Tomorrow an evening of Celtic entertainment takes over the National Museum of Scotland.
With live music, Celtic inspired DJ sets, silent discos and even a silent ceilidh the evening should be a huge success. There will be food and drink served in the main hall and creative activities including facepainting and temporary tattoos on ffer around the museum.
I will be there with a couple of tables offering Celtic creativity in the form of either designing your own Celtic pictures to colour in, or try sketching some of the exhibits from the Celts exhibition, which runs until the 25th September.
Above is my coloured in Celtic design, and below part of the process. Find me on Friday night to make your own Celtic symbol design.
Buy your ticket to Museum Lates: Celts at the NMS website.
Tomorrow, the 10th March sees the arrival of the eagerly anticipated ‘Celts’ exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
This major exhibition, their first of 2016 spans more than 2, 500 years and unravels the story of those who have used or been given the name ‘Celts’ through the extraordinary art objects they made and used.
The piece I have sketched using cross hatching and shading techniques is a grey sandstone slab from Monifieth in Angus Scotland. Probably carved in the 9th century it is decorated with a cross carved in relief and filled with interlace and spiral patterns.
I’m looking forward to seeing this and around 300 other treasured objects from across the UK and Europe, assembled together in Scotland for the first time in this fascinating exhibition.
Find out more at the NMS website below.
This sketch is drawn in black fine liner, drawn free hand with no pencil.
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Tomorrow an evening of Celtic entertainment takes over the National Museum of Scotland.
