#tarotcard

[dorywhynot]

"XVI (The Tower)" 8x16", Watercolor. 2025

On view now at Vakarie Gallery, for "Arcana: Painting the Fates," a Tarot themed group show

Original Artwork available for purchase

Prints

The Tower is a notoriously negative card, but the more I learn about tarot the less I believe in starkly positive or negative meanings. The Tower symbolizes challenges, difficult ones, like....the kind of challenges that leave you back at square one. But challenges in my mind mean change. Getting knocked down means you have to do something different when you try again, whether that is putting more care and effort into the techniques used before, or trying something new entirely.

Some of you know by now that I've been having an issue with my spine/sacrum for a few years now - while I'm able to carry out my days normally-ish now it has left me with chronic pain that I'm still hoping will heal. It's affected the way I work, the way I relax, the type of exercise that I can do...Pretty much everything part of a routine that I worked hard to build has had to be altered in some way. It's a journey I'm still on and frustrated by. I'm not fully convinced that the diagnosis I received is the entirety of the issue. I also think a part of it isn't a diagnosis thing at all, I'm just getting older.

The spine is the center. It connects the brain to the body, and serves as the conduit for every message between them. It's the foundation for our anatomical hardware and software.

So, is this a personal piece?....Who's to say.

Full painting process documentation of this piece is included in this month's Artist's Notebook PDF, over on patreon.

[lunegrimm]

Another older tarot card commission "Temperance"

I always loved the colours on this one 🌠

[hr-bananabird]

omg I forgot to post these... My part of an art trade with VegaTKG!

[covensandchivalry]

Are you interested in joining and/or supporting our tarot deck and accompanying book featuring stories and artwork of witches and knights? Make sure to fill out our interest check! The form is closing soon! 🖤

[kit-chroma]

The World is the final card of the Major Arcana and stands for, surprise, completion and accomplishment!

Every ending means a new beginning, so I thought that an animal doing some kind of annual migration might be fitting. This deck features too many cats and hoofers, so I tried to put in some really rare species (in furry terms), too. Glad I managed to get some other non-mammal in: a sockeye salmon in full migration mode (the other non-mammals being a praying mantis, a cobra and an arachnid).

I started the Major Arcana when I had a purely home-office job where I could draw while working. Then I got (and still have) a neat office job with 9 hours a day plus commuting, so… this project took way too long. I don't think anyone cared, lol. Might be a general thing, I'm getting almost no resonance to my art at all anymore… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That's all for the tarot. I won't draw any of the four suits. Because if I have to draw the card border one more time, someone will perish.

Watercolors 2026

[idrawstuff]

[lilgreenfox]

「XVII - THE STAR 」💫🗻🔫 [commission]

[dragonkitten555]

The Strength XI

Feat: Cady