one card tarot by kyan
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 04:30
one card so far...
it’s a 10 of wands collage card using art downloaded from the metropolitan museum of art’s website.
last night i saw someone had posted a link on the old AT forum’s collaborative deck sign up thread (for deck five?) about the met’s website — apparently all the art there is available to download unless otherwise stated. wow... what a find!
the foreground art (shepherd) is by Ferdinand Hodler and background is “Heroic Landscape with Rainbow” by Joseph Anton Koch.
i created this on my phone using the brushes redux app, then added a rounded corner frame in snapseed. i initially added an X (10) in phonto, but decided to remove it because it covered the rainbow.
the shepherd and the landscape were chosen simply because i really loved the art. afterwards, i thought which RWS card could be duplicated, at least somewhat, and the 10 of wands came to mind.
it’s similar to RWS in that the shepherd’s face is hidden, tho he’s not actually carrying the sticks here. it’s as if the burden was too much to bear (like a cross to bear) and so he had to stop and rest before he collapsed. will he recuperate and continue on his journey soon? he’s stressed out, yet it’s a beautiful day, with parting clouds now revealing a rainbow. perhaps good things will happen when he lifts his head. the man belonging to the arm at the lower left seems to think so, encouraging his friend to get up and keep going. or maybe he’s saying, “see? i told you so!”
it’s a 10 of wands collage card using art downloaded from the metropolitan museum of art’s website.
last night i saw someone had posted a link on the old AT forum’s collaborative deck sign up thread (for deck five?) about the met’s website — apparently all the art there is available to download unless otherwise stated. wow... what a find!
the foreground art (shepherd) is by Ferdinand Hodler and background is “Heroic Landscape with Rainbow” by Joseph Anton Koch.
i created this on my phone using the brushes redux app, then added a rounded corner frame in snapseed. i initially added an X (10) in phonto, but decided to remove it because it covered the rainbow.
the shepherd and the landscape were chosen simply because i really loved the art. afterwards, i thought which RWS card could be duplicated, at least somewhat, and the 10 of wands came to mind.
it’s similar to RWS in that the shepherd’s face is hidden, tho he’s not actually carrying the sticks here. it’s as if the burden was too much to bear (like a cross to bear) and so he had to stop and rest before he collapsed. will he recuperate and continue on his journey soon? he’s stressed out, yet it’s a beautiful day, with parting clouds now revealing a rainbow. perhaps good things will happen when he lifts his head. the man belonging to the arm at the lower left seems to think so, encouraging his friend to get up and keep going. or maybe he’s saying, “see? i told you so!”