Like shooting fish in a barrel How to Draw a Celtic Knot Tutorial and Celtic Knot Coloring Folio

Learn how to draw a Celtic Knot, starting with one of the simpler ones. Conscientious drawing and erasing will make this look like an endless loop.

This How to Draw a Celtic Knot tutorial volition show students how the Trinity Celtic knot is fabricated. It'southward one probably one of the nigh popular of all the many Celtic knots that are effectually. The three petal shapes are pretty elementary, they just need to be drawn advisedly, and then all the loops are the same size and shape, and then erased in some strategic places to brand the loop look similar it's space.

What is a Celtic knot? Basically they are knots that make complete loops with no start or finish. They are said to represent eternity, which could be interpreted as loyalty, faith, friendship and love.

Teachers that are looking for some connections to the Elements of Art, could note that LINES in this knot are used strategically to create a continuous SHAPE. And when a darker VALUE of the color is added along some lines, the knot appears to no longer be apartment, but to have some dimensional FORM. Pretty cool, huh?

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Celtic Knot Coloring Page

Materials for Celtic Knot Projection

  • Eraser. Large ones you tin can agree in your paw practise a much amend job than merely the pencil tips.
  • Blackness Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make squeamish black outlines, have a practiced tip for coloring, and never bleed when they become moisture. Use them with practiced ventilation and add actress paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a scrap softer than other crayons so they sometimes await like oil pastels. They also have a some prissy brown shades that Crayola does not take unless you purchase their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a flake richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Step by Step Directions for Celtic Knot Projection

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Draw a Celtic Knot

  1. Fold a square paper to make the guides. Depict a center petal shape.

  2. Draw a similar size and shape petal attached to the right.

  3. Add a similar size and shape petal fastened to the left.

  4. Depict the inside edge of the center petal.

  5. Connect an within border to the correct petal.

  6. Add inside edge to the left petal.

  7. Erase the pair of the gray lines.

  8. Erase 2 more pairs of the greyness lines.

  9. Trace with a mark and color. Add a darker color as shown.

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