3Dness
Thanks again for the warm welcome, I appreciate all that this forum has to offer and for the comments and support.
Painting the tarot is not an undertaking for the faint of heart... I had no idea where I was going, or what it was all about, instead I entered on the journey on trust or faith that I would finish it, though at times.... Lets just say that I had to "go through" every card as I painted it, and some were harder than others.
I drew the cards as I went, so I may have painted one King one year and another two years later... Once I painted them they were photographed and then stored, so I didn't go back to "make them right" after. I just trusted that when the painting "told" me it was finished that it was. I only re-painted maybe two or three paintings in the beginning, to get the suits to have a look, colour pallet and such, and once it got going, I quit questioning or fighting anything, and just let them come as they did.
The 3D thing was really exciting to discover.. It happens in part because of my painting style, I use a fine black line around everything, in part because I love to play with the illusion of depth in paintings, and in part from the printing process which uses opaque and translucent inks. The opaque inks sit on top of the translucent ones.
We discovered the "3Dness" in some prototype cards we made with the major arcana, Caeli was using a magnifying glass to see all the details in the card and phoned me up saying they go 3D!! I just said "yes, the paintings are 3D, that is how I painted them", then she said "No they are really 3D have a look."
I was so excited and thrilled that they had this "trippy" aspect to them, I loved the TV show Carnivale and they had tarot cards in the opening that the camera went into, so when our deck had this effect I was quite chuffed... It literally, adds a whole new dimension to the cards.
So get out your large magnifying glass, you need to look at it with both eyes to get the effect. You may also see details you had missed before.
Thanks again for this opportunity to share with you my journey through the tarot and the resulting Pearls of Wisdom Tarot Deck and Book. If you have any specific questions feel free to ask and I will try to answer as best I can.
If you want me to make comments on the cards already in the forum, just let me know.
Enjoy your journey through the cards.
with love Roxi