The artist is Dave E. Phillips. His picture is showing a typical, but different look to a fairytale. You have little red riding hood standing upon a stump, and the big bad wolf. I don’t think the artist was really trying to accomplish anything besides trying to recreate an iconic story, but adding his own style to it, his own views on the story maybe. The title of this is "Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye." This is taken from a short type poem called "The Spider and the Fly." In that story it's lesson is saying how one shouldn't stand around being idle, but on guard and wary. Which is vaguely what's being shown in his picture. I just really like this piece, it’s kind of incomplete, but really isn’t at the same time and I like that it’s not a full picture. It reminds me of how some stories suddenly end, a cliffhanger. Again, the only thing I don’t really like is the use of darker colours but it really fits the scene, and may be used to foreshadow an event if the story was told in picture.
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