Saturday, September 6, 2014

Yes, it’s been awhile, and I should be writing something else, but I thought it was about time that I updated everything.  I don’t know how people who blog regularly get anything else done.







So here’s Horus, and Horus is part of a new project, The Promethean Oracle.  This is yet again an oracle deck, but this time its focus is male energies (this does not mean women can’t use it).
I’m drawing (literally) from a range of characters:  historical, mythical, and Biblical (yes, Biblical), and limiting the origin of the subject matter to Ancient Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, and the Bible.






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Agamemnon.  A rat bastard if ever there was one.
Instead of watercolors on huge pieces of paper, these images are a more manageable size (8.5 X 11”) and are rendered in colored pencil.
I’m having a lot of fun with the imagery.  I’ve always wanted to do something with historical masks like this one (wait till you’ve seen Sargon!) and never really had the excuse. 
I’ll have to publish the proposal, now that it’s been ACCEPTED!!!






Good old Set, you know he's up to something.

This project came about as the result of me noticing that while there are oodles of Goddess based tarot and oracle decks, there is precious little depicting male archetypes or energies.  In fact, the only deck I could find was an oracle called Gods and Heroes, and that featured idealized bodybuilders.

Uh huh.

Because I don't have enough to do in my life, I prepared a pitch and sent it in to my publisher, Schiffer Publishing ( www.schifferbooks.com ) .  I was invited to bring the original art down, so I did, and that very day Mr. Schiffer told me I had a contract.

So off I go, diving into another project!  Stay tuned for news and special items!