John Littleboy is a San Francisco artist, who has developed his artistic and creative side at the Rhode Island School of Design before graduating from Stanford University. He has had exhibitions of his paintings in New York and Marrakech and has made privately ordered murals and portraits.

		His Mermaid Queen deck is part of a series of four decks.
	John Littleboy started the Inky-Dinky company as a means to sell his art professionally. It made him much more aware of the business side of being an artist and he developed himself as a writer, designer and web marketing strategist. Through this company he also published the Kitten Club deck, the Pack of Dogs and the Bag of Bones deck, all in 2006. A preview?

We've chosen this deck to illustrate John Littleboy's artwork, because it was the most colourful one and his pallet touched the right feeling in each of the suits. This is best illustrated on the Kings. They all represent Poseidon, the ruler of the seas in Greek mythology. In the Clubs suit he's depicted in blue and gray, fierce and ominous as the sea can be. The gray and blue are repeated on the other courts. On the Queen the mermaid is still in stormy weather and the Jack in unstill water.
The Hearts suit uses red and orange colours, which immediately invoke that warm summer beach feeling, and here Poseidon stands joyful and proud in calm blue water. 

		John's artwork emerges from "the tantalizing void", as he calls the blank sheet of paper on which his characters are created in a dialogue between the artist and the image.

As King of Spades Poseidon is literally red of anger for obvious (black) reasons. The red and black are consequently followed on the other courts in this suit. The blue Poseidon in the Diamonds suit seems to represent the mysterious mythical underwater God, in a world where other mythical creatures dwell. Like the mermaids after which the deck is titled. They are definitely the Queens and they are as tempting, desirable and mysterious as any woman can be.
		Each of the 4 decks has different, humorous series of drawings on the pips.

CLICK THE ACES TO SEE THE PIPS  OF THIS DECK

( John was nice enough to sign one of the aces in this deck for us. In fact he signed one of the aces in each of the 4 decks and thus contributed these to our steadily growing sub-collection of artist signed decks)

The deck was printed in China and consists of 52 cards, 1 joker and a title card.

THIS DECK AND THE OTHER THREE CAN BE ORDERED AT JOHN'S WEBSITE........CLICK HERE

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