Every winter Marty Blake teaches a five week illustration Concepts class at Syracuse University. This year the assignment was to design playing cards or Tarot cards: two suits with two face cards and a pip card in each, for a total of six, theme and variation. 

“I illustrated four cards myself, using my cabinet card technique,” says Marty. “It was fun to relearn the meanings of Tarot cards and to reinterpret them. It also made me appreciate how hard so many of the students worked!”