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.