IM LOOKING FOR COMPLEX CELTIC KNOT DESIGNS

anybody? Ive got a thin book on celtic designs but they are kinda trite

Check out the images here. Is this what you're looking for? If not the knot (LOL!), give a more specific description of what you seek.


http://www.celtech.ca/info/images.html

Here's another batch of images that would be good for background use.

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/body_parts/body_adornment/tattoos/653679_celtic_knots.php?id=653679

Thank you, I tried to paste one up with a light gray on a white background. It looks neat.

The knot motifs of Celtic art (aka Lombardian, Frankish or Old-Nordic) are Byzantine-Islamic in derivation and thus involve very complicated patterns, suggested originally by acanthus leaf tendrils, which are disposed inorganically on the surfaces.

It is a prime Magian motif and is hostile to the pictorial and to the portrait.

It is pure ornamentation, which is absent from Rembrandt who dealt in space and light patterns and the living human being in time.

I don't know much about it though but what I do suggests that as a background to a portrait it may be incongruous and the moreso if the subjects are still alive.

I'm not arguing fm. I'm simply offering what bit I know about it which isn't much. It suggests that a serious art critic would see your proposed background as an affectation and an assertion of pretty simplicity in your subjects which some might think lacks integrity. (Such as anyone who has read Joyce, Shaw etc).

Warts and all is what a sound materialist wants. Not this quasi-religious stuff.

Hope that helps. If not- just forget it.

This site actually is a "living example" by itself.

farmerman, I have a dozen books with celtic knots, many of a complex nature, which I use as patterns for various scroll saw experimentation.

They look quite impressive when they are cut from wood and shaved down in the appropriate locations.

If my scanner worked I would post a few images from the magazines.

you can use my scanner