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This is the cover design for my book "Celtic Knotwork Borders in Repeating Sections". there's actually a lot of information about the book itself right here - [link] - so I won't clutter up this description with too much of that. Briefly, it's a collection of original knotwork patterns broken up into their essential parts, in various sizes, and including arc sections for circular borders.

One of the unusual things about it is that all the patterns were created digitally from start to finish. Thats unusual for me, anyway - I've almost always worked out repeating borders on paper first. So this book is more than one kind of milestone for me.

The book's a clip art or pattern book resource - so unlike my other work, readers are free to incorporate the borders into their own work. I think a digital version of this would be pretty great but I don't have a timetable on that, or on Volume 2, yet.

Anyway, I've used a couple of those patterns in the cover, and you can see how in about half the patterns I've included inner border designs that branch from the main rectangular borders. This is a neat way to subdivide a frame horizontally, or vertically, or both.

I assembled the black-and-white line art for the cover and set that layer to "Multiply" blending mode, so it'd just darken whatever was underneath. Then I did the color work in layers below that one - pretty much like my "Tanglewood" Deviation, which started as an ink drawing - and that's a way of working that I'm enjoying at the moment. I'm getting a slightly different style out of it that reminds me of tinted ink drawings.
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~madnessmountains Dec 5, 2012
Omg so many ahh
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Mood: Delighted ~bertw63 Aug 19, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
WOW!!! what a cover! I'm sure the inside holds much more. Might get this one!
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~tillbacka Apr 23, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
I think I will buy that book... :)
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~Justpowelly Dec 26, 2010
It's a nice cover, read the blurb and might get the book. I just wonder is the book limited to only borders? or does it also cover abstract shapes.
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*Peter-The-Knotter Oct 26, 2010  Student Artisan Crafter
Excellent
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Mood: Joy !converjynx Jan 12, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
great
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`lady-atropos Oct 30, 2009
I need to get a copy of this as gift for my hubby.
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*IrishArtiste Apr 11, 2009  Professional General Artist
I'd buy a copy =D
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~andersonbi Jan 10, 2009  Professional General Artist
thanks - I just purchased your book - can't wait to see what all it holds!
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~ou8nrtist2 Oct 6, 2008
Finally ,
some competition for Courtney Davis...
God I'm sick of his boring patterns.LOL
Your work looks great,I may have to get this book,
but I'm a nut for "Early La Tene" Celtic border patterns Circa 5th century BC.(before the Christian dilution). So if you ever make a book of those patterns,I'd go nuts for it. (350 ornamented bronze sword hilts with iron swords from the warriors burial ground at La Tene)with a different pattern on every one...Many of which are in the British Museum.
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