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idk if his work is based on real encounters or real fae. but they are beautiful pieces of art and i like them!!

Bek O.o

I agree with Natalie–    He has mentioned in an interview I saw that the faery seem to come to him- and he practically sees them in his mind's eye- and draws/paints each one who chooses to pop through to reveal themselves to him.

THis is why there are so many variety of Beings he paints- not just the winged fae.    

His depictions are so realistic too.  The faery Being I saw looked very much like the Pixies he painted .   The only difference was his were male pixies- and their eyes were more sharper looking while the faery being I saw had more softer long oval eyes which were not squinty looking.    Also the pixies he painted looked rather mischeivous and bratty-  lol

Now the faery I saw was not bratty looking -but very soft, feminine and humble- also royal too.  

I had NEVER seen most  of Brian Froud's paintings of all these Beings before-  never saw his Pixie paintings especially.  After my encounter, I scoured all sorts of websites online and went to Barnes & Noble to see if there were any books on real faeries.  I asked the clerk who showed me Brian Froud's books-  and that's how I discovered his pixies on one of the pages.   I think it was in his Good Faeries/Bad Faeries book but not sure.  BUt the painting of them is in his Faeries Oracle Deck which I had to buy!

THe Faery I saw really would have fit right in to his "Good Faeries" section-   I have to say Brian Froud is right on the mark. and I think alot of the more Bolder Fae were not shy about making themselves known to him so that he could paint them. I think they rather enjoyed it and he even admits that in his books.  Brian Froud is an Intuitive Painter.

Some of the more shyer faery probably never attempted to connect with him so that he could paint them-   His paintings help me to appreciate all types of Faery and not judge them just because they don't look like a Tinkerbell Faery. 

I actually doubt whether he has really met faeries. I've had his Faeries' Oracle for some time, but I never really connected with the deck, and I bought his Good Faeries, Bad Faeries book the other day and I am so disappointed that I'm returning the book. That book revolves around blaming human virtues and vices on faeries (and giving them goofy names).

Reading that book makes it sound like there are faeries acting everywhere in human life and human affairs, as if they desire to live through humans more than being involved in their own world. Part of me understands giving archetypal human traits a personification, for the sake of helping to confront or embrace them, but I don't like the connotation with faeries. This book describes them more as manifestations of the human psyche rather than separate entities.

Those of you who have read his stuff, what do you guys think? Maybe I'm just not understanding him?

Kikuyo said:

I actually doubt whether he has really met faeries. I've had his Faeries' Oracle for some time, but I never really connected with the deck, and I bought his Good Faeries, Bad Faeries book the other day and I am so disappointed that I'm returning the book. That book revolves around blaming human virtues and vices on faeries (and giving them goofy names).

Reading that book makes it sound like there are faeries acting everywhere in human life and human affairs, as if they desire to live through humans more than being involved in their own world. Part of me understands giving archetypal human traits a personification, for the sake of helping to confront or embrace them, but I don't like the connotation with faeries. This book describes them more as manifestations of the human psyche rather than separate entities.

Those of you who have read his stuff, what do you guys think? Maybe I'm just not understanding him?

i have good faeries/bad faeries and faeries, and i was conused with good faeries/ bad faeries, to. a credit card faerie?! what? a faerie that decides which side of toast lands right side up?

what he says in the introduction is that faeries have many forms so i think that when he was talking about those he was saying those are things the faerie like to do.