I just love Tarot cards… somehow the fortune telling imagery seems to be link to my style of illustration. There is something magical and mysterious about it all. So I decided to participate in a challenge from a Blog called Collage Obsession Challenge. The theme is about Fate, Fortune, luck: the Fortune Wheel card of the Tarot.
Fortune is a mystery… we all want it, but we are often unsure how to get there. Is this pure luck? Faith? Is this our own will? What is turning that wheel? Strangely the theme for IF this week is Surrender… I think there is a link there. Maybe if we surrender, fortune will come our way.
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J’adore les cartes du Tarot. Je trouve qu’il y a un certain lien avec les images et symboles du Tarot et mon style d’illustration. Quelque chose entre la magie et le mystère. Voilà pourquoi j’ai décidé de participer à un “challenge” sur le site “Collage obsession challenge”. Le thème était la Roue de Fortune. J’y ai ajouté quelques éléments qui représente la chance.
Et j’ai joué avec l’idée première de cette carte de Tarot… on se demande toujours qui tourne notre roue de fortune. Est-ce de la chance? Est-ce nous? Bref il y avait aussi un lien avec le sujet d’Illustration Friday de cette semaine: Surrender. Je pense qu’il faut lâcher prise, et ainsi la vie s’occupe de tourner la roue dans le bon sens.
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This is wonderful.
Great imagery. I love that with just a simple counter-clockwise turn of the crank-shaft, the monkey can make the royal griffin fall from its perch and bring the now struggling hanger-on to the top.
What a beautiful metaphor. Really nice work.
Sorry, I guess it is more of a sphinx. Forgive my lack of exactness in categorizing beasts of antiquity!
yes , a sphinx with her beautiful face sitting quietly on the top of the Fortune Wheel…. will she be rewarded?
Nice illustration.
Hi Rubin!! Actually you are pretty close since it is a Lion-eagle-sphinx-girl mix… so really it’s all good what you saw!!
Thank you for your comments, I stopped by your blog again and it’s so inspiring. Wish I could sketch as good as you.
Isabelle, I am soooo pleased that you have contibuted to this Challenge… and WHAT an image it is!!! your work blows my mind…just purely amazing!!
I do hope that you will be able to be in other challenges that we host.
Great work,
Glenys
Fabulous work! Thank you so much for joining us this week. We hope you’ll be back again & again!
great image
Excellent illustration of the Fortune Wheel. I’d like to see the other cards now!
I don’t trust “fortune’s wheel”–because it IS a wheel, and it does turn. I find this illustration disturbing, but that’s no doubt a good thing. The beings are frightening, not what we see everyday, and the whole thing is lush with color. Beautiful!
Excellent! Exquisite piece!
Excellent work!!!
Love it!
Is the monkey turning the wheel part of the “standard” iconography?
Paolo, the monkey was part of the original iconography, but was on the wheel (often on the left, going down), on another tarot deck, there was a woman blindfolded (Justice?) turning the wheel. I found it amusing to have the monkey turning that wheel. The bat is never on that card, but in Chinese folklore bats are a symbol of good fortune and luck. The animals on that card are always dressed as human, so that was fun!! :–)
And again… thank you all for the wonderful comments on this blog. I feel so blessed that you take the time to visit and leave a note on my blog/site. I try to visit each of your sites and it makes me discover so many wonderful illustrators.
Fantastic! love this piece so very much!
your work is amazing!
Another amazing one. Would love to see the whole deck in your style.
this is pretty amazing, oh how do you do this???
and i agree with you that there is something magical and mysterious about it all which i really like.
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