LupaGreenwolf
Hi, all!
So, like other folks on this subforum I'm designing and producing a tarot deck. However, mine is really, really ambitious. The Tarot of Bones (http://www.thetarotofbones.com) is a natural history-themed deck; the art is going to be seventy-eight permanent assemblage pieces with animal skulls and bones (mostly real, a few replica) as the centerpieces. I'll then be photographing each piece and use the photos as the card art, and there'll be a companion book, too.
Is it going to be a lot of work? Absolutely. But I've been creating art with natural materials for almost twenty years, and I've published several books on nature spirituality, so I'm bringing in a lot of skills I've been honing for years. I'm also self-employed full-time, so I have the schedule flexibility to work on this project amid everything else I do. My plan at this point is to do a big crowdfunding campaign this spring, have all the assemblage pieces and the first draft of the book completed by the end of 2015, and (if all goes well) have the deck and book available via self-publishing summer of 2016.
I've already created three of the assemblage pieces within the past week, and I've written up their sections in the book-to-be as well; I would have gotten an earlier start but I run an arts festival that happened the second weekend of January. (Yes, I am a busy lady!) Here's what I have done so far:
Three of Cups: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/three-of-cups/
Four of Wands: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/four-of-wands/
Temperance: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/temperance/
Some of the pieces will need to be photographed against an extra background since each one is a difference size and dimensions, but after that it's mainly a matter of cropping and editing a bit. Also, each one will have its own look and personality; it's not just going to be "Here, I'm going to paste five ribs to this background, and then six ribs to an identical background". (I'd get bored really quickly!) There'll likely be a bit more variation in the Major Arcana; as you can see in the ones above Temperance stands out from the other two. But they'll all be bound by their focus on the bones themselves and the use of other natural materials, along with the graphics details like the card name and number tags. Just as nature isn't composed of one single type of ecosystem, neither will this deck have only one narrow color scheme.
Interested in finding out more? Here's the main project website: http://www.thetarotofbones.com
And the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/bonestarot
And I'll make updates here, too, as I finish new pieces and so forth.
So, like other folks on this subforum I'm designing and producing a tarot deck. However, mine is really, really ambitious. The Tarot of Bones (http://www.thetarotofbones.com) is a natural history-themed deck; the art is going to be seventy-eight permanent assemblage pieces with animal skulls and bones (mostly real, a few replica) as the centerpieces. I'll then be photographing each piece and use the photos as the card art, and there'll be a companion book, too.
Is it going to be a lot of work? Absolutely. But I've been creating art with natural materials for almost twenty years, and I've published several books on nature spirituality, so I'm bringing in a lot of skills I've been honing for years. I'm also self-employed full-time, so I have the schedule flexibility to work on this project amid everything else I do. My plan at this point is to do a big crowdfunding campaign this spring, have all the assemblage pieces and the first draft of the book completed by the end of 2015, and (if all goes well) have the deck and book available via self-publishing summer of 2016.
I've already created three of the assemblage pieces within the past week, and I've written up their sections in the book-to-be as well; I would have gotten an earlier start but I run an arts festival that happened the second weekend of January. (Yes, I am a busy lady!) Here's what I have done so far:
Three of Cups: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/three-of-cups/
Four of Wands: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/four-of-wands/
Temperance: http://www.thetarotofbones.com/otw-portfolio/temperance/
Some of the pieces will need to be photographed against an extra background since each one is a difference size and dimensions, but after that it's mainly a matter of cropping and editing a bit. Also, each one will have its own look and personality; it's not just going to be "Here, I'm going to paste five ribs to this background, and then six ribs to an identical background". (I'd get bored really quickly!) There'll likely be a bit more variation in the Major Arcana; as you can see in the ones above Temperance stands out from the other two. But they'll all be bound by their focus on the bones themselves and the use of other natural materials, along with the graphics details like the card name and number tags. Just as nature isn't composed of one single type of ecosystem, neither will this deck have only one narrow color scheme.
Interested in finding out more? Here's the main project website: http://www.thetarotofbones.com
And the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/bonestarot
And I'll make updates here, too, as I finish new pieces and so forth.