About the re-creation process of my favourite Marseille, The Hes Tarot
After a rather longish break I continue to colour the cards in the Hes-Derua Tarot. If you would like to support this my project, or just help me with some encouragement, please visit my Buy Me a Coffee page. All contributions are welcomed.
I plan to publish the next four cards before Christmas, so stay tuned:).
My blue paint is really strong, so it is a little bit too much here. Anyway I like her. There is one important thing to mention here, we cannot find the Cross symbol on her clothes or as a jewelry.
An other thing to notice…..the top of her tiara is – like one table leg on the Magician card – not in the main picture, but in the field where the roman numeral is.
A rather stout young man……. as in other Marseille decks, the ground does not continue on the left side of the card. One of the table legs is in the same field as the title and so left uncoloured. You can read more about The Magician card, and the making here.
I used plants to paint the cards, … you can read about the paints in an other post.
Painted using plants like madder, ligustrum vulgare……. I have already written about the Fool and you can see in one of my previous posts the black and white drawing.
After a longer break – I had to find a really good opportunity to scan all the black and white trumps in my deck – I post the first four trumps partially colored. The fully coloured cards will be posted here one by one…. Some photos about the making.
… just the black and white drawings, but I have finished all the trumps:).
You can read more about the Cups in the Hes – Derua Tarot here.
About the making I wrote as well..
About the black and white drawings…..
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I have finished the Court card in the Cups suit…. not a really good photo, the reds are too shiny
Some other photos made during the making…..
I had some difficult decisions to make about the colours. I decided to colour all the “skin surfaces” with a light pinkish-brownish shade, and some of the other patches also, this is the way of colouring in the Conver deck as well. I did not colour the King’s hair green – my colour scheme I try to stick to would advise me to do so, but I could not bring myself to do it:). … But I colored His boots in two different colours as in the original:). Another interesting thing is that the sleeve on the Page’s right arm is left uncolored in the original, so I did the same.
I will post the whole Cups suit in the next post ….. and the next step will be the first seven Major Arcana cards:)
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The four court cards in the suit of the cups yet uncoloured ….and the different “conversations” between them:)
Maybe you have already noticed, that in the page title the letter T is missing, like in the original Hes deck. About the I instead of Y (King and Queen) I have already written in other posts…..
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The coloured cards in the suit of Cups without the Courts……
One tiny piece is left uncolored, I will do it later…
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Re-creating the Hes Tarot 