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![]() Tarot Weblog - Adam Mc. Lean. 21 October 2. After a considerable delay, due to my moving house and also turning my energies to developing my alchemy website and my new Surrealism website, I have returned. I am initially going to sell these through my website, as this cuts costs to the buyer. It has also allowed me to develop a new. This enables the viewer to see the cards and the packing in which they are supplied. I still hold a few unsold copies in my personal collection. Consequently they fetch high prices and are frustratingly difficult to find. Once these are gone - they are gone! You can and buy them see through this page: -Out of print Art Tarot Decks for Sale. December 2. 01. 5The Legrande Circus and Sideshow Tarot was recently issued by US Games. The set of large, intensely coloured cards is supplied in a substantial cardboard box, which surely is the best way to package tarot. The imagery evokes the atmosphere of circus acts and the sideshows that surround a circus. It is a Rider Waite clone, following the Pamela Colman Smith images quite closely, though, of course, translating these into the world of the circus. The artist, Joe Lee, is not just someone enthused by circus imagery, but he studied clowning at the Barnum and Bailey Clown College, worked as a professional circus clown with Ringling Brothers Circus, and later wrote a number of books on the subject. After leaving the circus life he taught art classes in New York and came to establish himself as an illustrator. So who could be better to create a circus themed tarot. I do not usually have. I found I could not resist this one. I wish I could find the actual name of the artist. The character Lisa visits a tarot reader and during this she draws card XXIII 'The Happy Squirrel'. A few tarot artists, probably fans of The Simpsons, came to include a Happy Squirrel card in their decks. I noticed that Ly Narciso included this in his recent deck we looked at on the 1. November, and this led me to wonder just how many tarot include this. I can count nine, but there may well be more. Tarot de Maria Celia. Touchstone Tarot. Tierney's Delight. Midnight Masquerade. Tarot Collectors Forum deck 2. Picture Postcard. Mibramig. International Icon. Animism. Robin Ator's International Icon of 2. Robyn Tisch Hollister's Midnight Masquerade. I would welcome notices of any I have missed from this provisional list. It was essentially a prequel to the 2. Sordid Lives, also by Shores, self- described as a . A publicity notice states . The story of Bible- thumping Baptists, beer- swilling bar trash and everyone in between in a small Texas town, contrasted with the appearance- driven world of Hollywood and the hysterical comedy and tender poignancy that come from learning to be yourself and love the family you have instead of the family you want. Set of 2. 2 Majors plus 4 additional cards. On Monday while adding Korean material to my database I found that I had another fine tarot on this theme. These have been subtly and sensitively redrawn and coloured without overwhelming the underlying drawings. At first glance one would think the colouring was through watercolour, but on close inspection this appears to have been done digitally in watercolour style. I cannot immediately grasp many of the reworkings within the imagery, I suppose I must wait for an explanatory book. The previously obscure Lilith myth become popularised in the late 2. This tarot seems to work within this emergent myth. Here she is identified with the serpent on the tree, and we see her in the same role as the High Priestess. One would have to be relatively well read in Christian and Jewish mythology to grasp the meaning of many of the Major arcana within this system, though the Minors to a great extent follow the Pamela Colman Smith prototype. The artwork is a composite of line drawings with collaged elements, probably built up in layers using software like Photoshop. They have created their own mythological structure around a supposed realm of Kelcross. The deck was apparently created by six people. The Earth, Water and Air suits use the same diffuse, out of focus, style, obviously created digitally, while the Fire suit and the Majors (which in Kelcross speak is the Majum) have quite strong outlines which may have been first drawn by pen then scanned and coloured digitally. The creators of this imagined world have set up a Facebook Kelcross Academy to explain the elements of their underlying esoteric mythology. The Majors follow the established archetypes though some cards are renamed. The imagery of the pips of the Minors to a great extent reference Pamela Colman Smith's emblem sequences, but with considerable variations. I seem to recall this was initially launched as a Kickstarter project, but I am not sure if it proved successful. At any rate it is now available from the print- on- demand card game publisher www. The. Gamecrafter. November 2. 01. 5The Gioco degli Arcani Maggiori is a Majors only tarot issued in April 2. Italy. The. concept and book is by Valeria Menozzi and the illustrations were made by A. We see the Priestess with her cauldron and her little alchemical still. The Hermit seems very conventional, but then we notice at his feet a little hermit crab. We recall that the Golem is an idea in late medieval Jewish magic where an almost. Rabbi Loew of Prague. William Zierfus is a US writer and artist, who has written and illustrated a number of children's books and is probably influenced by the Dr. Seuss stories and illustrations. They are like blobs of protoplasmic lime, cherry and lemon jelly. They remind me of the early surrealistic paintings of Johfra (some decades before his more emblematic Zodiac Series). I am not sure if William Zierfus had seen these rather neglected paintings of Johfra Bosschart from the 1. We can recall such as the Tarot der Schatten, the Savage Tarot, the Marilyn Manson Tarot, the Devil's Tarot, the Alchemical Wedding Tarot and a number more. Well the Darkana has now joined this growing band of tarots that seem designed to excoriate and corrode the soul. Of course, this is a pose and high style in some communities, and not really to be taken that seriously. Like some others, the Darkana adopts a palette almost devoid of colour, with a background texture of inkblots and scratches. Imposed on this are digitally modified photographs in grey tones. Often the imagery on the card is perverse, the opposite of the stated meaning of the card. Thus the smiling Queen of Cups with . The pregnant Empress holds up a child wearing a gas mask. Some images are more positive, but one loses sight of this positivity in a grim dark sea. It will, doubtless, appeal to a certain audience and, of course, this negative imagery is part of modern tarot art. It can be seen as the antithesis, and perhaps a response to, the delightful and engaging imagery of some tarots. Darkana is not without humour and irony, but it will hardly make one laugh out loud, or even bring a smile to the lips. I feel the need to collect such material in order to fully document aspects of our modern culture, to make my collection representative of all facets of tarot art, but I expect only a small group of collectors will rush to buy this set of dark arcana. The major arcana were set on a background of gold leaf with silver leaf also applied to some of the images. These were not printed at the time, but earlier this year he took advantage of the US based print on demand card producer The Gamecrafter to issue these as the Marco Benedetti Tarot. He reduces each figure to a series of simple beautifully drawn curves colouring them sparely with block colour with no modelling. This abstraction seems to heighten their archetypal nature. His designs reflect the Art Deco style. This is a full 7. I include one of his original major arcana paintings so we can see the design with the gold leaf background. Sadly The Gamecrafter does not print in gold ink otherwise I feel sure Marco Benedetti would have used this. This is a rather cool, detached yet archetypal set of images. He is based in the Philippines and I think his earliest published tarots date to 2. One of the features of his art is that he does not adopt a fixed style, and each tarot he designs is quite different from its predecessors. This deck, Tarot de Maria Celia, is a Tarot de Marseilles in a modern art style with the figures drawn in flowing curves and are child rather than adult proportioned giving them larger heads and somewhat shorter limbs than is usual. This gives them a distinctive quality which is quite memorable. Narciso is at home in many media and has fine drawing skills, and most of his recent work is done digitally, however, his skills in traditional media enable him to produce high quality digital imagery. His texturing in this deck is very fine, and they are made to look as if they had been created on translucent tracing paper using oil based paints and one is viewing them in transmitted light, which is is rather neat device. We have seen in his other tarots how he loves to explore different aspects of luminosity. I look forward to seeing what he does next. He publishes decks under the name Paraluman, which I went and looked up in Google translate under Filipino, and found it meant . Lynyrd- Jym Narciso certainly has a good relationship with his muse. I have only just bought this tarot which is available through The Gamecrafter, though I have known about it for some time. I was consolidating some purchases in order to reduce the costs of postage and customs charges from the USA. So expect to see here a few decks issued through The Gamecrafter over the next few weeks. You can buy a copy from www. November 2. 01. 5I seem to remember that Mr Punch has made an appearance in some tarot decks, but here he asserts himself with a tarot deck entirely devoted to himself. This is the Tragically Comic or Comically Tragic Tarot of Mister Punch issued by Duck Soup Productions. The artwork is by Douglas Thornsjo, and we have seen his work before in the 2.
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