Wildwood Tarot

You know, I've never had a Greenwood myself, and I was never really interested because the art just didn't grab me.

But I really hope that Virginia Lee gets the job for this because I think her work is gorgeous...it kind of reminds me of the artwork that Diane Goode did in the Random House Book of Fairy Tales...

oak_woman said:

I actually titled the thread 'Wildwood Tarot', so it clearly was never going to be, strictly speaking, a new 'edition' of the Greenwood. That's why it has a new name, I imagine. It's true that, as an editor myself, I should have picked up on the inaccurate use of the word!

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Oak_woman, I'm sorry that I seemed to be picking on you about the thread. My bad.

No probs, Nevada!

I suppose it´s inevitable that a thread on the Wildwood should refer back to the Greenwood. It´s like talking about the Universal Wirth without trying to refer to the Oswald Wirth...

I´m intrigued by this deck...

Mark's blog has some information on the elements of the new deck:

http://mark-ryan.blogspot.com/2008/12/pilgrim-greenwood-tarot.html

I think that making a new version is an ideal way orward. Trying to recreate the original artist's designs doesn't really work (visions aside): see Mythic Tarot and New Mythic Tarot as examples.

I will be excited to see the deck, which to me will be a new one. Not the old rehashed.

Aerin

Heads up peeps! Looks like the artist is Now Will Worthington of Druidcraft fame!

xx

OMG! I'm type-less! (instead of speechless)

Oh, cu-oolll...love his art in the druid craft, but I hope he tones down the big feet.

lark said:

Oh, cu-oolll...love his art in the druid craft, but I hope he tones down the big feet.

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LOL.. I have to say, I think that Virginia Lee's art has a delicacy and style which would be very suited to a greenwood-inspired deck. I like the Druid Craft, but Id quite got used to the idea of it done in her style...

I know the Druid Craft is earthy and stuff... What I love about the Greenwood is the lack of an explicit human presence in the cards. More animals and deities and strange creatures and stones and the earth. I know I´ll be lambasted, but I don´t really like the style of figure painting in the Druid Craft. I love the ferns unfurling and the water and the skies, but not really the people....