Firebrand

I spent much of the weekend thinking about the disastrous forest fires in Siberia and the Amazon, many of which were purposefully started. This is a red riding hood styled response, called firebrand, the forest s red riding hood the wolf is capitalism.   

Teeny Tiny

My first Little Eed in many months, this one inspired by the Colour Collective challenge on twitter.

Eunsil Chun II

Eunsil Chun's watercolour illustration of Little Red with a fantastic patchwork wolf.

Aurélie Neyret

A wintery Little Red Riding Hood by French illustrator and cartoonist Aurélie Neyret. 

Barbara de Wolf

A lovely collaged red riding hood plucking tulips by Barbara de Wolf.

Makoto Maruyama 丸山真琴

Makoto Maruyama's blue wolf.

Oleg Zotov

Oleg Konstantinovich Zotov's (1928-1984) 'The Girl and the Fox' fairytale has many of the same visual references of little Red Riding Hood, with its delightful delicate illustrations of nature

Alfredo Cáceres II

Chilean illustrator Alfredo Cáceres explores the stuff of nightmares,

Wolf Fascism, Wolf Populism . . . big bad wolf.

I was thinking today on the wolf that is threatening; the fascist, the popularist, I thought of its smile of sharpened teeth. The wolf and little red are the iconography that comes to me when I am dealing with evil and stress, the ageless struggle between good and evil.

William W Denslow

W.W. Denslow's 1903 version of Little Red Riding Hood. In this version, the grandmother comes and beats the wolf and then red Ridinghood teaches him good manners.  I love the colour palette of this version and the blocks of red. 

William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) was an illustrator and cartoonist, famous for his illustrations of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He seems to have been a very argumentative man, he was divorced three times and also fell out with Baum over the royalties for the stage production of The Wizard of Oz for which he designed the sets and costumes.
The royalties from the print and stage versions of The Wizard of Oz were sufficient to allow Denslow to purchase Bluck's Island, Bermuda and crown himself King Denslow I.