Not unlike The Land tarot, these cards are something I’ve been playing with for a long, long time. Winding walks under the winter day moon, wondering which are the appropriate ideas to capture. Drawings and redrawings. Beginnings and abandonings and recoverings and restartings. Walls papered with words and cards and ways to figure out just how to do this.

So, I worked out the ideal qualities and feelings and events and skills, and mapped them out on the wall. Then I just dove in, started at the start, and drew exactly what it felt like. So, starting at A, and releasing a selection from the first seven cards I’ve created, we have Abundance, Alignment and Bravery.

There’s so much more to come with this deck, but for now… this is the sneak peek, and this is the call to whatever you might need.

Limited days left now to nab these prints, the shop is closing again on Wednesday, May 26, at 5pm Australian time.

Welcome to the inception of The Land!

The idea for a cowgirl/cowboy/cowfolk tarot originally came from a photo shot by Caree Prince, and some chat in the comments about how the image resembled the card, The Hermit.

I have resisted working on a tarot deck for years; simply because it is a huge undertaking to fulfil both major and minor arcana (78 cards, I think?), and also because I am not as familiar with the cards as I would like to be. I have a superficial understanding of most, but not thorough.

However, I love drawing cowboy shit and I love a little mysticism and magic, so I am tentatively embarking on the development of ‘The Land’, a cowgirl tarot. It started with Caree’s Hermit, and I included my two favourite cards from the major arcana to create a triptych. Of course, my own horse Benson features on The Star — my favourite card, my favourite pony.

The idea to restock my shop actually came from the hope that I can raise a little capital to keep me fed and watered while I work away on more cards… So, if you purchase one of these prints during the next week, please know that you’re directly supporting the creation of something that will be really special (I hope!).

Thanks so much for taking an interest, and for keeping the creative fire stoked!

Today I’m taking you on a tour of the ‘Tough & Lucky’ illustration sheet… It came to life as one of the regular Patreon rewards — every two months I create a ‘flash-sheet’ style page of illustrations, and share it as a printable artwork, and as a outline-only colouring sheet.

I really poured a lot of whimsy into this page, and also a tonne of detail! All up, this page took me about a week to complete.

It features a lot of recurring themes from my visual language — winged horses, mud crabs with rambling roses, mushrooms, cacti, naked ladies reclining in a vase of daisies… just the usual.

There’s a few new details in there – a butterfly-winged frog, and a cowgirl rose – which were a nice segue into my old love of taking traditional tattoo imagery and making it into something a little… different.

I love this print for it’s intensity and detail, it’s something you can look at for a long time. Only available for a few more days, here.

Here’s a new little video up on Youtube… the fully narrated version is available for my Patreon subscribers too.