My eldest son is an artist, and he offered to take 'The Faerie of Dark Despair' and matte and frame it for me. (I try to live on disability-I have a bad back with other complications). The first one I bought was 'The Faerie of Dark Despair'. I am also a collector of Brian Froud's art prints. There is another w riter that says the same thing. Froud's explanation about angels being 'grown-up faeries' made sense to me.

I know that many people believe in angels so Mr. I am happy to have more information about faeries. The pictures in the book are amazingly beautiful, as I expected. That's alright I'm just glad he was finally able to appreciate Mr. She was into Brian Froud things, so he bought the Faerie's Oracle, and a few other of his books. Then he 'became sweet' on a girl he met on the internet. Strangly enough, when we separated, he had no interest in it. I am in the process of replacing some of it because I believe my ex-husband kept some of it. I have been an admirer of Brian Froud's work for years. Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination.īeautiful and very informative! Must for Froud fans. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures - traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. As it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light.

In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries - what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.' In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Faeries, artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. 'Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past.

Good faeries bad faeries by brian froud