Chronata
UPDATED NOTE* Ignore everything in this first post...as there is definitely NOW more than one copy. And yes the lure of paying bills and not getting evicted forced me to reproduce it! There are two very small editions of the Majors, and now I am working on Minors. Ok...back to your regularly scheduled thread!*
I finally got a chance to get decent scans of the cards, so I could show you all really what it looked like.
There is only one of these decks that exists (except for the one in my computer)...and now it's long gone.
So, this isn't a deck I am going to reproduce or anything, and it was made really because I desperately needed rent money.
I felt bad about that originally, but now I have made peace with it.
And looking at the scans again... I see it...not as the Deck Of Desperation...but as a collection of art that actually, despite not trying to...makes a pretty decent tarot deck!
I mean, I have some in my collection that were made WITH the full intention of being tarot, that are far more obscure.
So, I shouldn't feel bad.
I am including the notes on all the art along with each scan.
I am actually thinking I need to make another copy for myself.
NOTES ON THE CHRONATAROT
This is the first tarot I have made using the art work that I have created in the last 4 years, simply for the love and joy of making art, and experimenting with new techniques and ideas.
Artist Trading Cards also called ATCs are small playing card sized art meant to be traded or given away to other artists. I love the small size, and the wide open landscape of themes, mediums, challenges and creativity that can be used to make an ATC.
Even though these particular works of art were not intended to be used as tarot (with the exception of the Wheel) and were created as individual pieces or sets, I do believe they hold together well as a divination tool. I have been told that a great deal of my art appears to have spiritual, symbolic or diviniatory under tones. I do profess to being an intuitive artist, and a self taught one, as well as a worker of Magic. And since I have been doing tarot almost as long as I have been drawing, I believe that the two have become inseparable in my daily life.
I dream in tarot archetypes.
In choosing the art work for this deck of images...I ran into a bit of a problem.
Of the hundreds of ATCs I have drawn and painted over the last few years, only a small percentage was viable.
Many of the most appropriate images had never been scanned before being traded away,or had been scanned, but at the wrong DPI, or saved as a too small file, and couldn't be reproduced.
And while some themes and card symbols appear many times in my work, others are much rarer to find. I had a whole pile of cards to choose from for the Devil, Moon and Empress...but finding a good Justice or Tower card proved to be more of a scavenger hunt!
A note of ATC swaps....
In the business of trading Artist Trading Cards, there is a common custom called Swaps.
A swap is hosted by one artist, who calls for a particular theme, and many artists make up to usually 4 cards to represent the theme. Then the host swaps them out randomly among all the other particpants.
A note on Medium...
The medium I use most often for making ATCs is listed as Ink, Pencil and Paint.
What this refers to, is my favorite method for layering color.
I usually sketch the work in pencil, then ink in the line art with micron pen.
Then, I use Sharpie brand markers to block in the colors, and overlay with Prismacolor pencil. A final addition of white acrylic paint highlights the piece.
TITLE CARD
Nikki The Tarot Reader 2005 Ink ,Pencil & Paint
Created for a Magick themed swap, she was one of a cast of four divinators. (the others were palm reader, rune reader, and tea leaf reader.)
I really like this card, and always thought it would be great used somewhere in my tarot reading advertising. Though not really intended to be a self portrait, I did once have hair this color!
I finally got a chance to get decent scans of the cards, so I could show you all really what it looked like.
There is only one of these decks that exists (except for the one in my computer)...and now it's long gone.
So, this isn't a deck I am going to reproduce or anything, and it was made really because I desperately needed rent money.
I felt bad about that originally, but now I have made peace with it.
And looking at the scans again... I see it...not as the Deck Of Desperation...but as a collection of art that actually, despite not trying to...makes a pretty decent tarot deck!
I mean, I have some in my collection that were made WITH the full intention of being tarot, that are far more obscure.
So, I shouldn't feel bad.
I am including the notes on all the art along with each scan.
I am actually thinking I need to make another copy for myself.
NOTES ON THE CHRONATAROT
This is the first tarot I have made using the art work that I have created in the last 4 years, simply for the love and joy of making art, and experimenting with new techniques and ideas.
Artist Trading Cards also called ATCs are small playing card sized art meant to be traded or given away to other artists. I love the small size, and the wide open landscape of themes, mediums, challenges and creativity that can be used to make an ATC.
Even though these particular works of art were not intended to be used as tarot (with the exception of the Wheel) and were created as individual pieces or sets, I do believe they hold together well as a divination tool. I have been told that a great deal of my art appears to have spiritual, symbolic or diviniatory under tones. I do profess to being an intuitive artist, and a self taught one, as well as a worker of Magic. And since I have been doing tarot almost as long as I have been drawing, I believe that the two have become inseparable in my daily life.
I dream in tarot archetypes.
In choosing the art work for this deck of images...I ran into a bit of a problem.
Of the hundreds of ATCs I have drawn and painted over the last few years, only a small percentage was viable.
Many of the most appropriate images had never been scanned before being traded away,or had been scanned, but at the wrong DPI, or saved as a too small file, and couldn't be reproduced.
And while some themes and card symbols appear many times in my work, others are much rarer to find. I had a whole pile of cards to choose from for the Devil, Moon and Empress...but finding a good Justice or Tower card proved to be more of a scavenger hunt!
A note of ATC swaps....
In the business of trading Artist Trading Cards, there is a common custom called Swaps.
A swap is hosted by one artist, who calls for a particular theme, and many artists make up to usually 4 cards to represent the theme. Then the host swaps them out randomly among all the other particpants.
A note on Medium...
The medium I use most often for making ATCs is listed as Ink, Pencil and Paint.
What this refers to, is my favorite method for layering color.
I usually sketch the work in pencil, then ink in the line art with micron pen.
Then, I use Sharpie brand markers to block in the colors, and overlay with Prismacolor pencil. A final addition of white acrylic paint highlights the piece.
TITLE CARD
Nikki The Tarot Reader 2005 Ink ,Pencil & Paint
Created for a Magick themed swap, she was one of a cast of four divinators. (the others were palm reader, rune reader, and tea leaf reader.)
I really like this card, and always thought it would be great used somewhere in my tarot reading advertising. Though not really intended to be a self portrait, I did once have hair this color!
