Guardian
Hand-painted acrylic artwork from artist's graduation series.
creator unknown
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The record
Guardian Tarot is an innovative self-published deck from creator Jeff Minkevic. Jeff is a Canadian artist who painted all 78 paintings as an art school graduation project. According to an Aeclectic Tarot Forum posting, he says: Each one was done 32"x40" on foamcore using acrylic paint, with no visual references whatsoever...just completely out of my head, something I have always struggled with. The symbolism is drawn from classic Waite, but leans towards interpretation on occasion 1400 hours worth of painting, 1200 hours of pre-production (scanning, Photoshop, retouching and color correction) and hundreds of hours I haven't counted manually trimming the corners, sorting cards, and putting everything together. This is not a deck you are going to like (unless you like decks really dark), but you should buy it anyway. This deck has a lot important to say to you, so read past the flaws I outline below. POOR INITIAL IMPRESSIONS Guardian Tarot gives a poor initial impression -- the cards are on really flimsy stock and the included tarot bag (a good idea in theory) is of such cheesy fake leather that it would be insulting to put a Tarot deck in it. From a packaging point of view, I see wh
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