Alright, buckle up, ’cause I’m about to spill the beans on my latest art-meets-tarot adventure: “the artist tarot card”! It was a wild ride, let me tell ya.
It all kicked off with me staring blankly at a canvas, totally blocked. You know that feeling? I was itching to create something, anything, but my brain was a desert. That’s when I remembered my dusty tarot deck tucked away in a drawer. I thought, “Why not? Maybe the cards can shake things up a bit.”
So, I grabbed the deck, shuffled it like a pro (or at least tried to), and pulled a card. Bam! The Page of Wands. Okay, cool. Inspiration, new ideas, limitless potential… but what the heck does that mean in terms of actual art? I wasn’t sure.
First thing I did was dive into the imagery. The Page is usually depicted as this young, energetic dude holding a wand. I was thinking, “Okay, energy. Youth. Passion.” So I sketched a bunch of really rough ideas, just letting my hand move without thinking too much. Lots of quick lines, scribbles, you name it. Just trying to capture that feeling of raw potential.
Next, I tried to ground that energy. Limitless potential can be overwhelming, right? I decided to focus on the “new ideas” aspect. I dug through my old sketchbooks, looking for forgotten concepts, half-finished drawings, anything that sparked a little something. Found this old sketch of a weird, geometric bird thing. Perfect!
Time to get messy. I took that bird sketch and blew it up, printed it out, and just started layering stuff on top. Paint, collage, charcoal… whatever I could get my hands on. I was really trying to channel that Page of Wands energy – that sense of exploration and experimentation. I even threw some glitter in there, ’cause why not?
It looked like a total disaster at first. A chaotic mess of colors and textures. But I kept going, kept layering, kept tweaking. Slowly, but surely, something started to emerge. The bird became less geometric, more organic. The colors started to harmonize. It was still messy, but it was my mess.
- I added some gold leaf to highlight certain areas, giving it a touch of… well, magic.
- Then, I used some oil pastels to add depth and shadow.
- Finally, I splattered some ink across the whole thing, just to add a bit of chaos back in.
It took a few days, maybe a week, of just messing around with it. Adding, subtracting, tweaking, questioning everything. There were definitely moments where I wanted to throw the whole thing in the trash. But I kept reminding myself of the Page of Wands – that promise of potential, that invitation to explore. And I pushed through.
And in the end? I actually kinda dig it. It’s not perfect, not by a long shot. It’s raw, it’s messy, it’s a little bit weird. But it feels… alive. It feels like it captures that initial spark of inspiration, that sense of limitless possibility. I call it “Wand Bird”.
Final Thoughts
So, yeah, that’s how I turned a tarot card into a piece of art. It wasn’t a straightforward process, and there were plenty of bumps along the way. But it was a fun, and it definitely helped me break through that creative block. If you’re ever feeling stuck, give it a try! You might be surprised at what you create.
