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Friday, March 11, 2011

"Two New ACEO's"

I have been busy working on celtic knotwork design exercises and finally decided it was time to do some ACEO's.  This first one is a variation on a design I learned through exercises in Sheila Sturrock's book, "Celtic Knotwork Designs" ......

In this next ACEO I have combined my love of drawing people with my love for celtic designs and come up with my version of "Irish Eyes Are Smiling". The inspiration for this came from a picture of a mountain man my husband was using for one of his projects. When I saw the picture I saw an Irishman in his kilt and holding his shillelagh (prounounced shih-LAY-lee), a far cry from a gruffy looking mountain man wouldn't you say! Anyway, that is the image I saw in my mind and drew.

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Happy Day!


4 comments:

IrelandBrady said...

Irish eyes are smiling on you ...

Marlene said...

very nice, I love Irish Eyes.

IrelandBrady said...

Thank you Marlene, I do too. I think I'm going to try a larger version of him at around 8"x10" .... will be able to get more detail into the drawing.

smellyrhinostudio said...

you are so good at these little characters! Nice work!

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