Paul Green is a comic artist. He designed this Pin-Up Harlequin Joker for one of two Joker Cards featuring in a Game App by Megu. This is a coloured sketch.
© Paul Green 2015
Pin-Up Harlequin Joker
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DeviantART: Melancholia Queen of Hearts by Jon Wesley Huff
This Queen of Hearts was designed by an American artist, Jon Wesley Huff (JonWes). It’s inspired by Lars Von Trier’s film, Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Cameron Spurr, and Kiefer Sutherland. The film was presented 18 May 2011 at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Dunst (Justine) received the festival’s Best Actress Award.
Melancholia consists of two parts: “Justine” and “Claire”. These are names of two sisters, main heroines of the film. The story revolves around them during and shortly after Justine’s wedding, while an approaching rogue planet is about to collide with Earth.
Trier’s initial inspiration for this film came from a depressive period he suffered and the insight that depressed people remain peaceful in catastrophic events.
© Jon Wesley Huff (JonWes) 2012
The Queen of Hearts
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
Bēhance: Citrus and Christian Mythology Playing Cards by Ana Zuniga
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
Giveaway: No. 17 Decks from Stockholm17
Lorenzo Gaggiotti (Stockholm17) has a giveaway for his Instagram followers. Three simple steps to participate:
Slay the nine-headed Lernaean HydraRegister on Instagram;Capture the Erymanthian BoarFollow @Stockholm17 ;Capture and bring back CerberusRepost this image with the hashtag #No17Kickstarter .
“The 3 winners will get One Bicycle Branded and One Unbranded deck (when delivery starts in June/July2015). If the winner is also a backer of the Kickstarter campaign, the prize doubles (link in my bio). Requirements to participate: the profile must be open, no fake account made only for giveaway, only one repost per person. The 3 winners will be drawn on Monday 2nd of March.” ~ Lorenzo Gaggiotti
By the way, his unbranded No. 17 deck has been unlocked on Kickstarter – look at the deck, it can be interesting for you.
Good luck!
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 