Italian artist Gaetano Bellei (1857-1922) dedicated some of his artworks (oil paintings) to playing card gamers. He liked to depict old people for this series of his artworks. Look how masterfully he conveyed emotions of players. I have to think that his choice of old people was not random. As a rule old people are more sincere in their emotions as they left their poker faces in their youth 🙂 I guess that is why these artworks based on Gaetano’s talent look so convincingly.
The Players Choice
The Jack-Queen of Spades designed by Vivian Lee (LadyTempusMori). © 2013 Vivian Lee
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LadyTempusMori’s gallery on DeviantART: http://ladytempusmori.deviantart.com/gallery/
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See other playing card projects on DeviantART (Category: “DeviantART”).
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Disney Villains playing cards designed by Daniel (smallvillereject). He dedicated his playing cards to villains of animated cartoons produced by Disney.
Joker (MR. BOOGIE – The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Aquatic playing cards designed by Nicole Avena – the designer from Florida (United States). This card deck exhibits a mixed abstraction of both realism and collage. While the back of the deck is intended to encourage an ocean, the photographic element of the torn pieces, range from dark to light, from sea bottom to surface. The illustration is then broken up by undulating white lines, acting as the white crest of ocean waves.
She broke the suites up into 4 phylum of sea creatures: Mollusca, Chordates, Cnidarian, and Arthropods. The symbols of the coral, clam barnacle, and puffer fish denote the most basic creatures of each phylum. As the incremental value of the face cards increase, so does the threatening nature of each creature in that phylum.
© 2013 Nicole Avena
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 