Temperance - an attempt to find some more patience

There’s something to be said about this collection of images. Other than driving me mad with simply too many options, the representations of water necessary to execute a believable Temperance (who doesn’t look as though they’re caught in a tempest) - (though; that would be fun) -are tricky to nail down.

Now that I’ve written an incredibly long and confusing sentence structure, let me get back to ushering in a critique of potential pieces of art work for the Temperance tarot card, for the second time.

At least I will learn patience and its associated words.

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A broad thumbnail selection. They look pretty nice. Let me see if the ones that catch my eye are any good.

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Representation of two distinct chalices are an important element of the Temperance tarot card. This one has a single, but there’s a body of water, which is another one of the important elements of the image itself. There’s a strange angel / devil sitting on the shoulder, which if you want to get into really deep meanings of things, might represent the choices you have to make.

While the facial structure and other general parts of the image are coherent and acceptable, the part that isn’t are again, yet again, the hands.

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This image is a bit of a disaster when it comes to facial expressions and the way in which they are represented. It looks very Goya. The water; on the other hand; does not look like Goya at all, the way it rises up in wisps is truly remarkable and exceptional. But overall, not a suitable image.

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This next image is a fairly whimsical representation of two individuals intertwined by their robes. There’s a vessel levitating in mid air, apparently fueled by a leaking tumbler. The image looks very graceful and angelic at a glance, but when you look more closely, you see a foot which is a hand, some faces that are not well rendered, and other bizarre anatomical anomalies that simply do. not befit the design of a Temperance tarot card.

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This is an image that I like a great deal. The hands are rendered incredibly well. The gown is stunning, and the figure depicted is gorgeous. She’s lacking some facial details to make it completely coherent, and the imperfect stone chalice, being missed (or leaking) from the flow of water in the handheld glass chalice is really well rendered conceptually.

I also particularly enjoy the fact that the gown transforms to water, or what could be considered glass, snaking around the back of the figure representing Temperance. This image is amazing, and is definitely on the final list for a completed image.

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And now the final image that I will be examining today. This one is great when it comes to the representation of the gown; and the water; but misses exactly each and every other element. Here, instead of being whole, the Chalice is shattered in the hands of Temperance, and water cascades toward the floor.

While today’s examinations of images have seen some interesting and varied results; the next step is to consider more before settling on a final, because; again - yet again, I’ve created too many damn images!


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I especially like the first image is a good representation. The only thing I would do without is the angel/demon that distorts the image a bit.

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