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Tarot: Ace of Coins
I'm back to working on the Karnese Tarot project. I'm not sure why this is calling me so much more strongly than the 3d character modeling project did. Maybe it's just easier on the brain - painting is much more focused than 3d work, where you keep needing to jump between aggressive experimentation (to learn the software), visual eye (to make it look good), technical fiddling (to figure out which tools to use for what), and the big picture (because otherwise it's very easy to waste time on detail that's never actually seen). Maybe it's because it's all soft skills. Maybe because the pressure's off.
I'm still going to keep working towards 3d, but meanwhile here is another tarot painting.
The meaning of the card (coins and pentacles are equivalent)
He is tiroth, who are jungle folk and crafters. Also very easily distracted by pretty shiny colourful things. :)
I noticed while I was working on this, how similar the composition was to a pen-and-ink I did six years ago. It was my "before" therapy drawing. The first session, he asked me to draw where I currently stood, what had brought me to therapy. I said I'd already done it and after resistance made my hands pull out the sketchbook and show him.
It is striking how the shape of inspiration has changed.
I'm still going to keep working towards 3d, but meanwhile here is another tarot painting.
The meaning of the card (coins and pentacles are equivalent)
He is tiroth, who are jungle folk and crafters. Also very easily distracted by pretty shiny colourful things. :)
I noticed while I was working on this, how similar the composition was to a pen-and-ink I did six years ago. It was my "before" therapy drawing. The first session, he asked me to draw where I currently stood, what had brought me to therapy. I said I'd already done it and after resistance made my hands pull out the sketchbook and show him.
It is striking how the shape of inspiration has changed.
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Ok, so what strikes me (don't ask me who I am tonight! I am confused myself :-P)
is that the meaning you linked to is really very different to the sense I got when I was looking/feeling the card before I checked out the meaning.
I felt like s/he had found something incredibly precious and was like framing it with their hands with that sort of wonder and awe you get when you find something precious. Like when you have an epiphany.
I wouldn't have thought of it as being in primary colours, because to me that is a reddish brown and a brownish green and soft and muted. I think of primaries as bold and attention-grabbing.
I find that the precious find is found in the ground really important. Shamanically, that is really significant. Earth as an element, and also earth as in the physical world. To be finding meaning in the physical realities of life. To understand the value of being grounded.
But then you have the spiral of life and energy above. I think it is very balanced. It isn't grounding in a heavy way, but balanced. And the person is there in between it all. Their focus on the heart in the earth but their life/the heart/their world lit from above. Well ok, maybe not literally in your painting so much as the light seems more to be coming from the heart (Which is really gorgeous I reckon :-), but the overall painting is lit from "spirit" in the spiral above.
Yeah, now how is that for waxing lyrical!
I don't think the second painting is "better" or "worse" they are different is all :-)
I think I am Leonie, after all!
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What kind of sentence is this???
How about just "The precious find beingmjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkjkmilll in the ground is really important from a shamanic perspective."
Er, the Hat walked over the keyboard. I give up!
:-D
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I didn't even notice that the wording was strange the first time through. "The precious find being found in the ground..." Now that sounds kind of like a kids' rhyme.
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Maybe I should have made his hands more like digging instead of cupped around the heart. But that was how it felt to me, the epiphany and the sense of preciousness. I'm curious why to you it seemed very different than the written card description, because to me that's what the epiphany was about, reconnecting with that sense of groundedness and the desire to grow and create. I'm wondering now what this card would mean for somebody who wasn't disconnected from their desire to create.
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Now that is interesting!
I will go back and take a look at that definition then...
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