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Here is the finished version of my Oryon tarot card. I moved my earlier submission into my scraps folder as it is a WIP.
I'm here to tell all you kiddies that painting Celtic knot-work is not fun. I am very certain that it took as long or longer to paint the knot-work and stones as it did to paint the actual image. So much fussy detail work! All those strands making up the knot-work are all about 1/8th of an inch wide. Anyway, I REALLY like how it all turned out.
A note on the stones and symbols: Each of the four corners as well as to top central thingy are all meant to be different stones. I think I did them acceptably, given this is my first time trying to paint stonework. The red one is supposed to be jasper, I forget the specific name of the yellow one, but it was in the sandstone family, the blue one was blue marble, the green one was jade, and the black one was stripy onyx.
The symbols on the for corners are representative of the four elements. I was going to go with the symbols from "5th Element" because those are the ones I usually think of, but I found them difficult to draw well. And the Earth symbol from this set is the same as the asexuality symbol and the Water symbol is also the gay symbol, so I went with this set. Red = fire/wands/action, yellow = air/swords/thought, green = earth/pentacles/practicality, and blue = water/cups/emotion.
The last symbol is called a triskel and has a number of renditions and groups claiming it as a representative symbol, among them the BDSM rights movement, the US Department of Transportation, the Transgendered community, the Irish Air Corps, and a number of martial arts. It is meaningful to me as representative of a person as a whole -- body, mind/spirit, and another part I have yet to identify. When I was studying Heidegger in one of my philosophy classes and we were discussion his philosophy of the individual, of "Dasein" -- Authentic, part of "the They", and primordial -- I drew this three-part yin-yang as a visual representation of the idea and I've liked the symbol in a spiritual nature ever since. At the time I thought I came up with it, but silly me, the internet exists! Therefore nothing is new.
Once again, this is Oryon, sitting on one of the triple-spiral standing-stones from Newgrange.
Acrylic on illustration board. 5"x8"
I'm here to tell all you kiddies that painting Celtic knot-work is not fun. I am very certain that it took as long or longer to paint the knot-work and stones as it did to paint the actual image. So much fussy detail work! All those strands making up the knot-work are all about 1/8th of an inch wide. Anyway, I REALLY like how it all turned out.
A note on the stones and symbols: Each of the four corners as well as to top central thingy are all meant to be different stones. I think I did them acceptably, given this is my first time trying to paint stonework. The red one is supposed to be jasper, I forget the specific name of the yellow one, but it was in the sandstone family, the blue one was blue marble, the green one was jade, and the black one was stripy onyx.
The symbols on the for corners are representative of the four elements. I was going to go with the symbols from "5th Element" because those are the ones I usually think of, but I found them difficult to draw well. And the Earth symbol from this set is the same as the asexuality symbol and the Water symbol is also the gay symbol, so I went with this set. Red = fire/wands/action, yellow = air/swords/thought, green = earth/pentacles/practicality, and blue = water/cups/emotion.
The last symbol is called a triskel and has a number of renditions and groups claiming it as a representative symbol, among them the BDSM rights movement, the US Department of Transportation, the Transgendered community, the Irish Air Corps, and a number of martial arts. It is meaningful to me as representative of a person as a whole -- body, mind/spirit, and another part I have yet to identify. When I was studying Heidegger in one of my philosophy classes and we were discussion his philosophy of the individual, of "Dasein" -- Authentic, part of "the They", and primordial -- I drew this three-part yin-yang as a visual representation of the idea and I've liked the symbol in a spiritual nature ever since. At the time I thought I came up with it, but silly me, the internet exists! Therefore nothing is new.
Once again, this is Oryon, sitting on one of the triple-spiral standing-stones from Newgrange.
Acrylic on illustration board. 5"x8"
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Oops! Just a thing. You drew the 5th element, the one at the top going anticlockwise (which is the cycle of destruction) instead of clockwise (the cycle of life).
It's like the Swastika. (Used by the nazis it was anticlockwise) but this symbol is found in Tibet and other places in Asia the other way round to portray the cycle of life.
Back to this symbol you draw. It seems to also look like the symbol of the Sinclair templers because they had this "3 drops" going anticlockwise. In buddhism they use also that "3 drop" symbol clockwise.
Oh it's so late here! Good night! (Until this destruction cycle we are on end! Hope the new one is going to be clockwise.)
It's like the Swastika. (Used by the nazis it was anticlockwise) but this symbol is found in Tibet and other places in Asia the other way round to portray the cycle of life.
Back to this symbol you draw. It seems to also look like the symbol of the Sinclair templers because they had this "3 drops" going anticlockwise. In buddhism they use also that "3 drop" symbol clockwise.
Oh it's so late here! Good night! (Until this destruction cycle we are on end! Hope the new one is going to be clockwise.)