baba-prague
lunakasha said:Karen:
Just curious....will you be featuring any black-and-white (tuxedo) cats in this deck??? I'm thinking maybe THE DEVIL???
Karen
Ah - well, this might be giving it away, but so far the sketches of High Priestess and Hierophant are both black and white cats. For all sorts of reasons. Partly that I wanted them to look like two sides of the same coin. They are marked similarly, but very different facially.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure of is the Heirophant. He may get changed (though I like him very much - but boy, is he one battered old tom cat - bits of ear missing!) The High Priestess will stay the way she is. You'll get it at once when I put her up and you see her face. She's perfect.
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Hudson. Thank-you for that encouragement - appreciated. Well, yes, in fact I did hold off showing this deck (and held off posting for a bit) because of that bunch of weird stuff from that guy in November (or December? can't remember now). I just thought that if he was going to send a bunch of accusations over Tarot of Prague, then I wouldn't provoke him any more by showing him this. I could just imagine how sarcastic he could be.
I did also think that some people - not him! - might be disappointed and think BBCtarot is not serious enough, so I waited months before posting (plus of course we only had rough sketches anyway). In fact, I think in its own way it IS serious - I just know it will read in a very interesting way - not in a silly way. But I thought there might be a bit of "good grief, what are you doing?" Not that I'd mind, but it did make me nervous to start off with.
But, I think I may have said that a very well-known graphic design critic friend gave us confidence, because every time she comes here she doesn't at all want to see the new "serious" graphics we are doing (we do have one very "fine art" project up our sleeves) - instead she just goes weak-kneed over the tiny costumes! It makes me smile - really nice that she can be so honest about what really, truthfully does appeal to her.
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edited to add. Oh my goodness, the photos are great! Lovely cats you have there - real beauties.