A fantastic book for artists and crafters looking for original, fresh designs and ideas.
This treasury of Celtic line art includes 100 designs inspired by the knotwork, spirals, patterns, stylistic figures and animals found in ancient Celtic art. The designs can be scanned, enlarged, reduced, or used same size, and they can be adapted, or mixed and matched with other images, allowing you to develop your own projects in innovative ways. Whether you are seeking inspiration for a new piece of work, researching an idea, or looking for different ways to approach a project, this book is rich source of imagery, with beautiful illustrations on every page. All of the designs are included in high-resolution Jpeg format on a free CD.
100 specially commissioned designs in a neat square format
Table of Contents 100 specially commissioned designs in a neat square format
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About Penny Brown
Penny Brown is a highly-experienced illustrator and a prize winning botanical artist who works in a variety of media to capture the beauty and complexity of the natural world. She exhibits her botanical paintings and drawings with The Society of Botanical Artists (SBA) in London, Frankfurt and Spain.
Her work has appeared in close to one hundred books, and she has won several awards, including the prestigious President’s Prize at the SBA exhibition. She is also a member of The South West Society of Botanical Artists. Penny's previous titles for Search Press, Botanical Drawing and Draw 100 Flowers have sold over 30,000 copies in total.
Visit her website: www.pennybrownillustrations.com
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Oct 12
Here is the third book in Search Press new Design Library. Remember their bestselling Design Source Library series? This takes the idea into the 21st century with each title containing a hundred motifs in print plus a CD ROM with them all in both .jpeg and .tiff format. The first page has a brief introduction to what lies within, and the rest of the book contains just the designs themselves. Each page features a line drawing or two and in this book you can find borders,corners and motifs depicting fabulous beasts, intricate knotwork, spirals and more. Designs are taken from the British Isles and continental Europe from the Iron Age La Tene style onwards to the Middle Ages. You can find designs taken from the Book of Kells, from stone carvings, Viking motifs and more are in here for a wide variety of art and craft projects. As with the earlier Design Source Books these are not copyright free, but the small print at the back permits you to use up to fifteen of the drawings on a single project as long as you give a quote as to where they came from. What projects you use them on it up to you; scale them up or down and use them for whatever you want. I look forward to seeing the rest of the titles in this series and enjoy not having to scan them into my computer to use them like I did with the earlier series!
