Knotwork is a “state of mind” sort of art for me, so it’s not uncommon to have two or three quite different works going at the same time. I’m not feeling the “Love and Light” today so I started a new circular knot (it might end up a triskele but I’m not sure of that yet).

For a square knot (or a rectangle based on squares), I can usually skip building the underlying grid because Photoshop has a grid-structure overlay, but there’s no such thing for grids based on circles.

I usually go for “photo blue” for grid lines in these pieces because of my background in traditional print. This shade of blue is not visible to the cameras that are used to make film for press plates, so back in the day the grids on the paper we used to layout pages, and the pencils we used to make notations, were this shade of blue. It’s stuck with me as connoting “grid I will build on.”

With subdivided threads marked.

This is the rough first pass on the knotwork I’m currently working on: the threads are plotted out and space left for illustrations. I’m not entirely positive what images I’ll use in the windows. Brighid and Lugh perhaps, though I didn’t weave any devotions into this one so I might go with something simpler. I may subdivide some of these threads as well, particularly around the windows.