In previous years I had done several drawings for the Oz Calendar and I'd not been terribly happy with any of them. I don't like drawing line art all that much, but I do like painting, and Eric suggested I try painting a calendar picture instead of working in pen-and-ink line art. So I did. The theme was to be "The Villains of Oz," as I recall. I was quite pleased with my picture - a silly drawing of the Roly-Rogues from Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix (1905). After I'd finished the drawing the "Villains" calendar theme was abandoned and the drawing was never published.
But the Roly-Rogues were getting hungry after all these years, so I've let them loose on the blog.
What a cute, unique, humorous take on the Roly-Rogues!
ReplyDeleteFredrick Richardson is still the man, though.
Charming!
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteAnd they look like they mean business!
ReplyDeleteYou did this?
ReplyDeleteGOOD Job!
The Roly-Rogues actually look like menacing characters moreso than before yet probably would have been approved by L. Frank Baum.
Cleaning house? Moving?
ReplyDeleteNo, not moving - just cleaning house and rearranging stuff after painting and re-carpeting the master bedroom.
ReplyDeleteI really like it!
ReplyDeleteBack when I was a kid I had several pictures of mine in a Beautiful Villains calendar for the Oz club.
I illustrated Jinjur, the gypsies from Ojo in Oz, The Mangaboo Princess and I think one other...I'd have to dig it out to be sure.
I think I was 13 or 14 at the time.