I have been working on a new Tarot deck with three other artists: Martina Hoffmann, Carrie Ann Baade and Michel Bassot.
We each have a suit from the Minor Arcana and then we divided the Major Arcana with the back.
I have the Watery Cups which symbolize our emotions and intuition.
Each of the court cards also symbolizes an element and it’s characteristics:
Kings are the intellect
Queens are the emotions and intuition
Princes act
Princesses manifest
Therefore, the Princess of Cups manifests the emotions.
When she is following Love she will share her drink with you.
When she is following fear and ego she will drown herself in drink.
The Prince of Cups acts on his emotions
He will gallantly get you a drink
Or he will use his glass as a weapon
I just finished the Prince and Princess but I haven’t had a professional photograph taken of them yet. Here are the almost finished Prince and Princess.. I had to tilt away from light to avoid glare and get the right blue...(not a photographer)
and here's my process for the Princess..
I do my drawings on paper and then transfer it onto a canvas with carbon paper
I use a red sienna ground and then i lightly paint in the shadows. I also painted black around the figures.
I then add the whites to give the piece volume
A little yellow makes it glow..
Adding the water in white...a little blue for the figures...
Starting the blue glaze on the water, from below. The top picture in this blog, gives the color of the final blue glaze.
and final blue glaze (i actually darked the smoke steam behind the Princ's head since this photo was taken.)
Once I have done the King and Queen I will have all four photographed properly.
Hope the process was interesting :)