'Lantern' designs

Here are the three main designs that I want to experiment with. I have created the backgrounds separately so that I can print them out and trace them onto the lino and the pruple/red bits are also separate and as illustrator vector files to be cut out on the laser cuter.

The plan is, to print the black background onto the card first so I know where to cut the design. The laser will then cut the characters etc out of the card with the lino print. Ill then put tissue paper behind, and voila! I have lanterns!

Hansel and Gretal

Simple forest background to set the scene, and cut out children, house and crow. Im hoping to have purple toned paper in the cut out sections to give it a dark feel.

Little Red Riding Hood 

The same simple forest background, and cut out Wolf and Little Red. Its not as strongly rooted to the fairytale, as the wolf is abit obscure but it still presents a rather spooky looking feel due to the proportions of the two characters together. Ill use red paper behind the cut out bits to reflect the 'Little Red Riding Hood' bit.

Snow White

Simple cloud like background coming from the apple to show its not a normal one. Its creates a basic setting that dosent distract too much from the main figure. There isnt really one setting for Snow white [unlike Red Riding which is set in a forest], so the background isnt as important.

I chose to make a Snow White lantern aswell, because it is one of my favourite fairytales stories and I could make it very gothic and stylized, drawing upon influences from victorian silhouette portraits and the art nouveau movement which seemed to praise the female form.

Its also a very dark and macabre tale in some place, obviously not talking about the Disney version. The evil queen tries to kill Snow White many times with various tricks and this is the aspect I want to focus on.

This lanetern shows Snow white about to take a bite out of the apple which will send her to sleep. [i think in the original tale, its kills her.]