Wendy froud

Last weekend at FaerieCon I had the chance to sit down with Wendy Froud, the internationally renowned sculptor, puppet builder, and doll maker. While I'd had the opportunity to meet Wendy once before, this was the first time I'd been able to spend much time with her. She is as warm and gracious a

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Wendy Froud first gained acclaim as an artist and sculptor when she created Yoda for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Her work with Jim Henson on Dark Crystal and Labyrinth also won the h…

In this workshop, renowned artist Wendy Froud explains and demonstrates how to create a faery figure. She begins with a guided visualization to help you access your imagination for unique designs. Wendy then shows how to properly build the armature and prepare the polymer clay, anticipating the various problems that may occur further into the process. From there, she sculpts the head, upper torso, hands and feet, determining the figure’s proportions and gesture and explaining how to quickly…

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We finally had the chance this morning to go on a long walk with Elfie again. We walked to a small stone circle in Fernworthy forest. We haven’t visited this particular circle in quite a while and it was good to see it again, especially with the grass around it still very short and winter-dead. It doesn’t look like much when you see it in a photograph but it has lovely energy and always feels like a place of healing. There is a burial mound near it and that also feels like a place of…