53 Magicians Playing Cards - Mark Shortland

This is a card deck produced by Mark Shortland from his original artwork. Each was painted while working as a headline performer on board cruise ships around the world.

Each card shows a different well known magician.

Each original painting is 20cm x 25cm in size and painted in acrylic on artists' paper.

These paintings were then scanned in high resolution and the digital file was used to make each playing card. The artwork has not been enhanced or changed from the original work unless absolutely necessary.

Mark's own handwriting and drawings are used for the indices.

The deck contains 55 cards; 52 playing cards, one Joker and two information cards telling which magicians are on the cards.

The cards are expertly printed by Cartamundi on their Slim-Line paper/board (FSC, black core board - thin, snappy, soft to the touch). This board is combined with the TRUE LINEN B9 FINISH.

The back design was created by Mark Shortland as well. Here are a lot of names of the magicians written in a nice pattern.

Each deck comes cellophane wrapped inside a bespoke tuck box which is also wrapped.