Course Overview
Celtic Zoomorphic Art is a style of Celtic Art that intertwines living beings (such as animals‚ birds, insects, and plants) with Celtic Knots and Spirals.
In this Celtic Zoomorphic Art class you will be taken step-by-step through the process of drawing, designing, and painting your own piece of Celtic Zoomorphic Art with Australian Animals.
Starting with how to draw your chosen animal, then designing and simplifying your drawing to a clean monoline design. From that point you will work through how to repeat this design, intertwining them together with Celtic knots and spirals.
To complete your piece ofCeltic Zoomorphic Art we will be applying colour using your favourite colour media which the teacher will demonstrate with paint and fine brushes.
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this course you will learn:
- How to draw an Australian Animal
- How to draw your animal with a clean outline
- How to create a stylised design of your animal
- How to draw your animal into an intertwined design
- How to draw your animal intertwined with Celtic knots
- How to draw your animal intertwined with Celtic spirals
- How to transfer your designs onto quality art paper.
- How to apply colour using your favourite media.
Course outcome
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Draw an Australian Animal
- Draw your animal with a clean outline
- Create a stylised design of your animal
- Draw your animal into an intertwined design.
- Draw your animal intertwined with Celtic knots.
- Draw your animal intertwined with Celtic spirals.
- Transfer your designs onto quality art paper.
- Apply colour using your favourite media.
What you need to know
Entry requirements
To be able to draw Celtic Knot Patterns and Celtic Spiral Patterns.
What you need to provide
Materials list for students:- 2B mechanical/pacer pencil
- Ruler, 30cm or longer
- Eraser
- Compass & Protractor
- 0.4 Pigment marker, eg. Artline marker
- A4 Sketch pad
- Graph/Grid paper with 5mm squares
- Colour media, what you have or prefer to use: colour pencils; pigment markers; other felt tip markers; OR
- Paints – water colours or watercolour gouache, acrylics.
- Empty jar, for rinse water
- Rag, soft & absorbent like t-shirt fabric
- Fine pointed round brushes no.0 & no.1