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Craig Maher
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Fantasy, Tarot, Imaginative Realism Illustrator
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“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be ... ”
- Robert Frost

Craig Maher - Ornithogonia - Pencil, Digital Color
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
- Epictetus
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Tonight we are under no moon. Full dark. Death.
Tarot of the Vampires from Llewellyn Books.
Externally, pop-culture vampires. Beneath, black night.
#tarot #riderwaite #llewellynbooks
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Last Quarter Moon tonight. The Knight of Swords.
Tarot of the Vampires from Llewellyn Books.
Outwardly, pop-culture vampires. Below, our dark furies.
#tarot #riderwaite #llewellynbooks
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The full(ish) moon last night was covered by rain-clouds. Stay inside and have a drink. The King of Cups.
Tarot of the Vampires from Llewellyn Books.
On the surface, vampires you think you know. Below, a look at your dark side.
#tarot #riderwaite #llewellynbooks
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Under tonight's full moon? The King of Wands.
Tarot of the Vampires from Llewellyn Books.
On the surface, pop-culture vampires. Below, a walk in the shadows.
#tarot
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Books
October 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
- Victor Hugo

The Sun - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #riderwaitesmith #vampire #tarot #thesun #magic
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
- Margaret Wise Brown

Beautiful full moon this weekend!

The Moon - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #riderwaitesmith #vampire #tarot #themoon #magic
August 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
- Sarah Williams

The Star - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampire #tarot #riderwaitesmith #thestar #magic
August 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order ..."
- Eudora Welty

The Tower - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampire #tarot #riderwaitesmith #thetower #magic
July 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
- William Shakespeare
The Devil - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide
#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampire #tarot #riderwaitesmith #thedevil #magic
July 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
- Machado deAssis

Temperance - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampire #tarot #temperance #magic
June 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
- Rollo May

The Hanged Man - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampire #tarot #riderwaitesmith #magic #thehangedman #introspection
June 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Justice - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampires #tarot #riderwaitesmith #magic #justice
June 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wheel of Fortune - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#llewellynworldwide #vampires #tarot #riderwaitesmith #magic
May 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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SOLD
"Hida Sukune" - Legend of the Five Rings - Oil on Illustration Board

Hated to part with this one. One of my earliest commissioned oil paintings. A piece of L5R history!

#shadowsamurai #legendofthefiverings #hero #fantasy #fantasyart #oilpainting #oilillustration #imaginativerealism
May 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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SOLD
Mothusi Rahsaan - Warlord: Saga of the Storm - Oil on Board

#warlord #warlordsagaofthestorm #hero #fantasy #fantasyart #oilpainting #oilillustration #imaginativerealism
May 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.”
- Alan Watts

The Hermit - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#vampires #tarotart #tarot #riderwaitesmith #magic #thehermit
April 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you see this, post a flower.

#art
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
- Albert Camus

Strength - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide

#tarotofthevampires #llewellynworldwide #vampires #tarotart #codexofthevampires #tarot #tarotcollector #newtarotdeck #riderwaitesmith
April 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"... How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
- Emily Dickinson
The Chariot - Tarot of the Vampires - Llewellyn Worldwide
March 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Edelheill the White Knight - Chromata

#fantasy #fantasyart #knight #gold #magic #sunshine
March 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Thanks A. Rivera for reviewing Tarot of the Vampires on your blog. Thanks @elisabethalba.bsky.social‬ for sharing!

"The art is very colorful and detailed. It feels immersive, and it draws you in ... The expressive art can work well for intuitive readers ... well within the RWS system"
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM