Étienne Beck.

 

 Étienne Beck.

Disa Wallander

 

Screen print by Disa Wallander.

Carmen Saldaña

 

Winter wolf by Carmen Saldaña.

Ben Jones

Illustration by Ben Jones.

 

Nicolas Gouny III

 A winter wolf by Nicolas Gouny.

Jenny Dai

 

Keeping balance by Jenny Dai.

Abel Burger

Painting 'Moonshiner' by Abel Burger. Abel Burger (b. 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice ranges from oil pastel and drawing to video works and written essays. Strongly influenced by the artistic movements of the 1990s, Burger was a central member of the Parisian underground scene, authoring texts on gender and identity, and developing video work series. Burger’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows across Europe and the US,he lives and works in Port-Vendres, France. 

 

Hazel Terry, Folktale Week 2023

 

I have not finished this image as I write, the image below will be it completed. This LRRH creation has been odd, its inspiration was a miss (visually) read greetings card of a cat. Miss-seeing things is always interesting and I tried to keep the misunderstood image in my head.

This is my second ink drawing and it turned accidentally into a hairy (rotten?) apple and so my intention is to make Little Red the pip. 

I like these happy accidents and I like the imagery of the wolf as temptation and that whole sexual dynamic and blame game being turned on it's head. My excuse for creating these is that it is Folktale Week and todays prompt is ink. 

Lost

I am attempting to complete #folktaleweek this year, my first two illustrations for the prompt of 'Lost' involved barn owl feathers, because I have a collection of them and they are so beautiful, and because I wanted a different forest. However I also have some magpie feathers and I wanted an even darker interpretation and so returned to my old favourite folktale Little Red Riding Hood. 

 

Mark McGowan

Big Bad Wolf by the artist taxi driver, Mark McGowan.
 

Anna & Varvara Kendel

 

Wolves, illustration by twin illustrators Anna and Varvara Kendel.

John Hassall II

 

This is an earlier poster by John Hassall dated at around 1901

John Hassall I

 Lithograph Little Red Riding Hood Poster for a pantomime 1930 by John Hassall (1868-1948).

Harry Clarke

 

It is wonderful to find new vintage illustrations this one is by Harry Clarke from The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault 1922.

Henry Patrick Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, his work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. His ink work is phenomenal, very alike to Aubrey Beardsley's.

Jennie Harbour II

My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales,  Illustrated by Jennie Harbour. 

Jennie Harbour I

 'Little Red Riding Hood' by Jennie Harbour (1893- 1959) from 'My book of favourite fairy tales', 1921. This illustration is full of the elegance of the 1920's the trees bark is like lines of sequins or pearls on a typical 1920's dress.

Angela Smyth III

 

The crocodile like wolves, wolf like crocodiles, of Angela Smyth are always a delight here are some enjoying making music. 

Mark Timmins

 

I am putting this abstract collage by Mark Timmins as a red riding hood, I suppose because of the suggested threat in the image. Swallows numbers are going down year on year. Their incredible migration is ever more treacherous because of global warming and it's effect on wind, wave, flood and fire. 

Man's hand descending from the sky all powerful, towards this swallow headed lady fits the LRRH narrative. 

Christian Stork

 

Little Red Riding Hood collage by Christian Stork. 

Manuela Adreani

 

Manuela Adreani's Little Red Riding Hood, wonderful textures and intricate patterns.

Parya Salehi

 

Parya Salehi's interpretation of Little Red finding the wolf in grandma's bed. 

Monty Lee

 An imagined book cover by Monty Lee. 

Angela Smyth II

Angela Smyth's amorous wolf. 
 

Martin Jarrie II

 

The power struggle is real, Martin Jarrie.

Paths of hair and tears

 

With this piece of applique and sashiko I used the 'Little Red' figures as arrows to point along the paths. I chose the printed fabric on the paths as I thought it looked like hair.  The blue watery print as tears. The wolves eyes are mother of pearl one a beguiling flower, the other an evil slit.

So much of the little red fable is concerned with loss of innocence, the persistent threat of, and real, danger to young females, and coming of age. The paths that we take in life are so often arbitrary and yet when you are younger they have so much impact on shaping us and our direction in life. Hair and tears seemed to fit for this piece, I was abused on three separate occasions by three separate males as a child / teen the nonsensical injustice of this and the marks these events left are not a daily burden, but they are a presence, something that scarred. 

As an artist I use and often return to the little red imagery and story to explore injustice, sexuality and to make sense of events in my life, just now it feels like a hairy, scary path. 

Emanuele Tozzoli

 

The last Red Riding Hood of the apocalypse works by Emanuele Tozzoli.

Nishi Shuku

Two wolf illustrations by Japanese artist Nishi Shuku

 

Cotton Candy and Polka dots

 

This piece was unknown from the start, as I was playing with some gifted cotton. I am not a crocheter or a knitter so I decided to try to weave it into a wolf. It worked but then grew a strange life of its own as I had woven no body, but I kind of like the peculiar and uncomfortable nature of this.

It's getting darker . . . Blood Lines

 

These images evolve as I work, I start with a rough skeleton of fabrics and then flesh out the design as I go. This piece called Bloodlines started with circles of blood, I planned on crocheting them, but in the end wove circles and then added the drips, which evolved into red trees, and finally a path of blood in red sashiko.  I like the dark skinned Little Red, I just like the darkness of this piece in contrast to some of the lighter coloured and designed ones I have been working on. 

Karl James Mountford

An illustration by Karl James Mountford in response to 'Sweary Tales', an idea by Penny Neville Lee 

Faye Morehouse

 

Faye Morehouse's 'Dog Attack'. 

Kuroda Ryutaro

 

A beast of a wolf by  Kuroda Ryutaro.

Vânia Mignone

 

This definitely counts as a 'wolfish thing' post, but the violence of the red and the 'tail' of the tree crown in this painting by Vânia Mignone could only be a LRRH image to me, extremely bold and unsettling. 

Pearly Eyes and Pearly Skies

 This LRRH grew arms and legs as the sky took on a life of it's own and needed a full galaxy of stars planets and comets. The starting point was the death of a much loved and suddenly too holey linen t-shirt that needed a good send off. 

Manuela Mapelli

 An articulated wolf by Manuela Mapelli 

Kosuke Ajiro II

 Kosuke Ajiro

A drop of blood, a blood red tear.

 

I have just finished my latest little red, which started as a red tear and developed into red woven teeth and  little red becoming a drop of blood/ blood tear.  Every time I set out on one of these works it is a surprise. I don't plan them completely, but just start playing with colour, pattern and texture of fabrics layering and playing and then the design grows, and as it grows so does this particular interpretation of the tale and its protagonists. After all these years I still cannot believe how versatile and complex this seemingly simple story is and how it reflects the human story of power, evil, love, death, life, kindness . . . 

This piece is approximately a meter square with sashiko background, my daughter is always bamboozled by the time and effort of the sashiko and wonders why I insist on it but those stitches  and the building of texture is very important to the process., a meditation on humanity that I seem to need.