This is a digitally colored version of an ink drawing I did way back in 1985. I've tried a couple of color treatments over the years, but till now I hadn't managed anything that I really liked. I do really like this one.

It's softer than most of my recent digital knotwork, and it reminds me of my very early watercolor paintings - when I was really tinting drawings. The colors in those watercolors gradually grew stronger until I often omitted the inks altogether. So this piece resembles some of the paintings I did in the early 80's, while I was making that transition.

I picked this piece to do as part of a project I've just completed. The outer knotwork border uses a pattern I created as part of my new book of Celtic art designs, and this painting is one of the cover designs I'm using on blank books - with Celtic borders on all the pages, and either lined or unlined pages.

The blank books and the Celtic knotwork pattern book are here: [link] - and the pretty cool unlined blank book with this cover is here: [link]