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Playing Card Art: Pin-Up Joker by Paul Green
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
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
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 