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Published: 2006-03-17 03:49:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 24698; Favourites: 733; Downloads: 2741
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Tarot. For more information about the deck and to see the rest of the cards:[link]
Three of Pentacles - Teamwork, functioning as a unit together, competence, achieving beyond
the expected.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 8.5x14 inches
Prints: [link]
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Comments: 59
ohhhhhhhhhh absolutely awesome, precious.......... the strong expression is wonder!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hec! I should jjust add your whole gallery to my favorites list!!!
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I like your colors on this one a great deal, especially the gold being a little more intense. If there's a flaw in some of these extraordinary works it's not enough variety in the color palette and intensity, too much pale blue or what have you. The little touches of stronger gold here adds so much drama to the image. Kudos
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oh wow.... this is amazing!!! i am blown away
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once again, you do stone so well. i like the idea of the woman drawing the symbols seemingly effortlessly on what's supposed to be unchanging stone. the lilac tint of the characters makes them seem slightly ghostlike. the green lizard seems a little out of place. i love the color he brings to the image, but from the way he's positioned i'm confused as to if he's clinging to the wall or being supported in part by the shoulder of the man. a good addition to what will be a beautiful deck.
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Very cool! I like the use of watercolors in this image.
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Oohhh lovely as usual.
I'm just curious, where are you getting your descriptions? Are you making them up (as in from putting together all the various meanings from various decks) or are you putting a specific description from a specific source. I've been wondering this since you've actuall started the entire series.
And I love how you're using lizards for the earth symbol.
~CIndy
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Basing it from the Waite-Rider deck.
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Ooohhh I see! Thanks! Mystery solved!
~Cindy
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It's always a joy to see your tarot designs.
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Hmmm. I have to disagree with a few of the comments above. The first thing I saw in this piece were the 3 pentacles...then my eye moved to the figures below. I don't think the lizard is distracting..the green in the center pentacle balances that out nicely. I think this is grand. Would work well as a print too...as would the rest of the deck we have seen
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The more of these I see, the more I love your interpretations!
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That is a pretty rendition of this card, very simple and clean; I like it alot.
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Beautiful!! I really love how you use colors and how you do backgrounds!
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i really love the way you use the watercolors-.. i cant understand how someone can paint like that with them! youยดve managed to keep your painitngs light and beautiful, i never manage to do that! how much time does it take to paint a picture like that?
and do you have some tutorials or something showing how you paint?especially that background looks fascinating and i always wonder how you paint it..
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Bottom of this page you will find several tutorial links: [link]
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thank you so much! maybe iยดll learn something useful myself!
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I love theway you keep the same theme for each suite... not many decks have that type of continuity...
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you really have a beautiful deck. if you're going to publish it, consider putting only symbols and numbers on it...no names even on majors. i found one such deck and was delighted because i think names take off the meaning of the cards and when there are none enables you to look deep into them and feel what they mean to you.
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Hm, interesting suggestion. I had been trying to decide how to do the borders as I hadn't really left much room on the images for text to fit.
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no need for borders either, for your cards...if you ask me. they are so delicate and framing them, i don't know... it took me a long time to find great deck, and just as i was about to buy something that is nice but had titles in 4 languages (how annoying) i came across the secret forest deck. that one is dobule sided - colour and b/w, sides slightly different nut just desatureated copy. and they ony have arabic numbers or different crowns/symbols for court cards and roman numbers for majors. i just love them. i wish more decks were like that because now i know what was bothering me. and i don't like the usual symbology, i like "odd" ones
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Well thanks for the ideas! I think I probably will be going for a more minimal approach with the numbers/symbols.
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one more question: do you see swords as fire and wands as air or the other way around?
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heh, most people do...i'm just weird then
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Actually I saw it initially the other way, but when I researched I found that is was usually depicted the flip. Although now I'm wishing I went with my gut feeling from the start, but I can see it as either.
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I wonder if you know Michael Whelan ( [link] ) : your works have the same light - but - strong feeling and a similar use of symbolism.
As for this picture, I really like how well balanced yet dynamic it is!
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I like the "set in stone" feel - but I think the pentacles need to be a bit more obvious to get the full idea.
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Ooo, beautiful... This one was always one of my favorite cards. I'd have to say it's not quite what I expected it to look like, but that's really not a bad thing at all. Didn't expect it to, but it even still has about the same message although it looks so different than the card I have, it's just not as blatant about it. It's understated, and makes you kind of look at it a few times, and graceful because it's so simple. The soft gray/purple color makes them look a little like statues, I wonder if that was what you were going for? I love how she's just drawing with in the stone wall with her finger, making it look all effortless 
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wow really beautiful
i love the colors, makes it really delicate and soft
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Wow, another one already? Do you work on a few at a time? Or are you just posting them all up in groups?
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I actually finished the Three of Wands a couple days earlier but didn't get around to posting it until yesterday. Finished this one about 3 days later.
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Wow. Still, even three days is a lot faster than I'd expect, holy cow. And these are all so beautiful, too. They have an interesting, almost ethereal quality, I think, maybe because of the subject and colors.
They really are beautiful.
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as always a beautiful work. I find it very sensual and gentle at the same time.
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Wow, those pentacles look so graceful compared to my tarot decks! Beautiful texture, and I love your colors as always.
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great symbolism as always...
I really like the more simplistic approach you've taken with the past couple pieces. There's not as much going on in the pic, which draws my eye more to the subject matter. Good harmony between your foreground/subject and the background is hard to accomplish and I think you have something going here.
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not that NOTHING is going on. It's detailed, but in a subtle way, and I like that.
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