The Eklektikos Tarot: The Empress

Monday 8 February 2010

The Empress

The "green" lady.

1 comment:

Willow27 February 2010 at 23:40
You know I am your biggest fan. The cards are spectacular, but this card has got to be my favorite. I expect a signed deck from you!!!!
p.s. I am still going to remove "The Twins" at MOMA and put up your work.
Love you deeply,
Robyn
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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.