Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards tree trunk one color at a time

one color at a time

plus the terrific original box with red

from the primary figures with arms raised

I'm getting more and more into carved wooden objects

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards tree trunk one color at a timeI have no idea if the person who made these really fun tarot cards paintings followed through with making a complete the deck (I would guess not, as the major arcana, of which there are 21 of 22 here just missing The Sun are the most exciting, and what a lot of effort they alone took!) These are closely based on the famous Rider Waite tarot deck, created by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, though the hand and sensibility of their maker is very much