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ART CLASS The Celtic Knots Bilingual Section IES LLANERA

Celtic Knot Tutorial

Step One

Begin bydrawinga nine-part square as shown above. Use Pencil!!You're going to do lots of erasing, so don't make anything permanentyet...AND have arubber eraser on stand-by!

Step Two

In the four corner squares, rough in gently-rounded shapes with pointsaiming out towards the corners.It doesn't have to be perfect, but you should try to fill the grid space asmuch as possible. Once you finish that, move to your outside middlesquares and sketch in straight lines as shown.What you've just done, sets the backbone of your design. One part of it anyway. Moving on....

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ART CLASS The Celtic Knots Bilingual Section IES LLANERA

Step Three

Now you're going to add a bit more detail. Go to your corner squaresand mark out the interior edges of your design.Don't make them too skinny: this is a very simple design with aminimum of lines, so you want to fill out the space or it will look weird.Now go to your outside middle squares and mark out the inner andouter curves. Again, don't be skimpy and try to use a consistent widththroughout.

Step Four

Finish off the loops by connect the open dangling ends and unfinishedcurves with the next open sections in the design. Refer to the picture for reference. It can get tricky, so just take your time. Use gentle, simplestrokes to hook it all together.Looking nice, isn't it? You now have the first continuous loop finished.Let's go make your second loop.

Step Five

Draw straight lines in the outer, middle squares as shown in thepicture above. Add marks for innner and outer curves.Before moving on, draw dots in the centers of all four corners. Thesewill guide you and help you stay consistent when you drawn in therest of the lines.

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