So long neglected it's almost antique, but I want to get back to it soon. Actually about life-sized and full figure, on canvas:
Marion Richmond Gardner Rogers, my paternal grandmother and one to whom one could confide anything without hesitation.
The Red Horseman
Kind and most Patient Friends,
Reports of my demise have been at least modestly exaggerated. Here’s a scan of the Sunrise Horseman from Vasilisa the Beautiful (my increasingly tattered dummy thereof) just to let you know I’m still kicking. More anon, but for now:
Sketch on a paper napkin
Most of my creatures begin about like this, quite often on a paper napkin,
done at a coffee shop in the morning. This should turn into a winter angel,
cousin to the Eros below.
Baba Yaga should appear here again soon, too. And a blue angel in a rather different style...
Forget-Me-Nots for the Dodo Bird
"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."
~ William Beebe
(With thanks to Bob Bills for the quote above.)
Back on the brighter side...
The same Paper Doll in her dress...
Paper Dolls
Part of a Faery Paper Doll set done for NIADA (National Institute of American Doll Artists) for their UFDC
(United Federation of Doll Clubs) lunch in Las Vegas last month. Other NIADA artists contributed some fascinating and diverse Paper Dolls for the event.
More soon on Globulous Gray Beings and Abject Fright.
Aniversary...
A year today, astonishingly, since my mother's departure from this world. A curious day perhaps to work on paper doll sketches, but also somehow suitable, given our world. Anon, Friends.
Selkie...
An old Selkie. Rather, an old picture of a young Selkie -- done perhaps ten years ago. Ink, watercolor pencil, with unorthodox (even uncouth) use of watercolor. Arches Hot Press paper, off a block, Caran D'Ache watercolor pencils, which are great if you favor drawing over painting, but desire colour.
I aim to do some more Selkies, in two and three dimensions.
Vasilisa the Beautiful...
Just another detail from my take on 'Vasilisa the Beautiful.'
Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 01:41 PM
Blue Faery Dreaming, an "ACEO" card (Artist Cards, Editions & Originals, a phenomenon on eBay and elsewhere, standard trading card size at 2.5" x 3.5").
The Snow Queen
A detail from a Snow Queen in progress, oil on canvas. I wanted to capture the remote nature of the character as she appears to me, chill and numinous. The boy (Kay, in the Hans Christian Andersen story) is a near likeness of my father as a child. He fled this world poignantly early, and this tale felt fitting.
Into the wild wood...
Into the woods, and the mysterious new year. This is a detail from a sketch for the Russian folktale, "Vasilisa the Beautiful." Vasilisa goes into the wood, to fetch a light from Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is the famous witch who lives in a hut on chicken legs. This is an image I must pursue...
Baba Yaga Dines
Time for feasting and festivity. At this particular moment, however, I identify with Baba Yaga: living deep in the (mental) woods, with a few choice pets, having the occasional guest for dinner (main course).
Packing up and Moving in...
Shortly my old web address (Forestrogers.com) will take everybody here, instead of to my ancient and decrepit website. I’ll update that at leisure (lots of minute scraps of leisure strung together). Meantime, this is the my place to be! The Mouse above hopes you’ll join us in our travels and adventures...