I don't pretend have the answers to our difficulties, but I do know that there is still so much for us all to learn and to put into action in order to be able to live together as equals - with respect, kindness, patience, and tolerance to create the fairer society we all need.

Here's how I created the artwork digitally from my drawings...

Creating the knotwork design based on a traditional Celtic pattern

Planning the Celtic knotwork designs for the border

Planning the border knotwork designs

Drawing the Celtic knotwork borders neatly

Drawing out the Celtic knotwork borders neatly

Drawing my Celtic knotwork 'Humanity' design neatly

Drawing out my Celtic knotwork 'Humanity' design neatly

I scan the drawings and work with them in Adobe Illustrator on scree

The drawings are all scanned into the computer and then imported into Adobe Illustrator where I start to put them together on screen

I create a background colour for my design

I create a coloured background for my design using a scan of hand-painted fabric

Starting to tweak the colours digitally for a bit more 'oomph'!

Lettering drawn in pen and added digitally

Lettering added - drawn in pen and added digitally again

Final colour tweaks and different corner-pieces added

The completed Celtic knotwork Humanity and Kindness design

The completed Celtic knotwork design - Humanity & Kindness

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