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Original post: Divination by cat with Leptailurus’s 'Savage Divination' tarot
Through the long, dark teatime of the soul that is FurAffinity haitus, there’s been a couple of bright points, two beautiful kickstarters opening up. One of which is exceptionally pretty but not actually furry, so just a few words on it. Then a tarot deck that I’ve been looking forward to for months, and may need to keep looking forward to for years.
And then a bunch of other stuff.
Highlights
Cut Paper Art Calendar
I feel a little like second-one-come-first, and I’m reconciled to this, because today’s really about Leptailurus. But cut-paper artist Patrick Gannon‘s calendar project, in all probability the third of a series of cut-paper calendar kickstarters by Mr. Gannon, seems a graceful accompaniment to Leptailurus’s curves and cats, well worth a callout even though they aren’t that furry. Besides, I can use them to count the days until I get my tarot deck. I hope he crowdfunds a 2015 model!
Gannon’s Cut Paper Art Calendar is a 13-image beast, thick with beasties from the Chinese Zodiac and strange creatures that seem to have escaped from one of Miyazaki’s lesser-known fantasies. His lines are graceful curves, jagged predatory barbs, conveying danger, speed, solidity, mystery–even in the shapes of the paper cuts themselves. Elegant, intricate, amazing. You can check out Gannon’s paper-cut blog, “Papercuts,” for more of his work, some of it is simply indescribable. But for now, glance over the calendar and be a part of that project.
Savage Divination: A Bestial Tarot
Full disclosure: This tarot deck kickstarter has to succeed so that I get my backer reward. I really love Tarot decks. So many fantasy-inspired artists get the tarot deck bug. For a certain type of artist, the tarot deck is like performing Hamlet, it’s a bucket-list item. 78 images, with history haunting the occult circles of the Victorian age, rife with alchemical imagery, teasing hints of Egypt, of moral plays, religious doctrine…and hey, it’s got wolves, lions, and horses. So high furry interest right there.
Playing with a rich symbol set–heavy with expectations from the Rider-Waite tarot deck seen in dozens of horror movies, and on the flip side, interpreted by literally thousands of artists, you could go any direction. And 78 cards isn’t just a lot of individual pieces of art, it’s metaphorically a journey, from bumbling newbie to sage, with every stage of life between.
A great many art tarot decks stop with the major arcana, picking up “Death” and “The Magician” but skipping the “Four of Wands.” That does cut down on the number, but leaves out some compelling images–so it’s exciting that Leptailurus is courting the entire deck, major arcana, “pip” cards, and all. Animal symbolism trumps standard Tarot imagery–the typical urban imagery of the Ten of Pentacles is transformed into a radiant peacock, but there’s still echoes (the peacock is sitting under an arched window, a nod to its architectural heritage.
Leptailurus’s work is luminous, rich colors glowing under the majestic lion Empress, fire flickering in the torch held by the coyote Ace of Wands, but she can capture the austere loneliness of the Hermit, too, an old soul at the end of the journey. Tanuki fans will get a kick out of the king of cups, a raccoon dog tippling with bottles and bottles of sake!
Granted, 78 images is a big pile of paintings, and backers are going to have to settle in for a long wait (not an unreasonable wait, just a long one!). But backers will get access to the Savage Divinations art blog, and it’s very hard not to steal images from it, because the semi-completed “hermit” is adorable, somber and delicate and still, somehow, hinting at a smile.
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New Projects This Week:
♥♥ =favorites/exceptionally furry content
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Children's Products
Rabbit Ninja (Ends: 10/19/2013)
A children's book about great things: rabbits and ninjas. Oh, and life as a 3rd grader.
Art
♥♥ Savage Divination: A Bestial Tarot (Ends: 10/13/2013)
Ambitious full tarot deck loaded with animal imagery by Leptailurus
Tabletop Games
Hockey Doggies (Ends: 10/17/2013)
A semi-educational board game putting huskies on the ice.
Sadly, from what our friends at the International Anthropomorphic Research Project tell us, anything at the intersection of "furries" and "sports" is doomed to failure…
Events
♥♥ F3 Con Remixed (Ends: 11/10/2013)
Fundraising for Missouri's F3 furry con, with an 80s theme this year.
Toys
Dicke Katze and Friends Plush Cats (Ends: 10/9/2013)
Plush cats, very round and very startled.
…Coming Soon?
♥♥ Anatilia MMORPG (Not yet launched)
A Furry-focused fantasy MMORPG in progress.
…Just For Fun
Cut Paper Art Calendar (Ends: 10/7/2013)
12 months of graceful cut-paper images with a strong Asian feel. Not really furry, but attractive and LOTS of animal and dragon imagery.
Half-Cat: A Partial History (Ends: 10/11/2013)
From the "fun with photoshop" file, a historical spoof about strange, mutant half-cats…
Through the long, dark teatime of the soul that is FurAffinity haitus, there’s been a couple of bright points, two beautiful kickstarters opening up. One of which is exceptionally pretty but not actually furry, so just a few words on it. Then a tarot deck that I’ve been looking forward to for months, and may need to keep looking forward to for years.
And then a bunch of other stuff.
Highlights
Cut Paper Art Calendar
I feel a little like second-one-come-first, and I’m reconciled to this, because today’s really about Leptailurus. But cut-paper artist Patrick Gannon‘s calendar project, in all probability the third of a series of cut-paper calendar kickstarters by Mr. Gannon, seems a graceful accompaniment to Leptailurus’s curves and cats, well worth a callout even though they aren’t that furry. Besides, I can use them to count the days until I get my tarot deck. I hope he crowdfunds a 2015 model!
Gannon’s Cut Paper Art Calendar is a 13-image beast, thick with beasties from the Chinese Zodiac and strange creatures that seem to have escaped from one of Miyazaki’s lesser-known fantasies. His lines are graceful curves, jagged predatory barbs, conveying danger, speed, solidity, mystery–even in the shapes of the paper cuts themselves. Elegant, intricate, amazing. You can check out Gannon’s paper-cut blog, “Papercuts,” for more of his work, some of it is simply indescribable. But for now, glance over the calendar and be a part of that project.
Savage Divination: A Bestial Tarot
Full disclosure: This tarot deck kickstarter has to succeed so that I get my backer reward. I really love Tarot decks. So many fantasy-inspired artists get the tarot deck bug. For a certain type of artist, the tarot deck is like performing Hamlet, it’s a bucket-list item. 78 images, with history haunting the occult circles of the Victorian age, rife with alchemical imagery, teasing hints of Egypt, of moral plays, religious doctrine…and hey, it’s got wolves, lions, and horses. So high furry interest right there.
Playing with a rich symbol set–heavy with expectations from the Rider-Waite tarot deck seen in dozens of horror movies, and on the flip side, interpreted by literally thousands of artists, you could go any direction. And 78 cards isn’t just a lot of individual pieces of art, it’s metaphorically a journey, from bumbling newbie to sage, with every stage of life between.
A great many art tarot decks stop with the major arcana, picking up “Death” and “The Magician” but skipping the “Four of Wands.” That does cut down on the number, but leaves out some compelling images–so it’s exciting that Leptailurus is courting the entire deck, major arcana, “pip” cards, and all. Animal symbolism trumps standard Tarot imagery–the typical urban imagery of the Ten of Pentacles is transformed into a radiant peacock, but there’s still echoes (the peacock is sitting under an arched window, a nod to its architectural heritage.
Leptailurus’s work is luminous, rich colors glowing under the majestic lion Empress, fire flickering in the torch held by the coyote Ace of Wands, but she can capture the austere loneliness of the Hermit, too, an old soul at the end of the journey. Tanuki fans will get a kick out of the king of cups, a raccoon dog tippling with bottles and bottles of sake!
Granted, 78 images is a big pile of paintings, and backers are going to have to settle in for a long wait (not an unreasonable wait, just a long one!). But backers will get access to the Savage Divinations art blog, and it’s very hard not to steal images from it, because the semi-completed “hermit” is adorable, somber and delicate and still, somehow, hinting at a smile.
---
New Projects This Week:
♥♥ =favorites/exceptionally furry content
---
Children's Products
Rabbit Ninja (Ends: 10/19/2013)
A children's book about great things: rabbits and ninjas. Oh, and life as a 3rd grader.
Art
♥♥ Savage Divination: A Bestial Tarot (Ends: 10/13/2013)
Ambitious full tarot deck loaded with animal imagery by Leptailurus
Tabletop Games
Hockey Doggies (Ends: 10/17/2013)
A semi-educational board game putting huskies on the ice.
Sadly, from what our friends at the International Anthropomorphic Research Project tell us, anything at the intersection of "furries" and "sports" is doomed to failure…
Events
♥♥ F3 Con Remixed (Ends: 11/10/2013)
Fundraising for Missouri's F3 furry con, with an 80s theme this year.
Toys
Dicke Katze and Friends Plush Cats (Ends: 10/9/2013)
Plush cats, very round and very startled.
…Coming Soon?
♥♥ Anatilia MMORPG (Not yet launched)
A Furry-focused fantasy MMORPG in progress.
…Just For Fun
Cut Paper Art Calendar (Ends: 10/7/2013)
12 months of graceful cut-paper images with a strong Asian feel. Not really furry, but attractive and LOTS of animal and dragon imagery.
Half-Cat: A Partial History (Ends: 10/11/2013)
From the "fun with photoshop" file, a historical spoof about strange, mutant half-cats…
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