Coronavirus Mini-Canvas Challenge 1

On 1 January 2020, I did a tarot reading for myself for the year. The deck I chose from my collection of tarot cards was Deborah Blake’s Everyday Witch Tarot with illustrations by Elisabeth Alba.

This is the card I picked, the Page of Cups.

It didn’t predict anything about the coronavirus, but the guidebook to the Everyday Witch Tarot recommended focusing on creativity and embracing the new, while warning not to run from one enthusiasm to another.

At the time I thought about taking the image on the card literally and starting painting again after a long time of neglect, but I didn’t follow the suggestion.

When Australia went into coronavirus lockdown without any end in sight, I remembered the Page of Cups reading. I decided to create the Coronavirus Mini-Canvas Challenge.

I already had three mini canvas panels, 12.7cm x 17.8cm, in a drawer that I’d ignored for eighteen months. I promptly bought 45 more online, to create a stash of 48.

The aim of the Coronavirus Mini-Canvas Challenge is to paint one mini-canvas per week until the lockdown ends. I hope I stick to my challenge and that I don’t have to use up all 48 canvases or buy more.

This is Coronavirus Mini-Canvas Challenge 1.

Here are some interesting versions I created using Picassa3.

A few days ago I did another reading using the Everyday Witch Tarot and I drew the Page of Cups card again, making me feel like I was on the right track.

It’s taken the coronavirus to get me painting again.