And in need of hair-gel and better rags:

Artist, keeper of Little Ahab the Bird, child of Lou the Visionary, servant of Folktales, lover of Myth, parent of the "Carnegie Dinosaurs" and other curious Commercial Objects, blessed with many an odd Adventure, the best and dearest Friends and most delightful Visitors on the planet.
Oops...this is where I meant to post...
SHE IS FANTASTIC!!! I am so happy to see that you finally created this beauty!!
Hugs
Jodi
Posted by: Jodi | 03 April 2009 at 05:44 PM
Wow. That really is fantastic!
Posted by: Charles | 03 April 2009 at 07:26 PM
Forest,
As usual, your work always surprises me, each one more than the previous, this is one Baba Yaga that has sprung from the imagination as i would have pictured her, right down to the pointy toenails... things that NiGHTMaReS are made of and then you created the BeAUTiFUL Vasilisa, LOVe your jib about over zealous sales ladies! lol...
Incredibly intricately executed work... you are just such a awesome creator of work.
LOVe the necklaces...
You are also such a talented artist... I am really speechless to say any more, i just love seeing your work progress along and love seeing it...
Thank you so much for sharing, can not wait to see more completed works.
LOVeD iT ALL, even the photos that you shared earlier of the birds and landscape.
Ditto on all said...
~joanna
Posted by: ~joanna | 04 April 2009 at 12:54 PM
O she is wonderful! Proudly wearing her scars of time and knowlage of life fully lived and not yet finished. A woman to look up to for such a person as myself. Not ever drawn in on the physical beauty and eternal youth thrown constantly at woman every where we go.
Toadie
Posted by: Michelle | 04 April 2009 at 05:47 PM
What a magnificent piece, Forest! Such an incredibly detailed sculpture, evoking many thoughts...I'm left breathless!
~ Linda
Posted by: Linda Smith | 07 April 2009 at 07:44 AM
Somehow she doesn't strike me as the type to use hair gel... ;-)
Those claws are skeery! She is amazing; her bone structure alone blows me away.
Blessings,
~~Erin~~
Posted by: Eirewolf | 07 April 2009 at 10:40 PM
Thanks so much, Jodi! You know your role in encouraging me with my First Dolly, another Old Lady, though of a rather different temperament... Ever my best to you and Richard!
Thank you so much, Charles! :)
Kind words indeed, Joanna! You ever lift and lift my spirits, and bless you for it...
Well said, Toadie! I'm with you...
Ah, thank you, Linda! So much appreciated.
You have a point on the grooming products, Erin... And, I'm glad you like them bones! I really do love skeletons, revealed and 'clothed,' so to speak. :)
And Blessings likewise,
Forest
Posted by: Forest | 17 May 2009 at 06:01 AM
I totally adore your works!
They're all so detail..
You must have put in lot of efforts and hardwork =]
~上藤ゆうき (Ueto Yuuki)
Posted by: ゆうき | 02 July 2009 at 06:38 AM
Thank you, Ueto Yuuki! I'm honored.
Yes, much effort but... one can't help it, as it were!
My very best to you,
Forest
Posted by: Forest | 26 July 2009 at 10:55 AM