Tarot, or Not Tarot, That is the Question

Next meeting: Tuesday 10 March 2009 7:00 pm place TBD

Looks like the project is gonna be the New Tarot.

Betsey and Richard wandered out and got some mildly cardlike card stock and 200 cards cut to 5.5" tall by 3" wide, and the deal will be to come up with a new person/concept for a tarot card and illustrate that (9 times - one per member, so everybody ends up with a set). No template, no format, just a few rules:

1) fit your artwork to the space provided
2) include a number (to be assigned at the meeting) and a name, anywhere on the card, to give a title to your illustration(s),
3) a vertical/portrait orientation is strongly recommended.

Most forms of illustration would be fine - pencil, pen, colored pencil, rubber stampage, stencil, wood-block - hey, litho if you can find a stone and press -- but glued artwork will probably make it hard to shuffle your card without significant damage. There are no plans to laminate cards.

We got enough paper for 20-odd cards x 9 copies of each card, tho it seems unlikely we'd use 'em all up in one night. If we're using novel concepts, the chance that any two of us would come up with the same idea seems remote, but if you want to glom one of the ones on my list of newbies, below, just let me know so I can head off any duplicious efforts.

No plans for the cards' backsides, but we may want to be concerned about bleed-through.

Here are some links to a few different interpretations of the Tarot Major Arcana:

http://www.arielspeaks.com/Tarot_Major_Arcana.html traditional Rider/Waite deck
http://margotmystic.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/major-arcana.jpg more modern artsy interp.
http://eroomnala.livejournal.com/31329.html - like generic/modern signage - think Men's Room / Women's Room signs

but rather than illustrate the old stuff, let's come up with our own concepts to illustrate.