Tongue swollen with lies

This is a strange image and a stranger idea, it is about a tongue swollen with lies. 

I was thinking about the 'big lie' theory, the propaganda technique used by the Nazi's in the second world war and now the endless lie technique being used by the current incumbent of the white house. 

Little Red Ridding Hood always seems to be my preferred visual tool for expressing horror and revulsion at events and politics. In this image the wolf can eat no more because his tongue is swollen from lying too much. We can but dream and draw and hope for this to end soon.

Julio Antonio Blasco López

Julio Antonio Blasco López is a Spanish illustrator from Valencia who works using a montage of different materials, ideas and techniques. This version of little red has been created like a stamp album, using extremely accomplished full colour illustrations and collages of sketches, it is a rich, vibrant book with new things to find at every reading. 

Roland Roure II

French artist Roland Roure creates wonderful kinetic sculptures using materials that would otherwise be in the bin (Thank you). The work he makes is magical delicate and beautiful like Calders wonderful circus.

Roland Roure I

I found the amazing work of French artist Roland Roure care of Dom, and I am so pleased and inspired here are some of his many interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood.

Maxine Lee-Mackie

Maxine Lee-Mackie's new Tarot card designs featuring Little Red Riding Hood.

Sandra Rilova II

 Sandra Rilova's dark interpretation of this terrible tale. Red Riding Hood has been a reoccurring theme in Sandra's work over a number of years, again a story that is capable of telling many different interpretations of itself and life.

Erika Kallasmaa

Erika Kallasmaa is a Finish illustrator and this is her tiny watercolor of Little Red.

Yuriy Skomorokhov

Yuriy Skomorokhov's illustration for 'Вкусный Юра' is technically not a Little Red Riding Hood image, but any image of a little person in red inside a wolf's stomach counts, especially when the illustration is as delightful as Yuriy's collages.

Lizzy Hobbs

Stills for an animation, created using watercolour created in one long day ten years ago by my friend Lizzy Hobbs as part of her Tricky Women Film Festival residency in Vienna. If you are in Edinburgh this week Lizzy is talking at the EIFF Celebration of Animation and there is a retrospective of her animated work at The Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Paddy Donnelly

Paddy Donnelly's version of Little Red on display at the World Illustration Awards in Somerset House, London.