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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Suit of Cups , coloured
Month: March 2019
Tarot Courts, Cups in the Hes – Derua Tarot
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…..
Hes – Derua Tarot, Court cards in the Cups, drying
Hes – Derua Tarot, Court cards, Cups, almost finished
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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Court cards in the Cups
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 Suit of Cups – coloured
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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Colouring the Suit of Cups in the Hes – Derua Tarot
Yellow and red colours …these photos are about the colouring process of the Cup cards using plant based paints….
In the next photo of the Ace of Cups the green paint is just drying….
… as in the next photo about the Two of Cups.
In the photos you can see that the red colour is very shiny , it is because I put too much gummi arabicum in the paint, so it got too sticky. It is not easy to paint with either, because of the same reason: I have to paint the red patches in several layers…
Next time I post the – almost – entiry suit of Cups with all the colours.
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The Hes – Derua Tarot and …. Triskelion , our Cat
She is a really great help….
I usually start working on the cards at 3 or 4 a. m. with Triskelion on my lap purring me into a meditative state…. so I do not get up and disturb her napping:). This helps me to do a lot of painting and drawing till 6 or 7 a. m. when we get some breakfast…
The same with blogging… although she could nap in a more comfortable place and position she does not leave until breakfast time…
Next time I will post some photos about the different phases of the painting process…
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Re-creating the Hes Tarot 