Eight of Wands- peregrine falcon Upright: Swiftness an problem solving, an urge to take action, rapid change, flight Reverse: Failure to act, frustration and delays, resistance The original Rider-Waite design shows 8 wands being launched through the air symbolising flight, naturally this card should lend itself to a bird themed deck comfortably but I found … Continue reading Tarot Tuesday- 8 of wands
Red-Legged Seriema Represented by: Red-legged seriema Upright meaning: triumph, success, victory, winning. It’s indicative of pride and high self esteem. Reversed meaning: losing, failure, loss of self confidence and self assurance. Red legged seriema sketch from when I originally designed the deck in 2020. I really wanted a red-legged seriema in my original major arcana … Continue reading Tarot Tuesday: 6 of Wands
Occult Ornithology Tarot deck now available to pre-order!This week's card spotlight will be looking at the 18th card of the major arcana, The Moon, represented by a Lyrebird. My version of the card is represented by a superb lyrebird, a bird renowned for it's ability to mimic. When thinking about The Moon card, it was … Continue reading Card spotlight: The Moon
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 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
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
At the time of writing this post, I have 10 days left on my Kickstarter and am inching closer to my #4th stretch goal which is an exclusive Kickstarter bookmark, here is my design: The theme of this design is perfection in knowledge. I'm really happy with how it has turned out! The symbol at … Continue reading Bookmark design
I have a collection of my experimental horror illustrations on Kickstarter at the moment. The book will be a 40 page full colour book collecting my horror art from 2017- till the present, talking about influences and unique colour choices for the works. The book (thanks to Kickstarter!) will have a lovely foiled cover and … Continue reading Memento Mori- Now on Kickstarter
I really enjoyed the colour palette for my last piece Ritual, so I decided to try my hand on a follow up piece, this time titled Madonna. I'm fairly pleased with how she's come out, and had quite a lot of fun with the composition of the image and rendering the decorative elements. I feel … Continue reading Madonna
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