I’ve been working on potentially creating a minor arcana for my tarot deck Occult Ornithology. It’s obviously a chance for me to include some birds that I feel were glaringly missing from the major arcana. Robin sketchbook page While I haven’t doodled any tarot cards today, I got warmed up for bird drawing by drawing … Continue reading Robin Sketches
I’ve been working on some new designs recently for screen printed back patches. My screen printer Carry On Screaming suggested I try designing some to be printed on white fabric as I’m a bit of a stickler for lovely gothic black. Some patches over the years, some of which are available on my Etsy Since … Continue reading Sunshine Puss sketch -> finished drawing
Occult Ornithology Tarot- now available to pre-order!This week's card spotlight is the 16th card in the major arcana, The Tower When it finally came to the time of designing the card for The Tower, I didn't have a specific bird in mind, I just knew it should be a sea bird or bird that nests … Continue reading Card Spotlight: The Tower
Occult Ornithology tarot: Now available to pre-order! Todays spotlight will focus on the fifth card in the major arcana, The Hierophant, represented by an Onagadori Rooster Applying the idea of 'tradition' to a bird isn't necessarily an easy concept. Lots of birds have been revered for centuries, could I use tradition in that sense? That … Continue reading Card Spotlight: The Hierophant
Occult Ornithology- Now on Kickstarter! The next card featured in the spotlight is the tenth card in the major arcana, The Wheel of Fortune. Deciding what should portray the Wheel of Fortune in my deck wasn't immediately apparent, I knew it needed to have a circular motif and the idea of the nest seemed fairly … Continue reading Card spotlight: The Wheel of Fortune
Occult Ornithology- Now on Kickstarter At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy The next card spotlight is for the Seventeenth card in the major arcana, The Star, … Continue reading Card spotlight: The Star
Occult Ornithology card spotlight: The Hermit represented by a grey heron
As some of you know from my previous post I have been working on a bird tarot deck, Occult Ornithology, which is now on Kickstarter. I have decided to do a spotlight every few days for cards! I will be shuffling a deck and pulling a card from random for each one, this morning I … Continue reading Card spotlight- Judgement
I’ve started (for fun) designing a bird inspired tarot deck, I only plan to do the major arcana at the moment and I’m making a heavily inspired by the Raider-Waite tarot deck, with my own interpretations in addition. The Fool- white stork The fool is the first card in the major arcana, often unnumbered but … Continue reading The Fool- bird tarot deck
Vampire Squid As a way to unwind while working on my next major comic project (Maleficarum with Frisson Comics) I’ve been making illustrations of my favourite cephalopod species. Paper Nautilus The style has been fun to practice with so far, and may become my 2020 animal zine depending on results! Any excuse to draw octopus, … Continue reading Cephalopedia
The Art of Katie Whittle 