Drawing the Tarot – Four Knights to the Rescue
If you have followed my Tarot journey from the start (congratulations are in order!), you may know that this project initially began with a symbolic self-portrait-like interpretation of the 22…
Drawing the Tarot – Meet the Pages
A Page is seen as a youthful messenger; a voice speaking for the suit to which he or she belongs. In the drawings (pen & ink), I used key symbols…
A Day of Swords
The 9 and 10 of swords bring me to the end of the minor arcana on my tarot card journey. I find the symbolic nature of swords fascinating, even though…
Tarot – Pentacles & Rods
Today has been another day of painting tarot cards ... :) During winter, my workshop is at least 10 degrees colder than the rest of the house (when I'm in the…
Number 8 in the Tarot – or where to from here?
It is intriguing how often the card I am busy drawing and painting ends up mirroring real life (emotional state or event). Perhaps it is to be expected, considering the…
Minor Arcana #6 in Cups, Pentacles, Rods & Swords
I'm back again with the next four cards in my Tarot series; number 6 in the four suits. I've also done some printing research and am patiently (or impatiently) waiting…
5 of Cups, Pentacles and Swords
A quick update with my latest Tarot cards... the five of cups, pentacles and swords. When drawing the cards I find it interesting how they connect together in so many…
T-shirt, Flowers and Tarot
Tattoo - T-shirt A tattoo challenge on RedBubble had me inspired to slightly redesign 'sea sisters' and enter it in the competition. The brief was to 'design a tattoo even…
Tarot: Card size and versions of The Moon
After working on this project for near on 3 years you would think I'd have thought about the final size of the printed cards... not so (too busy drawing)... That…
A Design Project
A little while back RedBubble posted a design challenge on their website: Design a T-shirt for the Railroad Revival Tour 2012. As it was all about trains (which are pretty…
Tarot – Starting the minor arcana
The Minor Arcana In the Tarot deck, the minor arcana is made up of 4 suits: Rods, Swords, Pentacles and Cups - with 14 cards in each suite (this makes…
Dog Overboard
I went on a sunny bike ride with my friend Amanda today... Along the way there was a lady walking her dog... the little fluffy thing was on a lead,…
Every Doctor Who fan needs a TARDIS
One side-effect of watching re-runs of Doctor Who ... is that these wonderfully enticing stories have a tendency to draw you in and spit you out in a galaxy where anything…
Tarot: Judgement and The World
First 22 Cards Judgement and The World conclude the first part of the Tarot - the 22 cards in the Major Arcana. Having made a start on the first 22…
Tarot – The Sun – and some drawings
My latest card in the tarot series is The Sun; traditionally this card often has the sun clearly depicted in the centre of the card, with other elements in the…