Friday, June 8, 2007 at 11:36 AM

Kind Friends:

I must go to Colorado, likely to see my mother, Lou, out of this world within a few weeks. One thing I plan to do is post a lot more of her work. It would be a great thing to have your comments on it when I do, that I might share them with her.  So, please  check back here before too long -- perhaps a week or so!
My thanks for the kind and buoyant words so many have already sent and left -- it makes a great difference in the artist’s world.

My best,
Forest

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A Personal Note:

Friends: one of those human crises that rise up and shatter the round of one's daily world has reared its head here, and I may be MIA a while longer. 

Meantime, many, many thanks for the bounty of kind words that you, gentle viewers, have left for me.  I am no good at all with Time, at least not in its finite, measured guise, as you who've written me and not yet heard a peep will have gathered. But rest assured I hoard all  you comments and questions, and you will eventually get an answer, antique though it may be...
Yours,
Forest

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Caudipteryx

In 1987 the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, launched its model dinosaur line, “The Carnegie Collection”. I’ve worked with them since the beginning of that series, creating each creature with the guidance of the Carnegie’s experts, and learning a great deal the process. This is Caudipteryx, first the polymer clay original, with two painted resin prototypes below. Needless to say, we have some leeway on the colour, though we try to refer to appropriate living species. I use either Kato Polyclay or Classic Fimo for these models, with inset glass-bead eyes.

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Faery has her wings...

This faery is ready to fly to eBay, tonight or tomorrow. I’ll announce her debut on my eBay mailing list (if you’d like to sign up for that, see the link at right). These are the same wings as pictured below, in the Jan. 29 entry. It’s harder to capture the colours when somebody’s wearing them! The faery would stand about 8 inches tall, were she not sitting on a mushroom. The fibers in her ‘skirt’ are distressed silk gauze, in very pale green & pink. I believe she is dressed for a fay event, but she did not tell me what that might be.
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