The Eklektikos Tarot: February 2010

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Change

The only constant is change...

Traditionally known as Death.

The Lighthouse

Traditionally known as the Tower.

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Monday, 8 February 2010

The Star

For the great mathematicians and astronomers from the Middle East.

The Empress

The "green" lady.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

The Chariot

Represented here by Boudicca, the queen of the Iceni people of eastern England.

The Machi

The "Machi" is the shaman for the Mapuche culture, from the south of Chile.

This is the High Priestess.

The King of Pentacles

One of the few Minor that is done and one of my favourites.

Info

All the paintings are done on The Langton Extra smooth (hot pressed) grain satiné, 300g/m2 from Daler Rowney ...even though this paper is for watercolour, it works perfectly well for pencil colours.

I've used all sorts of pencil colours for the cards, from water colour pencils such as Inktense, Graphitint, Rexel (all 3 from Derwent), Albrecht Durer (Faber Castell), to traditional pencil colours, such as Pablo (Caran D'ache), Polycromos (Faber Castell) ,Bruynzeel and every pencil colour I have come across.

In some cases, for details, I've use a thin brush on the watercolour pencils... and yet considering the size of the drawing themselves, too much detail is almost impossible.

The original size of the all the drawings is 15,4 x 22,8 cms.

The final card size would be 8,1 x 12,9 cms.

The Eklektikos Tarot