Brian Froud and The Dark Crystal Artwork

Brian Froud, Wendy Froud.. don't you just adore their artwork?! Wow, to put life to fantasy art is done so brilliantly by both of them. They cause me to take pause to imagine, feel the day and dream of what can be on canvas or a handful of clay.

Brian Froud, master magician of magical fantasy art. I have several of his books and "The Faeries Oracles". They are a wonderful slip away from the struggle. Creator and genius behind the films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and the best-selling books Faeries, Goblins of the Labyrinth, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, and many others.

Brian Froud's OFFICIAL site: www.worldoffroud.com

TURN ON THE MUSIC TO THE DARK CRYSTAL

as you enjoy leaning about Brian Froud.

This song is wonderful...

Brian Froud and Jessica Macbeth, "The Faeries' Oracle".. of which I have! LOVE IT!

Fantasy

Illustrations

Puppets

and really the list goes on.. check out his books and DVD's.

The image is of the painting "Swan Song" 36x48 oil on canvas by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

"The Caitiff and His Reluctant Lover the Mad Fairy"

Sometimes love does not come easy

rosebuds do not unfold...

they hesitate.

Unsure of their future...

they hesitate

and watch for the wind.

Hearing the howl of a wolf

within the telling moon

and eternities dark skyline

life inside a rosebud might just

wait in a

not yet lived

sigh.

Princes are born to seek out treasures

and yet

there are no rules around their virtues

or lack of them.

Sometimes

kindness does not come at all

within a predestined soul.

Kings creating rules

might not make boundaries

around evil or goodness

so.

Thus a story begins

a Caitiff seeking out his treasure

not worthy of sainthood

yet

no one told him so.

No

no one spoke

at all.

He came to melt the night

and seek the blood of strangers.

Unsuspecting wanderers

changelings

with wings

and one in-particular

who did not know her own worth.

There are fairies

knowing nothing of legends

and the weeping

of roses

who through no true fault of their own

are indeed

forever

unfolded.

Flowers who hesitated

feeling uneasy

said no

to the worlds light

and thus

chose

to never know their breath

or a fulfilled life.

Cowardly man

longed to capture

just

one

rose-less

unsuspecting spec of magic

and take unto him

an angelic being

for his moral-less needs.

Just one.

This then I will tell you

as it was told to me

and as best I can remember

of a flock of angelic fairies

and their destined plight.

Tis a remarkable task

to decipher the moon

tunes

against the sky

and to tell it

to you.

Here then is what was told

to me

of a certain delicate in mind

fairy.

She did indeed

after seeing no other choice presented

unquestionably

give her very tiny life

for the scheme

of a Caitiff.

Dear Lily was a worrier

she chanted out loud

songs from her past

and lessons she had learned

the hard way.

And she wanted

more than anything

to give back to life

the miracles

that she had thrown away.

This was her chance

she thought

the Caitiff can take 'me'

and the rest

will not be lost.

And so it was

she stood upon unfolded rose petals

stretched her arms out

singing

Caitiff take me

I will be your restored

joke

upon this land you may laugh at me

and once I'm taken

this destiny

will be

complete.

And so he did

take that fairy from her mind

and after he had done all

left her to her own

songs to pitifully

recall.

He then set her inside an unsung rose

and left her fragile body

forever to lie

waiting

in solemn

repose.

Within a single petal

of every flower you see

be sure to notice

there might just be

a fairy

waiting

for you

to set

her

free.

Copyright 2009

by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

Cool You Tube showing some of Brian's books.

My goodness such an amazing illustrator!

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