ArtFire

4x6" multicolor woodcut print. a plank of wood (plate) is carved for each color in a print. this print required 5 plates.



this is a working proof, it is a test print done to test colors and make sure the registration was correct. each proof is different as proofs are done to see where color changes and corrections are to be made before printing an edition of identical prints.





the priestess is the 3rd in a series of prints based on the day of the dead and the tarot's major arcana. this is a series i'm doing for my master's degree thesis project

from Wikipedia: The High Priestess (II) is the second trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination. In the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck, upon which many modern decks are based, The High Priestess wears plain blue robes and sits with her hands in her lap. She has a lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem centering a globe on her head and a large cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands, partly covered by her mantle, bears the word TORA. She is seated between the white and black pillars--'J' and 'B' for Jachin and Boaz--of the mystic Temple of Solomon. The veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palm leaves and pomegranates. [1] Further behind all of that is what seems to be a body of water, most probably the sea.

paper, ink