New Year II

                       Fig 1 (above): New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry

The problem with thoughts in the middle of the night, that you draw/ write in the dark, is their illegibility and mystery in the morning, so you have to study the resulting scribble and try to remember what on earth it was about.

                                            Fig 2: New Year sketch, Hazel Terry

Well this thought was about the New year, and the Chinese New Year which in 2015 will be 'The Chinese Year of the Sheep' and then this . . . a loopy loo hat, which in the middle of the night (was it a nightmare?), I remembered having as a child.

                                               Fig 3 Loopy Loo knitting Pattern

The wolf I wanted to have dressed as a sheep and so I accessorized him with this woolly loopy hat from my childhood. I also wanted to include a sheep for the Chinese New Year and to stack up the protagonists in a new year wish.

   Fig 4: (above) New Year Red Riding Hood 2015 (detail), Hazel Terry 

Happy New Year 2015

References

Fig 1: New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry

Fig 2: New Year sketch, Hazel Terry

Fig 3: loopy loo Knitting Pattern.  http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mY1UtgvPIsfFGW8Cgs8z1ZA.jpg

Fig 4:  New Year Red Riding Hood 2015 (detail), Hazel Terry 

New Year I

   Fig 1: New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry

I have been thinking of how to mark the New Year 2015 with a Little Red illustration.
This was my first of two works celebrating the new year.
I wanted to include sheep as it is also going to be the Chinese year of the sheep. So I have made Little Red a shepherdess, while the forest and year number are the wolf's teeth.
I have made versions of Little Red with the wolf's tongue as the path before and I like the way it works like a red carpet into his mouth.

Happy New Year 

References

Fig 1: New Year Red Riding Hood 2015, Hazel Terry