GalllowsInk Posted July 11, 2021 Author Posted July 11, 2021 On 7/9/2021 at 11:28 PM, Saturn Celeste said: Excellent! I think with the action of your cards, you don't really need traditional color because there is nothing really traditional about your art style. Although I do see these cards more as art than tarot, if you know what I mean? Your drawing is really flamboyant and you have so much detail in both the subject and the details surrounding it. I particularly love the parrots in the night sky on the King of Swords. He also reminds me of Scyther from Pokemon. ALSO thankyou, I really appreciate the compliment....for a long time I was worried about the fact everyone seemed to be so more advamced in ability because of technical skills I hadn't bothered to learn (I dropped out of school in the 10th grade and haven't looked back....) It's only been quite recently that I know that I'm not at any kind of disadvantage because of lt, and I don't worry about whether its "professional" , I just like doing it. And like. You know. Do your thing. And **** em' if they dont like it. (Also I reaaaaallly think when I redo this one it might be a good idea to actually give him a Scythe, thanks for that like idea! ....it may not work due to association with the archetypicall "Death" character, and as a Monarch he'd not be a Harvester, but the one directing the harvest. I'll weigh it up and see what works.....I might rethink it for the Knighy of Swords.... I currently have him with rhe Sword and Sickle that he weilds in the Thoth card, with the Sword meant to represent a tuning fork type situation....A Scythe might actually be more appropriate as a melding of the RWS and Thoth styles, and the way it is used actually makes more sense for the posing of the Thoth card....I had a **** of a time trying to figure out how to have him using his tools on my card without making it look bonk:
GalllowsInk Posted July 11, 2021 Author Posted July 11, 2021 (edited) ....ALSO ....I dont think Its as obvious as I like, but the King, Queen, Knight and Page all have the same "cherub" head above their crown....Its got a few different meanings, but a good chunk ot them is because I wanted the put it in and have it be a direct homage to this series of artworks....the first has a lot of internet forum - urban legendy type mystique surrounding it being a haunted painting bought off eBay ......but its a little more nuanced than that. The story Where to begin? Well I've always had a connection to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. I think we all do. Artists - especially visual artists - are barometers for the currents that run through this collective. Dreams are a common experience people may have with this. Anyway, my own experience is a sensitivity to place – physical, geographical place. There are memories, echoes of all the life within a place. Maybe it's what's called channeling. When I painted the Hands Resist Him in 1972, I used an old photo of myself at age five in a Chicago apartment. The hands are the 'other lives.' The glass door, that thin veil between waking and dreaming. The girl/doll is the imagined companion, or guide through this realm." https://www.stonehamstudios.com/haunted ..... .and in finding that Link to post here.....Ive just seen that Bill Stoneham, the man who created them....has literally just revealed a 5th painting in the series and....well it was quite a moment for me haha Edited July 11, 2021 by GalllowsInk
Saturn Celeste Posted July 13, 2021 Posted July 13, 2021 On 7/11/2021 at 4:05 AM, GalllowsInk said: Also I reaaaaallly think when I redo this one it might be a good idea to actually give him a Scythe, thanks for that like idea! ....it may not work due to association with the archetypicall "Death" character, and as a Monarch he'd not be a Harvester, but the one directing the harvest. A suggestion I have is to try a scythe along with a short blade almost like a duel wield. Have a monarch type banner behind him signify is stature as a king. Anyway, you're doing a great job, keep up the good work!
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