The Eklektikos Tarot: The Prince of Swords

Monday, 18 April 2011

The Prince of Swords

Inspired by a young Matsudaira Kurandonosuke Motoyasu, who will later be known as Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the key characters responsible for the unification of Japan.

1 comment:

Anonymous20 April 2011 at 14:17
Really like the Prince cards so far, and this is no exception. It certainly has the look and feel of someone who knows what he wants and will achieve it. This Prince has all the strength, vitality and go-getting that I associate with the Sword Prince. Now I look forward to the Prince of Pentacles which I know you will capture perfectly.
Blessings
Val (UK) x
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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.