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Happy Thanksgiving!
Although Thanksgiving is an American holiday (with rather suspect origins), the sentiment of being thankful and reflecting on those people and things you appreciate and cherish in life is a positive one. This Thanksgiving, I chose to paint the sixth card in the Major Arcana, The Lovers. The Lovers is a card that does double duty as an optical illusion. Up close, the card depicts two figures in love, embracing each other, and is arranged in a composition resembling that of an upside down triangle (compared to its mirror card, The Devil, which is arranged in a standard triangular composition). An angel...
Happy Samhain!
Happy Samhain, Halloween, and Day of the Dead! To celebrate the holiday, I painted the last card in the Major Arcana, The World! You'll notice I renamed the card to "The Universe," in honor of Aleister "the wickedest man in the world" Crowley's Thoth Tarot Deck. I felt like this was a much better representation of the meaning of the card. The sash reads: "All light will turn to darkness, and in all darkness, there is found light." - an encapsulation of the entire deck and its philosophical underpinnings of balance, cycles, symmetry, nature, and man's place in the immense...