Irish Illumination: Then and Now

I'm generally liking the Celtic art. I love the long, curving, organic shapes, the big line spacing between lines of text, the use of earthy tones, and the interesting division of space in various pictures. I don't know how I feel about the excessive use of pattern, but that is something that a lot of people at the time seemed to do.

 

The shape that this makes is awesome, but it is extremely patterned as well.

 

This is a cool design, has shading, pretty wavy lines, and texture on the wing. Plus the line draws your eye to the bellybutton. Perfect.

This is cool, because it combines the use of line and pattern, but keeps it from getting cluttered by adding some negative space instead of stuffing more pattern in between.