When I was a little kid, my grandmother gave me a little gold charm of a cross, an anchor, and a heart. They stand for faith, hope and charity. The trinity of this has always resonated with me, and ever since then, I've loved finding the importance of threes. So many things in the human experience seem to be held together in threes; body-mind-spirit, maiden-mother-crone, father-son-holy spirit, love-honor-protect, I could go on and on. I was looking for viking representations of the three, and came across these celtic representations. 

I textured the spiral one before I baked it, and brushed on some dark pastel to give the piece depth. I sealed both with a polyacrylic.