The Moon Silky Soft Pullover Hoodie
The Magician Silky Soft Pullover Hoodie
The Moon Lightweight Women’s Racerback Tank
The Devil Lightweight Women’s Racerback Tank
The Magician Lightweight Women’s Racerback Tank
The Magician Silky Soft Unisex T Shirt
The Moon Silky Soft Unisex T Shirt
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Perhaps there’s something you love to do.
This activity, this place, or this recurring moment in your life is special to you.
You know it…way deep down.
But…
You may have found yourself drifting away from it.
You’ve been too busy. Or possibly distracted.
And now, with your cards in hand, you’ve decided to get back to what’s important.
So ask your cards:
“How can I revitalize myself and get back to doing what I love?”
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It may be that you already possess all the ingredients in life required for you to be happy.
You might have all the skills, the knowledge, the passion, and the people you need.
But it could be you haven’t yet arranged these things in such a way as to bring you great contentment.
Focus on all the things you currently have in life, and on the things you know you are capable of doing.
Now ask the cards:
“To be happy, how should I put it all together?”
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It’s hard sometimes to know who’s okay and who’s hurting.
The signs are never the same.
Perhaps there’s someone in your life – a friend, a coworker, or a family member who is in need of your help.
Maybe there’s someone who needs more…
…from you.
And maybe they’re not able to express it by themselves.
With an open mind, and with concentration on those who are closest to you, ask the cards whether there might be someone who needs you, and furthermore what you can do to help them.
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To some extent, nearly everyone idealizes things in their life.
We idealize situations.
And we idealize people.
If you’re in a relationship, whether brand new or well-developed, and you’re guilty of idealizing your mate (in other words, you regard them as perfect or better than in reality) you may find yourself needing to temper future expectations.
With a focus on your own perceptions and how they contrast with what you’re really experiencing in love, ask your cards:
“How can I stop idealizing romance and appreciate it for how it truly is?”
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Starting simply, you’d like to know the energy of one single day in your life. You want the vibe, the atmosphere, the general feel of 24-hours of ups and down.
Ask the deck, pull one card, and read today’s feel intuitively.
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Did you enjoy these questions?
If so, we’ve got an entire book of them – 101 Questions to Ask Your Tarot Deck.
Click the pic to grab your copy today!
A full 78-card tarot deck with a surreal, shadowy feline art theme. All the darkest cats packed into one lustrous deck. Featuring the suits of Chalices, Moons, Tombs, & Staves. If you love cats and tarot, this is the deck for you!
Decks are available HERE.
Guidebooks are available HERE.
An intuitive 52-card oracle deck in which card readers divine their own personal meanings from each card. Features colorful, sometimes surreal artwork. Creatures, landscapes, and serene and often shadowy realms. Spirits & Shadows is the very first of J Edward’s card decks.
Decks are available HERE.
Guidebooks are available HERE.
A 52-card deck focused on dream meanings and the archetypes/incarnations we wish to become, Dreams & Incarnations is an intuitive, spiritual deck meant to illuminate our truest selves. Featuring J Edward’s most surreal artwork yet, with plenty of moons, shadowy creatures, and colorful landscapes.
Decks now available HERE.
Guidebooks available HERE.
A deep and serious tarot deck, Shadow Journey echoes the journey we must all take in life. Artistically, it follows the adventures of a lone shadow girl as she wanders through strange, dark, and surreal realms in search of herself. She’ll meet plenty of friends (Skelly) and foes (Cloaks) along her way. This is our newest, deepest tarot deck.
Decks now available HERE.
Guidebooks are HERE.
The darkest cats are our greatest guardians, or so goes this deck. Features 52 cards with more dark feline art. The theme here is protection and empowerment, with each cat urging you to be the most powerful version of yourself. Fearless Familiars is meant to be used in tandem with Haunted Cat Tarot, but can also be used alone.
Decks are HERE.
Guidebooks available HERE.
And of course, all five decks will forever be available at Etsy – ShadowArtFinds. Click the pic below to gets yours tonight!
The Shadow Journey tarot deck contains 78 cards, and features all-new original artwork by J Edward Neill.
Skeletons, Shadowy Ladies, Dark Figures, Surreal Landscapes – The theme of the deck: Journeying from innocence into completeness.
The deck ships in a lux box with full artwork. It’s now available HERE.
The guidebook for The Shadow Journey tarot is available both online and in physical form. For those with e-readers, guidebooks will be available on Amazon Kindle. For those who prefer physical guidebooks, they’ll be available at Amazon (Prime w/ fast shipping) right HERE.
Free PDF guidebooks with full art are available here: Shadow Journey Guidebook
Also…a series of six special edition 5 x 10 prints is available (including full tarot card text) to celebrate the deck release. Check the prints out HERE.
Questions? Contact J Edward at his Facebook art page here.
A full 78-card tarot deck with a surreal, shadowy feline art theme. All the darkest cats packed into one lustrous deck. Featuring the suits of Chalices, Moons, Tombs, & Staves. If you love cats and tarot, this is the deck for you!
An intuitive 52-card oracle deck in which card readers divine their own personal meanings from each card. Features colorful, sometimes surreal artwork. Creatures, landscapes, and serene (often shadowy) realms. Spirits & Shadows is the very first of J Edward’s card decks.
A 52-card deck focused on dream meanings and the archetypes/incarnations we wish to become, Dreams & Incarnations is an intuitive, spiritual deck meant to illuminate our truest selves. Featuring J Edward’s most surreal artwork yet, with plenty of moons, shadowy creatures, and colorful landscapes.
A deep and serious tarot deck, Shadow Journey echoes the journey we must all take in life. Artistically, it follows the adventures of a lone shadow girl as she wanders through strange, dark, and surreal realms in search of herself. She’ll meet plenty of friends (Skelly) and foes (Cloaks) along her way. This is our newest, deepest tarot deck.
The darkest cats are our greatest guardians, or so goes this deck. Features 52 cards with more dark feline art. The theme here is protection and empowerment, with each cat urging you to be the most powerful version of yourself. Fearless Familiars is meant to be used in tandem with Haunted Cat Tarot, but can also be used alone.
Available now via Etsy, I’m offering $10 commission reservations for haunted black cat paintings. This is how you land your exclusive spot for a haunted cat commissioned painting.
To get started, head to this shop listing:
After reserving your painting (for only $10) you’ll message me with your request for the following:
Background primary color
Background secondary color
Your choice of background elements, which are limited to: 1-3 Moons, Grass, Tree Roots, Distant Trees, Distant Tombstones, Pedestal
Your choice of canvas size and material (12″ x 16″ or 16″ x 20″) (Cotton Canvas or Hard Gesso Board)
Whether you want your cat to be haunted (no pupils in the eyes) or normal (pupils in the eyes.)
Prices of final customized paintings are HERE.
After choosing from the above options, you’ll send me a single photo of your cat. The painting I complete will have the exact pose you send. Make sure your photo is hi-resolution and is exactly what you want.
ALL the cats I paint will be black. I will not paint any other color of cat. If your cat isn’t black, and you’re ok with me painting it as a black cat, that’s totally fine. 🙂
ALL paintings will be finished in acrylic and coated with two layers of satin varnish.
The back of each painting will be signed by the artist, me.
Each painting will require approx. 1 week to finish, and a few days after shipping to arrive at your door.
IF the painting is to your liking when complete, you’ll go to a separate listing to complete payment. It’ll be here.
IF the painting is NOT to your liking, you have no further obligation. I’ll keep and sell the painting privately. (The $10 reserve fee is non-refundable.)
For a video describing the process fully, please head here.
I reserve the right to refuse any commission reservation. (If I do, I’ll fully refund the $10 reserve fee.)
The Shadow Journey tarot deck will contain 78 cards, and will feature all-new original artwork by J Edward Neill.
Skeletons, Shadowy Ladies, Dark Figures, Surreal Landscapes – The theme of the deck: Journeying from innocence into completeness
The deck will ship in a lux box with full artwork.
The guidebook for The Shadow Journey tarot will be available both online and in physical form. For those with e-readers, guidebooks will be available on Amazon Kindle. For those who prefer physical guidebooks, they’ll be available at Amazon (Prime w/ fast shipping) for just $5.99. Free PDF’s with full art will also be available on release day.
The deck will be available at this shop. Individual decks, as well as discounted reseller bundles, will be available.
Also…a series of six special edition 5 x 10 prints will be available (including full tarot card text) to celebrate the deck release.
Questions? Contact J Edward at his Facebook art page here.
Hi there.
I’m J Edward.
Quite often, I get asked to do album covers, book covers, and other licensed products. It’s time I addressed it publicly.
A lot of artists have complex or difficult-to-understand rules regarding art rights, cover work, commissions, and exclusivity.
I do not.
My rules are simple:
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Want to discuss further? Find me via any of my social media links.
Want to view the originals and prints I have available? Go here.
Much love to everyone.
May the art live forever.
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What mediums do I use for my paintings?
I use mostly acrylic (Liquitex) on cotton canvasses, gesso boards, & wood panels. Every now and then, I’ll work with charcoal & graphite. (They’re not so fun to clean up.) I never use AI programs, NFT’s, or digital tools. They’re just not for me.
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Do I offer tutorials?
Well…sort of. My process is considerably different from most. While I don’t have time-lapse videos just yet, I do have this.
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To what locations do I ship paintings, prints, and card decks?
I ship originals to the USA, Canada, UK, and some parts of the EU. For art prints, I ship only to the US and Canada, as shipping costs overseas are pretty outrageous. To balance that, I offer digital downloads for collectors to buy and download local to them. They’re inexpensive, and available here. Alas, I no longer ship prints or decks to Australia or New Zealand. Too many issues with lost packages.
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Where can all my available original canvas, wood panel, & gesso board paintings be found?
Right here!
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What about prints?
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How do I package prints, decks, and originals, and how quickly do they ship?
I pride myself on very durable packaging. For lustre prints, I ship rolled in a hard cardboard tube. For giclees, usually a flat padded box. For mounted canvasses and original paintings, I ship in bubble-wrapped, double-layered, heavy-duty boxes. For card decks, I ship in lux boxes packaged in bubble mailers. Most prints and originals ship within 1-2 days of ordering. For mounted canvasses, these are custom made, and require 3-4 days to build and ship.
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My shop has a ton of different print options available. What exactly are lustre, velvet giclee, and mounted canvas prints?
I wrote up a special article just for this question. It’s right here.
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Do I create/license art for book covers, album covers, t-shirts, and other products? What about tattoos?
I wrote up a special article just to cover these questions. Get all the details here.
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Do I offer custom/commissioned work?
Alas, never. I find great joy in creating whatever my personal dreams (or my cat) inspire. The rigors of painting someone else’s ideas just don’t appeal to me.
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Why don’t my oracle and tarot decks ship with guidebooks included?
Good question. To save myself and buyers a ton of money, I’ve made the guidebooks available as free PDF’s or on Amazon Prime for a low price. If I were to ship the decks with guidebooks firsthand, the price would be much higher, both for book printing and freight. It’s better this way, trust me.
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What else do I do with my time besides make art?
Before I sank my teeth fully into the painting, I published novels, short stories, philosophy books, and more. I was a full-time author, and I loved it! My books are here.
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Where am I located?
Usually, Athens, GA. But sometimes, Chicago. And other times, New York. I like to stay on the move!
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Do I do art shows?
Yes. Sometimes. Mostly local tattoos shops, Pancakes & Booze tours, Art & Chocolate Tours, and DragonCon.
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Where is the best place to see my latest work and get in touch on social media?
Great question. Right here.
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Still have more questions, or maybe there’s something important I need to add here?
I’m listening. The best place to reach out is here.
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So…
You say you’re in the market for some art prints.
First of all, awesome. After all, art prints have great upsides. They’re an inexpensive alternative to buying original art. They’re typically smaller than big canvas paintings. They can be put into stylish frames. They’re easier to handle, and even replace, than larger, hard-to-ship art.
Sounds great, right?
But there’s just one question.
How do you know what type of art print is right for you?
Now, when we talk about the ‘type’ of art print, we’re not looking at the art style. That’s a entirely different conversation. Maybe you like kittens, or watercolors, or abstract art, or…if you’re looking at my work, crazy dark surrealism. It’s all good. But what we’re talking about today is the material of which your future art print will be made of. Be it photograph paper, inkjet lustre prints, velvet giclees, canvas prints, or mounted canvas, there are more styles of print than most people realize.
Many, many more.
Which is a good thing. It’s always nice to have options, right?
Let’s get straight to it.
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Photographic style prints are your entry-level art print. If you buy from most artists, this is the basic style they will offer. Photo-style prints are inexpensive, durable, and provide a quality that most art-lovers find very much acceptable.
What’s the scoop?
This type of print typically uses dyed inks on digital photograph paper. If you’ve ever held an actual photograph in your hand (I say this only because so many photos these days are strictly digital) then you have a general idea for the quality of a photo print. The paper stock used is thicker than standard printer paper. It’s durable stuff, and the colors of most paintings (especially line art or art with plenty of strong, bold colors) will look good. It’s easy to frame, easy to ship, and not particularly pricey. What’s more, this style of print can be made to be glossy, semi-glossy, matte, or even metallic, depending on the artist’s (or buyer’s) tastes.
In short, it’s versatile stuff. And in today’s ever-growing art market, it’s what you’ll see a ton of.
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Suppose you want to step up your art print game. You want better color saturation. Better paper. Something longer lasting.
And more than anything, you want an art print that picks up every detail of the original artist’s work.
Giclee prints might be for you.
In today’s world, there are many styles of giclee prints. There’s deep matte, a printing process which carves out any hint of shine, leaving only the deep, dark details. There’s somerset velvet, a smooth, luxurious-feeling print, capturing the subtle color notes in a detailed piece of art. If you see words like Lexjet, Lexjet matte, Somerset velvet, or 100% cotton, then you’re dealing with a high-quality giclee.
In short, giclees are gallery-quality prints printed using pigmented inks (instead of dyed inks) on archival (typically cotton) paper. If the original is unavailable, and a buyer, gallery, or even the original artist wants an excellent reproduction, giclees are most likely what they’ll go for. The paper is much higher quality than photo paper, which allows excellent color saturation and detail. When framed properly, a good giclee will resemble the original painting in almost every way (unless it was a highly-textured original.)
The only drawback? With giclees, buyers should expect to pay two to four times more than the price of a standard photographic print.
As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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Still further up the art print ladder, we find canvas prints.
Similar to giclees (and made using the same pigmented inks) canvas prints typically are excellent, top-notch reproductions of art. Whether created by traditional artists after their originals have sold or by digital artists who desire a physical copy of their work, canvas prints are a superb method of displaying art.
Firstly, they’re flexible. Printed on the thickest, most durable materials, canvas prints are bendy, tough to damage, and easy to trim/manipulate for framing. Even more than giclees, they’re a long-lasting print style, and can be varnished with protective coatings to last many decades (or possibly even centuries…given that the technology used to create them is still relatively new.)
If you’re a collector who wants the best possible reproduction of a piece of art, canvas prints are likely for you.
The good news? While pricier than inkjet or photo prints, canvas prints are typically only 10-25% more expensive than giclees.
The challenge? Canvas prints come loose and in need of (usually high-quality) framing.
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Mounted canvas prints are quite simple, really.
They’re the same as canvas prints, same material, same color quality, same durability.
But they’re stretched and mounted on a wooden frame, and are 100% ready to hang.
For collectors who don’t want to pick out custom frames, and for art-lovers who like to hang art just as it looked in the original artist’s studio, mounted canvasses are a great option. Like standard canvas prints, they can be varnished. The wooden frames (typically 1/2″ to 2″ thick) offer stability, ease of hanging, and true-to-life colors which often match the original work.
Personally, I’ve hung multiple mounted canvasses of my own work (after the originals are gone) and I can’t really tell the difference between them and the original paintings.
They’re that good.
The good part? Original-looking art which typically costs far less than original paintings.
The only drawback? The cost of stretching and mounting the canvas is significant, meaning these are usually the most expensive print option.
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Of course, there are other print options out there. Custom paper styles. Custom finishes. But in general, 95% of what collectors will see in the market today will fall under these four art prints styles.
I hope, for all you art-lovers and artists out there, this article proved helpful. If you have questions or want to chat about print styles, reach out to me at any of my social media links right here.
And of course, I invite you to take a look at my own selection of art prints. Click the pic below and fall into my surreal world.
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Like most people (I think), I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. My feed will fill up with the most stupid, crazy, weird stories that will cause blood to stream from my eyes and ears. And yet, occasionally, there will be some random link to something that is beyond a bit of genius. Today that was Brazillian Graphic Designer Butcher Billy who took famous songs and turned them into horror book covers. Each of them got my creative juices flowing, so I thought I’d share a few and what I thought the book could be.
Artwork by Brazillian Graphic Designer Butcher Billy
By now everyone knows that this song is not a love song, but instead was always a song about obsession. Of course, that didn’t stop people from having it as “their song”. So when I look at the cover, the way that he’s laid out the lyrics in the bottom left are very much a mantra of someone who has completely lost themselves in this other person. This novel is a study of a young woman who has become enamored with a man who she works with or perhaps lives in a nearby apartment. She’s constantly finding excuses to be at the same places he frequents, in a hope to just strike up a simple conversation with this guy. She knows that she’s right for him even as she watches a string of women come and go. If only he’d turn and “see you belong to me”.
Of course, the reason these other women are constantly leaving (disappearing) is that she’s making sure there is no chance for them to truly connect with anyone but her. She hides the bodies and eventually does get that one moment with him… and she’s not going to ever let him go.
Artwork by Brazillian Graphic Designer Butcher Billy
Speaking of “their song”, Lady in Red is my wife and my song. We danced to it a Homecoming and then again many years later at our wedding. Yet, this cover has me seeing the song differently now…
As a serial killer, Daniel has very specific tastes. He only deserves the best. He cannot end up with just any person, what sport would that be? No, it has to be someone very special that he analyzes and then slowly brings them to the point that they are almost chasing him. Only when he can do that does the deaths mean anything.
So, when he sees Sandra at the club, she “shined so bright” and for once he saw someone who could maybe be his true love. All the death had led him to her. The only question was whether he could control his base urges and truly become a new man for her.
Or did he have to?
Artwork by Brazillian Graphic Designer Butcher Billy
It’s not Jessica’s fault that she is different. Just like it wasn’t her fault that bus t-boned her car a year ago. The doctors said that it was a miracle she survived at all. Now she just wants to go back to her old life. Move on.
Yet, she gets these cravings every now and then. Hunger pangs that aren’t satisfied with anything she ends up eating. Fruit and vegetables now make her sick and at best raw meat only causes the pain to subside for a day or so. No, there’s something else now at work inside her. And now, “when the leading man appears” she finds that the urges are too much to take.
But she doesn’t have to kill him. She only needs to “take a piece of me with you”.
Artwork by Brazillian Graphic Designer Butcher Billy
I feel like this could be the sequel to Everytime You Go Away. That same creature of the night, Jessica, has continued her nightly escapades, but now she’s managed to attract the wrong attention in the form of the FBI who have now dubbed her the “Maneater”. Now she has to stay one step ahead of them all the while feeding the beast within her, for if this is her under control, what happens if she truly loses control?
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I wonder what other pop songs might make good horror books? I feel like Duran Duran’s Union of the Snake could be something. Tears for Fears Everyone Wants to Rule the World. INXS Devil Inside seems a no brainer.
Got any good ones?
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John McGuire is the writer of the sci-fi novel: The Echo Effect.
He is also the creator/author of the steampunk comic The Gilded Age. If you would like to purchase a copy, go here!
Click here to join John’s mailing list and receive preview chapters of upcoming novels, behind the scenes looks at new comics, and free short stories.
His other prose appears in The Dark That Follows, Hollow Empire, Tales from Vigilante City, Beyond the Gate, and Machina Obscurum – A Collection of Small Shadows.
He can also be found at www.johnrmcguire.com
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The Dreams & Incarnations oracle deck contains 52 lushly-illustrated cards, featuring original artwork by J Edward Neill and card definitions by Heather Neill.
Ravens, moons, cats, crocodiles…skeletons, towers, and otherworldly landscapes… The theme of the deck: dream symbolism and powerful, personal self imagery.
As an intuitive deck (readers are encouraged to find their personal meaning using the artwork) the guidebook will be primarily online. A free downloadable PDF is here: [ddownload id=”30202″]. For those with e-readers, a guidebook will be available on Amazon Kindle. For those who prefer physical guidebooks, they’ll be available at Amazon (Prime w/ fast shipping) for just $5.99.
Dreams & Incarnations is available at Etsy – ShadowArtFinds. Individual decks, as well as discounted reseller bundles, will be available.
Also…a series of six special edition 8 x 10 prints is already available (including full oracle card text) to celebrate the deck. Available here.
Questions? Contact J Edward at his Facebook art page here.
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Coming soon…the Dreams & Incarnations guidebook…
