These cards all have the colors of Taurus, or the Hierophant. All earthy tones Red Orange; Deep Indigo; Deep Warm Olive; and Rich Brown. Plus the colors of the sephira in Assiah and the colors of the decan’s planetary ruler. In the Five of Disks the ruler is Mercury which has the more ethereal colors of […]
I’ve finally gotten to painting the decans of the Disk cards. This is where we most start to see the flecked colors which show the mixed and shattered colors inherent in the suit of earth. Tiphareth is the only sephira that does not have a flecked (or rayed) color in the Princess, or Empress, scale. I guess as […]
As I continue the process of painting the Minor Arcana I am constantly amazed by the genius of the Golden Dawn Color Scales. (The chart is from Lelandra.com, and I find it a good one barring monitor differences as colors can be hard to accurately portray online) In this post I’ll walk you through the […]
Well the Thanksgiving holidays had some of each… I did take a few days off making it an extra long weekend and got a lot of painting time. I also rescanned all of the color minors to date with a different scanner. They came out a lot better, and I’ve updated most of the pictures […]
After the last post, two people asked if I could share more about the process and the materials used. So for this time, I will show you some of that. You will see some of the ugly in-between stages of the coloring process. Don’t judge anything by those; the final ones look good. What you […]
Swiftness – the speed of light Glad to be on the wings of momentum. Here is an “in progress” picture : The Eight of Wands combines the Art card with the Magus. Color Scales for the Eight of Wands: King Scale for Hod: Violet Four Scales for Sagittarius: Blue; Yellow; Green; […]
The heart of the Wands suit is the fixed fire sign of Leo, spanning the middle of the Tree of Life, the 5,6, and 7. Here is contained one of the four Royal Stars of Heaven, Regulus, called also Cor Leonis, the heart of the Lion and the Watcher of the North, seen on Tabula Mundi’s Universe […]
The Tabula Mundi Tarot Colores Arcus edition is in progress! I have the three decans of Aries completed in color. Right after I finished painting the Major Arcana, and was about to start creating the Minor Arcana, I had a dream about finding an instrument that played colored lights instead of sound. It seemed like […]
Thought you might like to see them together. Can you see the underlying geometry? They are all built on the same series of Golden Ratio related circles, increasing in size from bottom to top for the feminine aces (cups and disks) and increasing in size from top to bottom for the masculine aces (wands and swords).
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that hearing about other people’s dreams is only about one step above listening to their medical problems in terms of interestingness. But this one seems to be one of what Jung called a big dream, meaning of significance rather than due purely to anxiety or that bit of cheese […]
