Well, I’m working away on the last card and soon I’ll be ready to ship all the art and the manuscript for The Voice of the Trees deck off to Llewellyn! This card is coming along great, and it’s a good feeling knowing that it’s almost done. I had my beautiful friend Lisa from Albuquerque model for this one Her husband Pete took photos of her based upon my rough sketch and emailed them to me, they did a great job!
The Gooseberry card in my deck represents comfort and success, so I wanted to portray a woman of means, probably a clan leader so she has purple cloak, which was hard and expensive dye to get long ago, her husband probably traded for it from a visiting dignitary. She also has very beautiful and ornate jewelry, showing her high status. She is out picking ripe gooseberries, not because she has to, but because she wants to. As she turns admiring the beauty of the land all around her and secure in her place in it, she has inadvertently tipped the full bowl of berries just a bit as a few spill out but won’t be missed because she has plenty, and even more waiting to be picked.
This card speaks of abundance, confidence, status and joy. This one should be done in a day or two, I’ll post the finished piece on my Voice of the Trees website soon. Speaking of which, there are several new pieces loaded in the gallery on my website, so pop over and take a peek.
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- Sketch for Gooseberry
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- Here it is about half way done
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