Mallah
Sept 20 2013 update: The whole thing is now visible on my website:
http://halweeks.com/wickwillow/ (where it is also linked up for sale at the Game Crafters)
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Hello everybody. I was on here quite a bit last spring, sharing the cards that I was working on (under a different title). I got sort of shanghai-ed in the project and needed to think about it. I also worked hard on putting out a Native American Flute CD, which is behind me now, so I have returned in the past 10 days or so to working on these. With a difference.
20 some years ago I did my first tarot deck...which was for my purposes only, and it sort of emulated a "stained glass" style. I return to that now, with my art skills much advanced.
Last spring, I had sort of forgotten the stained glass paradigm, though...and so the cards have be redone, with that in mind.
There is some variance in how I approach the stained glass idea, however. For example, in some cases the entire card, including the central character, is done up to look like it's rendered in glass. In other cases, the character might be in FRONT of a stained glass background. In some cases, the whole card looks like a painting on glass that has been cut up and grouted. Sometimes the glass is more "contempo" than others...just depending on the feel I want the card to have.
It's my intention to start posting these one by one here, and documenting my thoughts on each card, and as I catch up to where I am in the creation of the images (I'm currently doing the majors, and I'm up thru #8 with a few after that having been designed but not fully rendered) I'll be sharing my thoughts about what MIGHT go into the cards...all in hopes of your thoughts, criticisms and feedback.
My intention is to seek a publisher...I'd much rather go that route than to try to put out this baby myself.
I have some different ideas for the deck as far as the minors go. I personally prefer non-scenic minors...and yet have LOTS of experience with scenic ones as well. I am thinking of offering both...sort of a "Tarot System" where the deck is customizable to the reader's wishes...by offering "booster paks" sort of like kids trading cards. I can see several ways of this working. Further, if I come up with alternative images for some of the cards, i could offer those in limited collector's editions... So scenic and non scenic will eventually be available.
Right now, of course the focus is on the Majors.
By way of introduction, meet my FOOL. (attached).
This fool is so intent on the dog, he's not aware of the immanent disaster that is about to occur. He's obviously TdM inspired...not that that will carry thru the whole deck as you will see as I post more cards...one thing I like about the TdM image is he's the "Low Fool". I like both the LOW Fool meanings and the HIGH fool meanings. I'm excited to begin posting these...I'll probably do a couple a day for the next few days. Right now i'm working on the hermit. The cards will be unnumbered so if you prefer, say Justice at 11 (I prefer 8) you can just put her there! Some of my cards depart from standard imagery, some stick fairly close. Please feel free to comment, I'm looking forward to it.
Mallah
http://halweeks.com/wickwillow/ (where it is also linked up for sale at the Game Crafters)
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Hello everybody. I was on here quite a bit last spring, sharing the cards that I was working on (under a different title). I got sort of shanghai-ed in the project and needed to think about it. I also worked hard on putting out a Native American Flute CD, which is behind me now, so I have returned in the past 10 days or so to working on these. With a difference.
20 some years ago I did my first tarot deck...which was for my purposes only, and it sort of emulated a "stained glass" style. I return to that now, with my art skills much advanced.
Last spring, I had sort of forgotten the stained glass paradigm, though...and so the cards have be redone, with that in mind.
There is some variance in how I approach the stained glass idea, however. For example, in some cases the entire card, including the central character, is done up to look like it's rendered in glass. In other cases, the character might be in FRONT of a stained glass background. In some cases, the whole card looks like a painting on glass that has been cut up and grouted. Sometimes the glass is more "contempo" than others...just depending on the feel I want the card to have.
It's my intention to start posting these one by one here, and documenting my thoughts on each card, and as I catch up to where I am in the creation of the images (I'm currently doing the majors, and I'm up thru #8 with a few after that having been designed but not fully rendered) I'll be sharing my thoughts about what MIGHT go into the cards...all in hopes of your thoughts, criticisms and feedback.
My intention is to seek a publisher...I'd much rather go that route than to try to put out this baby myself.
I have some different ideas for the deck as far as the minors go. I personally prefer non-scenic minors...and yet have LOTS of experience with scenic ones as well. I am thinking of offering both...sort of a "Tarot System" where the deck is customizable to the reader's wishes...by offering "booster paks" sort of like kids trading cards. I can see several ways of this working. Further, if I come up with alternative images for some of the cards, i could offer those in limited collector's editions... So scenic and non scenic will eventually be available.
Right now, of course the focus is on the Majors.
By way of introduction, meet my FOOL. (attached).
This fool is so intent on the dog, he's not aware of the immanent disaster that is about to occur. He's obviously TdM inspired...not that that will carry thru the whole deck as you will see as I post more cards...one thing I like about the TdM image is he's the "Low Fool". I like both the LOW Fool meanings and the HIGH fool meanings. I'm excited to begin posting these...I'll probably do a couple a day for the next few days. Right now i'm working on the hermit. The cards will be unnumbered so if you prefer, say Justice at 11 (I prefer 8) you can just put her there! Some of my cards depart from standard imagery, some stick fairly close. Please feel free to comment, I'm looking forward to it.
Mallah