"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now
mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Monday, July 23, 2007 at 10:58 PM
O western wind, when wilt thou blow,
That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!
~ Anonymous
Kind friends,
I'm still here in Colorado, far from home, attempting to get my mother's paintings gathered, her house laid straight and clean, and her business settled. Thank you so very much for your kind many words, both here and via e-mail. I hoard them, and will -- yes, really, really will -- be responding!
Forest
Bast
'Bast' by Lou
Not Far...
'Not Far' by Lou P. RogersLou P. Rogers: 13 December 1930 ~ 17 June 2007
“The Ancient Cloak”
by Lou P. Rogers,
a.k.a. Villiers, Dyson and Vaughn
a.k.a. Greenwood, Wingfield and Underhill
a.k.a. Marl Jones
a.k.a. Orion
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
Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 06:11 PM
Unicorn...
In Kato Polyclay, with mohair.
Faun, by Lou Rogers
Another piece by my mother, oil on canvas. She has sculpted and painted a large population of fauns and
greenmen.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
Another Selkie
A Selkie and her Seal to appear soon... And I myself shall reappear, as well.
A Creature Nearing Completion
When she’s finished, this strange little hybrid herb-gatherer is going to live with a kind (and exceedingly patient) friend in London, who is herself an herbalist.
Kato Polyclay over full armature of gold-plated wire and Aves Fixit Sculpt. Wings are distressed silk gauze.
More Faerie, Fairy, Faery wings:
Brushed Kato Polyclay over gold-plated wire & archival tissue paper. The tissue paper & wire were coated with PVA glue and allowed to dry, supplying the clay with a congenial surface. Several colours of Pearl Ex powder, from Jacquard, were brushed on, as well. This was the first pair I made in this way, actually. Now I prepare to attach them to somebody.
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.
Caterpillar’s Picnic
A very tiny pair of friends. Kato Polyclay, with brush bristles, and
Genesis heat-set oil paints.