The Oz Enthusiast

Here for Easter is a magazine page of artwork by John R. Neill - The Hare-Brained Bunnies' Easter Party . These wonderful vignettes ar...

One of the results of a new Oz movie opening, has been several gallery shows of Oz-inspired artwork. It's always fun to see differen...

The first new major Oz movie in a generation opened this past weekend, to good box office and varying reviews. I avoided as much of the pr...

Here's the finished pair of ruby slippers. This has been an interesting project that I don't think I'm anxious to repeat any t...

Although I'm a fan, I'm not a great collector of the 1939 MGM film version of The Wizard of Oz. But there is something fasci...

Happy New Year! Of course we're well into 2013 by now, but I've been on a break from blogging so I have some catching up to do! ...

Merry Christmas!   I'm afraid I've been neglecting my blog for the past few months, but we'll see what the new year brings!

Earlier this year I spent a good deal of time creating centerpieces for the National Oz Convention, in the form of candy containers based ...

There are certain Oz illustrations that I find iconic - John R. Neill's illustration for Ozma of Oz , of Ozma crossing the deadly desert...

John R. Neill created a wide variety of artwork for various uses - story illustration, advertising, magazine covers, etc. I've also se...

This week an art transport company stopped by, and picked up a piece of artwork by John R. Neill to take to the Brandywine Museum in Chadd...

Late last year I agreed to take on a project for this year's National Convention. This consisted of making a dozen table centerpieces f...

I've finally attended an Oz convention - This past weekend was the National Convention for the International Wizard of Oz Club, held ...

This is an interesting idea - a reconstruction of one of the original posters for the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz. This w...

This is another fun little item with a slight Oz connection - sometimes these things are hard to resist! This is a creamer from the Uplift...

Here's an unusual book that doesn't turn up very often - this is a copy of  Book of Drawings by Fred Richardson from 1899. It...