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
Category: pip cards
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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The suit of Cups – before colouring…
Now that I am writing this post some of the cards are already coloured – and they look like real Marseille cards:).
But let us go through some of the interesting details… the two of cups was for me a puzzle for a while, than I checked the original photos, and realized that what seemed to be teeth in reality is the texture of the aged card. So the “monster” , – originally meant to be dolphins? , – got no sharp teeth on my cards after all:).
The Seven of Cups is not numbered, and has three bigger cups where the red liquid in the cups at the bottom and the top is rather in the upper part of the cups. I am not sure how to colour them, because in the upper part we can see the lines, but the lower part is blackish as well , so at the moment I am not able to work out what was the reason for it – maybe a colouring mistake on the original card?
On the Seven of Cups of the Hes Tarot is a cross on the cup in the middle of the card.
The numbers on the Eight and the Nine of Cups are interesting – one of the numbers is depicted like the standard roman numerals, but the other is not. Till now it is a mistery to me… I have no idea why they did it in this way. In my opinion, we can see the work of two different hands in the Hes Tarot deck. The person who carved the court cards and the Major Arcana is not identical with the one who carved the pip cards. The pip cards are made in a more crude manner, maybe that is a reason for the impossible roman numerals?
Next time I am going to post the coloured suit of cups.
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Re-creating the Hes Tarot 