Ana Botezatu II

Fig 1 (above) from the series Animals Like Humans by Ana Botezatu

A very modern collage illustration of Red Riding Hood using photographs, drawing and text by Ana Botezatu .

References

Fig 1: Animals Like Humans by Ana Botezatu http://www.anabotezatu.com/work/animals-like-humans/

Kathleen Lolley

   Fig 1 (above) 'Forest Magic' shadow box.

   Fig 3 (above) Belly of the Beast

Often incorporating a red hood many of American illustrator Kathleen Lolley's works seem to derive inspiration from folk tales. 

I derive visual inspiration from nature, poetry, philosophy & music and seek to synthesize these elements in my work. My visual style is an organic mix of surrealism and folk art. A wide variety of mediums are used; including acrylic, oil, paper-mache, gouache, mixed -media and collage. I strive to allow enough ambiguity for the viewer to draw upon their own imagination to create their own interpretation. Kathleen Lolley

References:

Fig 1: Forest Magic, https://www.etsy.com/transaction/90366831?
Fig 2: Creation of Fireflies, https://www.etsy.com/transaction/108650476?
Fig 3 Belly of the Beast, https://www.etsy.com/transaction/108123893?

https://www.facebook.com/LolleyArt
http://www.lolleyland.com/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Lolley?ref=unav_listing-r

Raul Nieto Guridi II

Fig 1(above): Un clásico...by Raul Nieto Guridi

Spanish illustrator Raul Nieto Guridi's fantastic portfolio is full of inventive and creative Red Riding Hood illustrations and interpretations. This image 'Un clásico' layers photography, print and illustration with a meter rule becoming the path or map of the adventure.

References: 

Fig 1: Classic by Raul Guridi http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/un-clasico.html

http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/GuridiRaul

Anouk De Groot

                       Fig1: Anouk De Groot, Who's Afraid of Little Red Riding Hood 

"This folklore illustration Little Red Riding Hood, (or Litle Red Cap) inspired by the famous folktale told by the Brothers Grimm, is drawn with colored pencil and ink and shows Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in grannie’s pyjama’s together in the woods. The wolf should be the scary one, but it is the coming of age young girl who is the scariest one in this picture." Anouk and the Pencils

Anouk De Groot is a Dutch artist currently based in London but her inspiration is gleaned from forests and wild places. Her imagery often draws on folklore and mythology. Anouk mainly works in lino cut printmaking and graphite.

"I entitled this illustration 'Who is afraid of Little Red Riding Hood' I pictured the wolf with his big claws and teeth in a dominating pose next to Red Riding Hood, who appears lovely, small and harmless. Though when we look a bit closer a second time, the expression in her young face is quite intense and even a bit intimidating. 

In my opinion the original story of Little Red Riding Hood is about the coming of age of young girls, the transition from innocence to adulthood. In my here illustration of the wolf and the girl I wanted to give great power to the little girl and portray the wolf as a bit of a goofy, harmless character, for  it is in fact the girl in this ancient story who gains her own glorious power and knowledge."              Anouk De Groot 

References

Fig 1: Anouk De Groot, 'Who's Afraid of Little Red Riding Hood?'
         http://anoukandthepencils.com/folklore-tale/little-red-riding-hood/

http://anoukandthepencils.com/
https://www.facebook.com/anoukandthepencils
https://www.behance.net/anoukandthepencils

Hazel Terry, 'What has made Mr Wolf's Tummy So Big?' II

Fig 1(above): Working on the stitched flap.

I started this book 'What has made Mr Wolf's Tummy So Big' in December, at last it is completely finished. I have uploaded pictures of the pages in sequence.
There are no words apart from on the cover and a tiny help! in the middle.

Fig 2 (above): The cover (detail).                                                                            Fig 3 (above): Little red Riding hood walking to Grandmothers house.

It starts with Little Red Riding hood journeying to her grandmothers but the wolf can smell her . . .

and makes short work of eating her, her jam tarts and her Grandmother before falling asleep on the grandmothers bed.

Fig 4 (above): Concertina flap of the contents of the wolf's stomach.

At this point you can see what he has eaten by pulling open a flap.

The woodsman hears something? a help on the wind. 

                         Fig 5 (above): The woodsman hearing commotion. Fig 6 (below): Detail.

 When he reaches the grandmothers he carefully cuts open the wolfs tummy and extracts the Grandmother and Little Red.

                    Fig 7 (above) The woodsman cutting the wolf open, Fig 8 (above) the closed flap of  the tummy.

Again there is a concertina pull our where you can see the poor disheveled Little Red and Grandmother with broken up bits of tart.

                        Fig 9 (above): the opened out concertina of the stomachs contents.
Once out they all have a cup of tea to recover and decide what to do with the still sleeping wolf.

                                        Fig 10 (above) They have tea to recover and plan.

They decide he must have been very hungry to have eaten them and fill him up with jam tarts. 

                                         Fig 11 (above): Red Riding Hood and Grandmother fill the wolf with jam tarts.

                   Fig 12 (above) Two images from making the stitched the flap up.

 The grandmother then very carefully sews the wolfs wound up.

                                         Fig 13 (above) The Grandmother stitching.

                                         Fig 14 (above) Walking Back to Red Riding Hoods house.

Then they walk off to little Red Riding Hood's house, to give the wolf time to sleep of his food and operation. 

                                     Fig 15 (above): The back cover.

There it is, made just for fun. Freya (my daughter) loves going through the book and particularly enjoys opening up the concertina stomachs.

References

Fig 1: Working on the stitched flap.

Fig 2: The cover (detail).

Fig 3: Little red Riding hood walking to Grandmothers house.

Fig 4: Concertina flap of the contents of the wolf's stomach.

Fig 5: The woodsman hearing commotion. 

Fig 6: Detail, The wolf sleeping.

Fig 7: The woodsman cutting the wolf open. 

Fig 8: The closed flap of  the dissected tummy.

Fig 9: The opened out concertina of the stomachs contents.

Fig 10: They have tea to recover and plan.

Fig 11: Red Riding Hood and Grandmother fill the wolf with jam tarts.

Fig 12: Two images from making the stitched the flap up.

Fig 13: The Grandmother stitching.

Fig 14: Walking Back to Red Riding Hoods House.

Fig 15: The back cover.

Alexey Kowalski

              Fig 1 (above): Rotkäppchen cover by Alexey Kowalski. Fig 2,3,4 (below) Rotkäppchen  by Alexey Kowalski.

Alexey Kowalski's interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood has Little Red as a Tibetan girl in traditional costume, the forester as a monk and the grandmother as a wrinkled Tibetan elder. One of the Tibetan demons or spirits (Tulpas) takes the role of the wolf and this is what inspired Alexey's take on this story. The 'fireworks of colour on the expressive realistic monochrome images are very startling and quite scarey as they are ambiguous, they add a tension and fear.

References:

Fig: 1,2,3,4 Page illustrations from Rotkäppchen by Alexey Kowalski.     
       https://www.behance.net/AlexeyKowalski

https://www.behance.net/AlexeyKowalski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

Raul Nieto Guridi I

Fig 1 (above): Fin ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi  

Fig 2 (above) : Cover of ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi

Fig 3 (above) An elderly Red Riding Hood by Raul Guridi

Raul Guridi is a smiling Spanish illustrator from Saville. His mother was a painter and his father a draughtsman so it was natural that Guridi trained in and now teaches art at secondary school, and works as an illustrator and graphic designer. Often reworking classics with his own unique eye and humour using print, collage and a mixture of other medias.
Fig 4, Below: 'Fin' by Raul Guridi

References:

Fig 1: Final page from ¿Dónde está caperucita? by Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi 
         http://guridi.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/fin.html
Fig 2: Cover of ¿Dónde está caperucita? Con Cecilia Moreno illustrated by Raul Guridi
         http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/donde-esta-caperucita-con-cecilia-moreno.html
Fig 3: An elderly Red Riding Hood by Raul Guridi 
          https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=616750325040106&set=pb.100001154315756.-2207520000.1420230158.&type=3&theater
Fig 4: 'Fin' by Raul Guridi http://guridi.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/fin.html

http://guridi.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/GuridiRaul

Kate Beaton

                       Fig 1, Kate Beaton, 2015 Calendar

Kate Beaton lives in Canada, she trained in history and anthropology but then she started drawing and now she creates comics and characters often involving a comic take on both. She writes the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant that has now been published as a book.

   Fig 2: Kate Beaton Fairytales (detail).

References

Fig 1: Kate Beaton 2015, Calender http://beatonna.tumblr.com/post/97586505940/we-put-out-calendars-in-2012-and-so-many-people
Fig 2: Kate Beaton Fairytales (detail) http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=227

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php

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