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Playing Card Art: Pin-Up Playing Cards by Fay Dalton

Fay Dalton is a London-based freelance illustrator, the winner of the 2010 Pickled ink Award. She combines traditional drawing and painting methods with digital painting using Photoshop to achieve Vintage stylised Illustrations. Fay’s works are incredibly detailed and boast a vintage quality, reminiscent of 1950’s Mills and Boon novels and the infamous Coca-Cola adverts.

These are her Pin-Up playing card queens made in her distinctive style. It’s nice to see some “classic” Pin-Up playing card artworks these days. These can be nice queens for some Pin-Up transformation playing card deck.

© Fay Dalton 2014

Pin-Up Playing Cards by Fay Dalton: The Queen of Spades

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Posted by Collector on 06.03.2015 in Pin-Up, Playing Card Art, The Queen of Hearts, The Queen of Spades

Tags: art, cartas de baralho, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, The Queen of Hearts, The Queen of Spades

Bēhance: Citrus and Christian Mythology Playing Cards by Ana Zuniga

05 Mar

Sometimes artists in their search of various artistic forms and senses try to cross completely different things. Here is an example of this. A Costa Rican artist, Ana Zuniga, crossed her vision of Christian Mythology with… citrus plants.

It’s clear that stained-glass windows are strongly associated by her with Christian Mythology. I subjectively can’t say that these court cards unambiguously reflect Christian Mythology because this isn’t the first thing the pictures make me think about. But they definitely are pleasant artworks reflecting the art of stained-glass windows. She nicely incorporated signs of citrus plants into the design of the playing card artworks. Unfortunately, all court cards are almost the same – only “black” and “red” suits are indicated by main green / light-green and orange colours – lime and tangerine with notes of lemon.

These artworks were her academic work. Playing card has the bridge size. The deck hasn’t been produced.

© Ana Zuniga 2014

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Posted by Collector on 05.03.2015 in Behance, Playing Card Art

Tags: art, トランプ, cartas de baralho, cartes à jouer, citrus, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, stained-glass windows, 撲克牌

2015 [week 8] – Upcoming Decks

03 Mar

Joker and the Thief Playing Cards [March 20th, 2015]

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Posted by Collector on 03.03.2015 in Upcoming Decks

Tags: トランプ, cartas de baralho, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, Expert Playing Card Company, Joker and the Thief, Kickstarter, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, 撲克牌

Contest: Pics/Vids Of Expert Playing Card Co. Cards on Instagram

02 Mar

The Conjuring Arts Research Center (CARC) has a special Instagram contest for appropriate followers of the Expert Playing Card Company (EPCC) on Instagram. The prizes – Blaine Microsoft deck for two possible winners.

Conditions:

Follow @ExpertPCC (EPCC on Instagram);
Post pictures or videos of any deck produced by EPCC;
Photos must be tagged both #ExpertPCC and @ExpertPCC

CARC will decide about winners based on a combination of three factors: 1) best pictures/videos; 2) most pics/vids posted; 3) most cumulative likes.

Winners will be announced on March 4th, 2015.

Good luck!

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Posted by Collector on 02.03.2015 in Post (Information) Update

Tags: トランプ, Blaine Microsoft playing cards, cartas de baralho, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, contest, игральные карты, Expert Playing Card Company, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, The Conjuring Arts Research Center, 撲克牌

Giveaway: Black Delirium Joker and Book from Thirdway Industries

01 Mar

This is another contest from Thirdway Industries (Giovanni Meroni). You can win the Delirium Black Joker and the Signed Delirium Realm Book.

Conditions:

Like their Facebook page;
Share (Public) the Facebook post;
Comment the Facebook post (~~quoting of Carlo Collodi is preferable~~).
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