Vanilla Zoomorphs

Aren't these funny?  I've been trying to figure out what my next design is going to be and this was a good exercise, seeing what they look like when they're not tied into knots.

Forest Interior

 

Here's a little woodland scene I drew.  Needless to say a color version is on the way, it may take me a while though.

Deer

Source photo. 

Here's a comparatively quick deer sketch I did.  I think deer are a good thing to learn to draw cause they're always nice to fit into landscapes.  I think there's a lot to be said for learning to draw things that can be added to make landscapes better.

And Another One! :)

 

Another Celtic Knot

 And another Celtic knot.  I'm about halfway towards having enough Celtic designs for another coloring book, so at the rate I'm going I should have enough designs for it in another five or six years.  But I'm hoping to speed up a bit.

The old Celtic knotwork coloring book is here by the way, so you'll have something to look through and color while you're waiting.

Kelp Mermaid

This one took me a while, beautiful though isn't it?
 

Three Snakes

 I did another Celtic Knot!  This one is loosely inspired by an M. C. Escher woodcut, (shown below), which happened to be the last design he did before he died.

 

I get all that from a big book of M. C. Escher’s artwork I’ve got called Impossible Worlds: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998629.Impossible_Worlds

You can see that I didn’t finish my work to quite as many iterations of infinity as Escher, and it doesn’t have quite the level of craftsmanship, but still I’m always pretty happy when I finish another knot!

Bird Berries

 Another Celtic Design! :)

Fish Hook Seashell

We often meet with insanity on the very road we take to avoid it.

Boy Chillin on a Floating Island

Sometimes you gotta just chill, y'know.  Thanks to stockmichelle: www.deviantart.com/stockmichel… for the use of this wonderful stock image: fav.me/d38jb76 ! :)

Domini Canis

St. Dominic is often pictured, or sculpted, with a dog beside him with a flaming torch in its mouth. This derives from the tradition that before his birth his mother had a dream where a dog leapt from her womb carrying a burning torch in its mouth and set the world on fire.

What it means of course is setting the world on fire with the Holy Spirit, which Saint Dominic certainly did with his preaching, and writing, and founding the Dominicans, who continue to be awesome like that.

This is my attempt at a Celtic version of this popular motif.  Of course I’m absurdly happy with it.  :D

The dog’s pose and leg tangle are from the Book of Kells originally, although I was looking at it on page 113 of George Bain’s excellent Celtic Art The Methods of Construction.

I hope you like it and would like to wish you all a happy 4th of July!     (whether you celebrate that sort of thing or not), and if you celebrate with fireworks, please don't set too much of the world on actual fire!  :)

Doggie Corner

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Another Knot

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New Artwork

Bird And Reptile from my DeviantArt

Another knot, finally.  One of my first designs combining different kinds of zoomorphs, I hope to do more in the future.