The Eklektikos Tarot

Monday, 30 April 2012

The Princess of Swords

2 comments:

D. D. Syrdal19 May 2012 at 16:11
Lovely! This whole deck is just a feast for the eyes.
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Anonymous22 May 2012 at 18:59
Your deck is stunning and a reflection of the thought and skill that you have taken in creating this tarot. I would be extremely proud to publish your deck and would like to find out more about it. If you are interested in discussing this partnership, please email me at: wizardtoo@optimum.net.
Best Regards. Ron L.
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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.