Sophie-David
Having just studied my first Court cards, I notice that Anna-Marie uses three different artistic styles in the Legend deck. The Courts have the strongest lines and most intense colours, definitely expressive of personality. The Minors have light lines and an ethereal quality that blends one object into another, and the Majors lie between these two styles.
This heavier style in definitely appropriate for the energetic and bold Knight of Spears, Bedivere, and this is a wonderfully evocative card. Starting with his facial features, we see a man of rugged beauty, with heavy eyebrows and moustache, what could be a warriors knot of hair from the back of his head (what is that called, Anikan Skywalker had one in Star Wars Episode II?), his arm is muscular but not unrealistically so, and he casts a penetrating and powerful stare towards his left. This is definitely a man who is dashing and daring, an intense man with a powerful presence. As the text says, "magnetic" and I would add, virile. Definitely attractive to the ladies - but perhaps, as is so often the case, a man with other priorities.
A Keeper of Wands tells us that Bedivere is one of the original and perhaps most loyal followers of Arthur, the only one who was with him from beginning to end. I get the sense that this is a man on a mission, he has just set forth from his castle, and he pauses at what could be a crossroads, weighing his options.
Looking now at his attire, he wears a tunic with a cross of pink(!) atop what could be a diamond shape of green. Again, as the text suggests, this man is bold and unconventional. He wears heavy, practical and durable pants, and practical, heavy and well worn boots. Across his back is draped a cape of gold, denoting his high rank and reputation. He sits on a horse blanket that looks rather like a tartan, another symbol of wild masculine virility.
Even his horse mirrors the same intense unflinching stare of its master, harnessed with the gold of royalty, with a very powerful and muscular frame.
The Knight of Spears descends from lofty, craggy heights, the path is rocky, the grass pale and weathered, the tree sparse and wind damaged, with a great gash of bark taken off of one side. His castle is square, blocky and utilitarian, low to the ground but powerful. This is perhaps the scene of a recent battle, but at the very least, we see a nature at war with the elements, the scenery a testament to wild and conflicting energies.
The sky is overcast, a white cloud against a sullen purple sky. In the cloud perhaps the image of an upraised hand, about to throw down the gauntlet?
This heavier style in definitely appropriate for the energetic and bold Knight of Spears, Bedivere, and this is a wonderfully evocative card. Starting with his facial features, we see a man of rugged beauty, with heavy eyebrows and moustache, what could be a warriors knot of hair from the back of his head (what is that called, Anikan Skywalker had one in Star Wars Episode II?), his arm is muscular but not unrealistically so, and he casts a penetrating and powerful stare towards his left. This is definitely a man who is dashing and daring, an intense man with a powerful presence. As the text says, "magnetic" and I would add, virile. Definitely attractive to the ladies - but perhaps, as is so often the case, a man with other priorities.
A Keeper of Wands tells us that Bedivere is one of the original and perhaps most loyal followers of Arthur, the only one who was with him from beginning to end. I get the sense that this is a man on a mission, he has just set forth from his castle, and he pauses at what could be a crossroads, weighing his options.
Looking now at his attire, he wears a tunic with a cross of pink(!) atop what could be a diamond shape of green. Again, as the text suggests, this man is bold and unconventional. He wears heavy, practical and durable pants, and practical, heavy and well worn boots. Across his back is draped a cape of gold, denoting his high rank and reputation. He sits on a horse blanket that looks rather like a tartan, another symbol of wild masculine virility.
Even his horse mirrors the same intense unflinching stare of its master, harnessed with the gold of royalty, with a very powerful and muscular frame.
The Knight of Spears descends from lofty, craggy heights, the path is rocky, the grass pale and weathered, the tree sparse and wind damaged, with a great gash of bark taken off of one side. His castle is square, blocky and utilitarian, low to the ground but powerful. This is perhaps the scene of a recent battle, but at the very least, we see a nature at war with the elements, the scenery a testament to wild and conflicting energies.
The sky is overcast, a white cloud against a sullen purple sky. In the cloud perhaps the image of an upraised hand, about to throw down the gauntlet?