The Eklektikos Tarot: The Machi

Sunday, 7 February 2010

The Machi

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

This is the High Priestess.

1 comment:

mfsocias6 March 2010 at 02:14
Que maravilloso el trabajo que estan desarrollando. Es francamente extraordinario e inspirador. Esperare ansiosamente que lo terminen para poder adquirirlo y utilizarlo. Muchas Gracias.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

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.