Color Your Own

The Color Your Own Tarot revives, knowingly or not, the B.O.T.A. tradition this catalog documents: the deck you color yourself as practice, here with Diora Columbia and Echo Chernik's black-and-white RWS-based line art awaiting the reader's palette, select elements pre-inked. Chernik's art nouveau illustration credentials give the line work real elegance; this is a coloring deck drawn by someone whose posters hang framed. What the mystery school assigned as curriculum, the mindfulness era rediscovered as practice: coloring as meditation, and coloring your own arcana as the gentlest possible symbol study, each card's hour of attention teaching its structure wordlessly. The finished deck is also the only truly personalized RWS possible, your palette throughout. It suits mindful colorers, symbol students who learn by hand, B.O.T.A. admirers wanting the practice without the curriculum, art teachers, and gift-buyers who know someone with good pencils. Completed examples, like colored B.O.T.A.s, become family-personal objects no printing could replace.