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Published: 2006-06-12 19:10:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 26164; Favourites: 1091; Downloads: 3187
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Tarot. For more information about the deck and to see the rest of the cards: [link]Five of Pentacles - Spiritual poverty, material troubles, insecurity, hard times, neglecting the body's needs, being ostracized and excluded.
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 8.5x14 inches
Prints: [link]
Sketch: [link]
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Comments: 128
I really like your attention to detail. Great render and composition.
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I think his may be my favorite of all your tarot cards to date! The bright colors of the upper corner almost belie the meaning of the card. And that marble is beautiful!
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Woah, so pretty. I wish I was that good at watercolors. =_=;
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It seems to me that the subject of the artwork is the girl, but the brilliance and size of the stained glass, despite having only half of it shown in the image, pushes the girl into the shadows, fantastic way of interpreting the card's meaning. Truly beautiful
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Hi,
I have Featured this Art Work in my journal,
I will remove it, if you want.
Take care
Dee
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This is so amazing! I love your entired gallery!
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I even don't know englis enough to say how Your artwork impresses me.
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the details in all your art are breathtaking. i could look at it for hours and hours. very beautiful. definately +fav & +watch.
-Thorn
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Oh I think this is one of the most beautifull pics in your tarot project! I like the pose
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Wow! I absolutely love this. The window is amazing. I like the swirly bird thing (for lack of a better term) a lot. Every time I scroll back up to look at the picture I notice something that I didn't see before. The little details add so much to your work, which is already amazing. Anyways, another one of your paintings goes to my fav list!
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Great one - as ever 
I really admire your style of interpreting the card's meaning
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Wow... I think this is my favourite card so far that you've done. Keep up the nifty work.
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i love the texture of the colours.
very well done i must say.
:applauds:
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Amazing... as always. I love that butterfly, surrounded by light.
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That is one awesome avatar...
^_^
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Vivant! you captured the feeling of the card perfectly
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Wonderful expression of the sense of isolation that the 5 of Pentacles has!
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beautiful work. I love the stained glass window. 
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Amazing... better than I'd hoped, very beautiful. A wonderful blending of soft and subtle colors with bold. Somehow it does not feel off-balance at all, having some very strong colors and some that are not. The despair of the figure remains clearly evident, and the muted colors chosen for her are most fitting for the meaning of the card as stated. I have worked with stained glass, and the treatment you've given the window is wonderful. Only a very few bits of it would have had to be painted onto the glass, rather than be pieced together like most of it could well be. Love it! Excellent throughout the whole of it.
Stunning work, and I wait eagerly the rest of the set.
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Thank you for the comments about the glass! I've not worked with stained glass myself, but whenever I draw it I try to think of what logically would work, with a few bits of artistic license.
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(smiles, blushing) I'm no expert with glass, but I did learn the basics of how to cut and piece it. A master would be able to piece together most of what you show, but the "floating" pieces, like the reddish heart in the field of gold near the bottom edge of the window would have to be painted on, as also a couple of small circles that are also floating would need to be. It's lovely, and since glass-painting has been part of stained glass for centuries. The stained glass in churces, with the faces of saints are painted on, with the colors baked into the glass. For the ones that could be pieced... the more acute the angle, the more expert you'd need to be to manage to not break the thin finger of glass. Curved pieces that are also thin... would only be possible by an adept.
Like your own work. You are =very= adept.
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Fits how I am feeling right now... at least everything except "spiritual poverty" for the most part.
Great work as always. 
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wondeful, as usual. I love the way you equilibrated the composition with the two circles, but still the girl seems to be secluded.
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What a beautiful image, as always!! The window is so vibrant that it tells the story of the card perfectly - and I like the little addition of the butterfly! 
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wow i really like the darker colors in this piece!
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No word to describe the beauty you've created. And it is watercolor? Amazing... Surely, you are blessed with such talent. I love it and i'll 
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I've had you on watch (that sounds awful) for a long time now but I very rarely comment and I should. I think you produce some of the most beautiful illustration artwork I have seen since the classics of Nielsen, Outhwaite, Rackham and a few others that spring to mind.
I will comment from now on and I have to also say that as soon as the tarot are available I will buy a pack.
Thanks for giving me so much viewing pleasure.
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Wow, thank you for putting me in such company as those masters! I'm glad you are enjoying my art, and if it is silent watching I don't mind either.
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Yeah, I'm sorry about that but I just seem to have so many messages and ....... enough excuses, silent no longer.
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Well it's beautiful, but like you need another peson to tell you that. By now you must know!
I'm looking at the picture and thinking about the meaning and I'm noticing I'm reading some things into it that may and may not be intentional, so I was wondering about them.
Well first off I'd interperate the large colorful sphere as spiritual enlightenment (or whatever term you want to use for such things). I find it a nice tough that the figure is also in the sphere.
But then I notice the animals all coming toward the figure. Not very isolated is she? But she doesn't think of it that way because they're just animals. Actually animals do tend to flock to people when they're feeling like that. Odd isn't it?
Anyways I'm OK with the lizard being going towards her and just being unnoticed. It's outside of her sphere. But the butterfly is actually inside her sphere, close enough to touch. Of course a butterfly has great symbolism of transition and hope and all of that. This butterfly also has the same bright warm colors you see in the sphere. So I could see it as being connected to that sphere, perhaps a symbol of the way to attain that great spiritual place. . . and if that's the case our figure is withing a hand's reach away from the goal, but is too busy moping about to notice,
What did you intend to express with these symbols?
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Yes, you've got it right. The butterfly is often a symbol of the soul or the spirit, and it is within reach of her, if she were to just lift her fingers. But she doesn't notice at all, so caught up in her own inner turmoil.
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