Pen Tarot
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[edit] Description
A set of 23 cards - the major arcana of the traditional tarot, plus one extra card - The Artist. The cards are not numbered, but each features a short quotation chosen to add a new dimension to the meaning. A LWB gives the quotations and their attributions in full.
[edit] Creator(s)
Penelope Cline
[edit] Publishing details
ISBN: None
[edit] Date of Publication
2008
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[edit] Deck creation and/or publication process
The cards are professionally printed on heavy card (350 gsm), 9cm x 14 cm) and have satin finish fronts. The backs are white and feature a line drawing of a tawny owl holding a quill beside a pot of ink. The title card features a larger version of the same owl with the addition of a grey tone and is signed and numbered on the reverse. The edition is limited to 100 decks.
[edit] Creator's comments
The Pen Tarot is the result of the development of a fascination with tarot that began with completion of The Mystic Rubáiyát,a set of meditation cards based on Edward Fitzgerald’s creative translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. Having spent many years on this project, I felt ready to begin an artistically original tarot that featured the traditional archetypes, and so began a tarot centred around my magickal novel, The Golden Web. But, as sometimes happens, a drawing I made somewhat casually sparked more urgent inspiration, and set me on a completely different course. The Pen Tarot is the fruition of that inspiration and my new obsession, both artistic and historical, with All Things Tarot.
The images for The Pen Tarot were mostly drawn from life and made with a Pilot 0.5 pen, followed by diluted ink applied with a brush. The colour was created with Caran D’Ashe aquarelle crayons. Texture, extra form where needed, and the black backgrounds on some cards were done digitally.
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