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MPFitzpatrick In reply to mladyjoy [2005-04-02 16:28:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! No, I don't use a grid. No patience for it. I take a foundation knot - the component that is repeated, and just freehand it over and over. It's like meditation. I discovered this way of working when I say one of Aidan Meehan's books which had a page of the "seven essential knots" which showed the knots in singular form. I'd had such a problem getting my head around knots before I saw that, but that one page showed me the knot as a single entity that could be repeated. Sometimes I use knots from that page, sometimes I make up my own, but I just set up the area that I'm going to work in, sort of mark out the spacing for each one, and just go to town freehand.

Sometimes I'll draw out one knot and use a lightbox to get the basic shapes down on the final art, but that's usually only if it's a particularly difficult knot, or one that needs to rotate, or a whole lot of them that need to be perfectly matched. (or if I'm in a time crunch).


You're over on WetCanvas, aren't you? I think I've spoken to you on one of the boards over there.

Michelle

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mladyjoy In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2005-04-02 19:03:22 +0000 UTC]

wow! thanks for the info! I have many boooks too on Celtic knots and designs... I am starting a class on Celtic Design a local artist teaches this next week, I am so very excited! !!!

I am on wetcanvas but I haven't been there in so long it seems... one can find themselves on the computer way too long and "knot" get any work done! sorry couldn't resist the pun! I was just there yesterday and tried to sign up but found out I already was! LOL!!!

I have sent a note to join the knotters group. I've never heard of the enchanted forest one...or do you mean Enchanted Artist? you are there too right? LOL! just called me confused...teehee...

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to mladyjoy [2005-04-02 23:23:19 +0000 UTC]

WEll, I AM on the Enchanted Artists forum,but the one in my sig is a little DA group here that has little monthly contests. I'm glad you're joining the knotters. I oly just found them myself on Friday!



Michelle

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mladyjoy In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2005-04-03 02:42:16 +0000 UTC]

wow! that's scary! LOL!!! but a good scary... seems Celtic is starting to rise ??
YEa, I looked around and found it too. Very nice! I couldn't join that one though, I haven't painted a fairy yet at all. sigh.... still trying to just develope my style at this point.

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to elegaer [2005-03-30 15:20:21 +0000 UTC]

Heh. And I plan to do more.

It's funny. I saw a link to your gallery yesterday and was trying to look at it, but it wasn't loading right. Worked fine this morning, though. I faved a couple of pieces. The firebirds are stunning!

Michelle

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elegaer In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2005-04-01 15:51:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I need to get a decent scan of Firebirds, then I can offer it as a print! My poor old scanner has forty fits if I try and scan Firebirds - its too big and the colours are a bit too intense!

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to elegaer [2005-04-01 16:46:57 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I am SO there with you on the scanner issue. I used to have to use my friend's little Cannon scanner, and it was a mess. If I scanned a big piece in sections, the sections wouldn't even match. The colors would be off from one section to the next.

I lucked out because my friends teamed together to get me an Epson Perfection for my birthday. The thing is an absolute dream to scan with.

Reds and yellows are just the worst to try to scan. Scanners hate them. So I can see how Firebirds might be an absolute nightmare to scan to correct colors.

Michelle

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elegaer In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2005-04-02 11:10:31 +0000 UTC]

Scanners really are the devil in disguise! You're really lucky to have found a good one. Mine is horrid, and it makes me spent at least 1/2 an hour in photoshop afterwards trying to restore the correct colours. I aspire (when I'm rich) to having an A3 scanner, it would make me life *so* much easier. Scanning Firebirds on an A4 scanner means I have to scan it in 6 sections and try and stitch it together. Imagine the bliss of just shoving the whole pic into the scanner and press "go"! But A3 scanners are so expensive ....

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to WrensHollow [2004-12-28 20:32:34 +0000 UTC]

That's probably why none of the color tests have worked well enough to proceed with. I figure some day the perfect color combination will strike me. Other than that I['m not worrying too much over it.

Actually, the "dragons" were supposed to be birds. I guess I went a little too nuts on the head feathers and stuff. They DO look kind of "dragony", now that you mention it. Hmmmm...

Michelle

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WrensHollow In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2004-12-29 01:23:58 +0000 UTC]

LOL Sorry about that - I didn't see the detail clearly until I looked at the larger version. They're...Quetzals! Yeah...that's the ticket! LOL

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to WrensHollow [2004-12-29 14:38:53 +0000 UTC]

I'll buy that!!!

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MPFitzpatrick In reply to MusicRocksGBV [2004-12-21 16:48:49 +0000 UTC]

I do plan to color it, it just may take me a while to get around to it. I've been having trouble deciding on a color scheme for it.

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MusicRocksGBV In reply to MPFitzpatrick [2004-12-21 17:20:09 +0000 UTC]

i can see why. it looks like it'd be difficult deciding some kind of color to go with each knot....
good luck and can't wait to see it!
yayness.

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