Maybe my next series?? Honestly I’ve been wanting to do my own version for a very long time. I think tarot cards are extremely fascinating and plan to start with the 22 Major Arcana set. It seems like it would be good place to start since it is considered the foundation of the deck. Originally I planned to start this series back in July… but I got stuck and started to lose motivation. So I’m curious of how many cards I will be able to accomplish before I have to take another break…
Im not interested in going in any particular order. So originally I began working on the high priestess and the empress cards simultaneously and since I got further along on the empress I’m going to start with it.
This is as far as I got back in July, I was getting frustrated with the gouache paint. It was coming out splotchy and lifting in certain area, more specifically near the head of the eagle. It is supposed to be an eagle but with the lifting it became some kind of weird unicorn eagle thing… My other issue was trying to include the boarder detail on the painting which caused me to shrink the image and not get as much detail in certain areas than I would have liked. So between the uni-eagle, paint and small image I called it quits for a while and decided to change mediums and practice more before continuing.
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