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Who's that I see walking through these woods? Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood!

I've mentioned before that both my wife and I love the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I decided that, to start off my Fairy Tale series, I would draw my take on this classic story.

My drawing, "Shortcut", features the beautiful & delectable Little Red, walking along the forest path in the moonlight, on her way to her Grandma's house.

Little does she know that a Big Bad Wolf is dogging her footsteps, keeping an eye on her goodies, waiting for the opportune time to make his move.

*1st in a fairy tale series*

Original is 16x20" - oil pastel, colored pencil on archival art board -- $225.00 + shipping
Prints are available at my Deviant Art store.

Little Red - Work in Progress

I'm working on a new drawing, my own adaptation of the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. I did a quick sketch (to the right) before starting the larger drawing (below). I did the initial drawing in graphite and pencil, and the color work is oil pastels and colored pencil. I'm made great progress since these pictures were taken a couple days ago... but wanted to share my work in progress.

I'm really happy with it so far... maybe the tiniest bit tired of drawing individual bark on trees, but the end result will definitely be worth it. Look for the finished artwork in my Etsy shop, as well as here on the blog, within the next few days! :)

This Is Halloween!

Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year! It's the one time of year when you can dress up and pretend to be whoever you want to be... pirate, ninja, wizard or knight!

In 2008, Heather and I dressed as a pirate and his wench. Last year, we were the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. This year, Heather was Medusa and I was a Spartan soldier, turned to stone.

The costumes took a lot of time, but we had fun with them. My armor was made from cardboard and poster board, and Heather made my helmet from a milk jug, cardboard and duct tape. The whole thing was spray-painted with "stone look" paint. I'm pretty pleased with it. Heather spent hours braiding green yarn from her vast knitting stash into dreads, which of course are representative of snakes. We made a few strands of Sculpey beads and snake heads to finish off the look.