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Halo Quin

~ Author, storyteller, singer-songwriter, witch

Tag Archives: challenge

Faery Cards 1 and 2!

30 Saturday May 2009

Posted by Haloquin in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic

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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, oracle cards, process, project, Stories

I have finished the painting for the first two cards illustrating this story!*

Based on the sketches I made last weekend, I sat in the sunshine and painted these, first the backgrounds with slowly melting wax pastels, then using pens to draw in the detail a few days later.

I’m really pleased with them, although they’ll get some digital tweaking to turn them into useable cards, like neatening up the borders!

Card 1: Earth’s Becoming

Card 2: Earth’s Heartbeat

How are your projects going?

*See here for the initial post announcing this project.

Sketches for My Productive Obsession

23 Saturday May 2009

Posted by Haloquin in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic

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challenge, Faery, Feyhearted path, goal, Magic, oracle cards, process, project, Stories

Leading on from announcing my plans to finally get going on this story-card combo I’ve been promising myself for years, related to this Fey-themed project, I have completed step 1 – the story…

and now, I bring you, step 2!

Sketches based on the story above, planning the images for the cards. There are only 8, because only part of the deck will be based on this story, and I’ve decided that I want to give myself the chance to succeed so I’ve chosen a managable goal!

These are very rough mind… so with that in mind: enjoy!

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Fey Cards Challenge step 1 – The Story

18 Monday May 2009

Posted by Haloquin in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic, Stories

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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, musings, oracle cards, project, Stories

Today I jumped the gun and rewrote my story.

The ideas themselves are not new, but the telling, I hope, is fresh 🙂

My plan is to use the story for the first suit of the deck of Faery oracle cards I’m making (see here for information, and here for the bigger project).

And then the deck will expand…

Enjoy…

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Creative Goal

17 Sunday May 2009

Posted by Haloquin in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery

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beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, goal, inspirations, life, multimedia, musings, Stories, Tarot

Inspired by this post on Collage Diva I am setting myself a goal.

Tomorrow is my final exam, and this week is full of very important things* so I plan to start next week.

In this case… next week, I will be finally getting round to making that deck of cards based on the Fey that has been playing in my mind for the past few years. It will be created using a story as guidance. This is part of my FeyHearted project, and the cards are intended to be beautiful, an act of devotion and oracular. I also intend to write around each topic the cards are about, leading to much musing!

Step 1. Re-write story.

Step 2. Sketch designs.

Step 3. Start drawing/painting/collaging and writing.

Step 4. Scan and Print each card onto ATC size.

Step 5. Put cards into sleeves and play!

Step 6. Celebrate!!!

And, to keep me on track, I plan to share the process, stage by stage, here.

This is a Challenge for me… will you join me in choosing a creative challenge for yourself? Let me know in a comment so we can do this together!

*Like a job interview, birthday parties, end of degree tea parties, actually spending some time with my neglected sweetheart, organising graduation and living over the summer… and so on.

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