My school's Illustration Club has been working on a very big project for about a year now. We are creating an entire deck of 78 Tarot Cards with art by over 60 different students and faculty. I have had the honor of helping to lead this project, and we're getting closer and closer to its completion. I finished my 3rd and very last card today - Page of Cups.
The traditional Page of Cups card shows a man holding a cup with a fish coming out of it. One of the big focuses of our Tarot Card Project was to have every artist create her/his own interpretation of her/his assigned card. It was pretty open ended, as long as the interpretation of the card still related to the traditional card. I chose to change the man to a bear. The story in my card is that the bear was sitting down to have a drink when suddenly a mysterious fish appeared in his cup, and now the bear can't decide whether he should eat the fish or if he should keep it as a friend. I think he'll choose to keep it as a friend :)
I always make quite a big mess when I paint/collage. It's always interesting to see such a mess transformed into an illustration.
I can't wait to see the project completely finished!
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