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Published: 2009-06-05 10:10:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 29086; Favourites: 793; Downloads: 760
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Kind of, sort of tutorial. It's more walk-through my painting process. I hope it will be useful to you.For constructing the knotworks - as I'm still learning that, I really don't feel entitled to give advice about it. Anyway, if you're interested in this art, I can recommend you two great books - Celtic art: Method of construction by George Bain nad Celtic knotwork by his son Ian Bain. The first book has more intuitive approach, although it's not always easy to understand. The second one is more technical, yet very systematic and comprehensible.
Finished picture can be found here: [link]
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Great tutorial - thank you so much for taking so much time and effort to show your process.
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No problem, it was fun to write it.
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I think this is a very good and useful tutorial especially for those who have't used watercolors often before 
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Terrific....I'll get started right away!!! LOL
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Awesome tutorial! Very clear, I see now how many layers you use to achieve dark tones! I am so impatient, and always wondered how you could achieve those dark colours in watercolours...
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
I'm also impatient, I'm literally in anguish when I have to wait for the layer of colour to dry... but it pays off
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Great tutorial!!! I hope I will suck less after trying a simple knot with your technique. Thanks anyway for sharing.
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oh my god, so beautiful, you must be a watercolor genius. I always try to paint in watercolor, but it's no use, I don't really know how to use it so I end up sticking with color pencils. Well done
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I'm by no means genius, as you can see, I managed to screw the first attempt 
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This is a very usefull tutorial! Maybe I'll learn how to paint water drops finally
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You've coined a new word! Paintience. a combination of the word paint and the word patience, which is exactly what we painters need.
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Ah, probably a typo - interesting one, though
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Skvelý a pre mna velmi užitočný tutorial-vážne
Už rok naberám odvahu, že niečo plácnem na papier s akvarelom-ale stale som nevedela, aké techniky použit- diky mockrát
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Není zač
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...ale tak dufam, že sa mi to v blizkej dobe zadarí......
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Skvelý a pre mna velmi užitočný tutorial-vážne
Už rok naberám odvahu, že niečo plácnem na papier s akvarelom-ale stale som nevedela, aké techniky použit- diky mockrát
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Mno po dlouhé době jsem se rozhodla, že taky zkusím něco splácat touhle technikou, tak jsem mrkla na tvůj tutoriál abych si to oživila. A když jsem si pak přečetla kolik tam dáváš vrstev... No fíha, jak dlouho ti konkrétně tenhle obrázek asi trval? Taky bych tohle chtěla vidět naživo, jsem ve všech technikách více-méně samouk a ráda bych se přiučila.
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Jé, to už si vážně nepamatuju
Ono na akvarelu netrvá ani tak dlouho něco namalovat, ale čekat potom, až to uschne. Jinak samozřejmě tohle není jediný způsob, jak malovat akvarelem, spíš bych řekla, že většina lidí používá těch vrstev výrazně míň
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Mně se právě tenhle tvůj styl líbí. Vypadá to ůžasně propracovaně a přitom je to tradiční technika.
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Aha, to mě těší
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amazing tutorial. it was very helpfull!!
the one part im not understanding well is the tracing your pencil sketch. how do you do that? because the watercolor paper is glued to prevent curling up, right?
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Glued? You mean like with other papers, together? I have single sheets, but it doesn't matter. I make a sketch on a regular printing paper. I reverse it, scribble with a soft pencil on this side so the sketch on the other side is "covered" by this scribbling - then reverse it again, put it on watercolour paper (the sketch is on top and the scribbled side of paper lies on the watercolour paper). Ten I re-trace the sketch.
Of course, this is optional, it just way of work I came along
I hope it's understandable now. I really tried my best to explain the process
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i think i know what you mean. does it work? 
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Well, I use it pretty regularly, so for me it does
When I make a sketch, I have to have it very precise, and I erase a lot - which would destroy my watercolour paper. So it's pretty useful for me to have a sketch aside like this.
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i really hope this techniqye works for me! i think the sketching part is the most important and the most difficult. i erase alot too and it just really ruins the paper
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I'm just starting with watercolors and this tutorial helped me understand the reasons behind every wash... I'm nos used to lay wash after wash, so this means a lot.. Thanks! and sorry 'bout my crappy english
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I'm glad it's proven useful to you
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ahh so you do paint in layers 
but this is a really neat tutorial and is very straight forward, at least for me 
Maybe i will practice more using this tutorial 
i dislike it when that's happened, i though i rarely ever throw away anything i messed up when its almost finished XD
the second one still came out quite nice but i noticed you left out a green gem near the tail 
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Yup. I do. In many layers
I'm glad the tutorial seems useful to you.
I don't like to create something that isn't as good as it might to be, even if I have to rework the whole thing from beginning. I'm weird that way
Yup, I left it out - I just forget. I added some more stones into the actual knotwork, though.
Np.
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Thank you 
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Thank you for sharing the tips. Tried my hands on some of them here [link] and enjoyed it very much
I bought the masking fluid at the end, by the way - found out I'm simply not good enough yet to draw the background freely without covering the stones and the pendant. Well, I'm a beginner. I need all help I can get
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Well, that's what masking fluid is for
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