New Soulcollage card: Judgment

[pegkerr]

Judgment - Council Suit
I am the One who has full authority to carefully and impartially weigh the evidence and mete out what is deserved. I am incorruptible and My word is final...unless tempered by mercy.

I'm not perfectly pleased with the design of this one. The scales held by the woman originally held (I think) brussel sprouts or some such similar vegetable, which was not exactly in synch with what I had in mind for the card. So I very carefully cut out the bottoms of the scale pans and substituted a star field (Hubble telescope picture), in the hopes of giving it a sort of cosmic scope. Not sure it entirely works (although it's probably better than brussel sprouts). The pillar behind the woman was left there to obscure another figure behind the scribe, but it partially obscures the central figure's head. I also would prefer to have the judges in the lower left looking in the other direction, over at the woman. Oh well.

I had the description of the tarot card Judgment a little bit in mind (although the card description mentions mercy, which as I understand the traditional card description isn't usually a part of Judgment). If I were following the iconology of some tarot traditions, the heart would be weighed against a feather.

(What do you think of the card?)

The other vexing problem I had with making this card was with the fixative I was trying to use. My beloved StudioTac is no longer being manufactured because the company shut down after Hurricane Sandy. I'm trying to use another dry fixative I picked up at an art store, but it's not nearly as easy to use, and I end up scraping bits of rubber cement-y type glue from the card and from my fingers. Argh.