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Breathtaking! I love the way you've done the forest, it's so magical! I'd best get back to finishing my penguins...xx

Simplismente lindo!

Beautiful! I love the glowing atmosphere!

Absolutely beautiful Kathy!! Hope you're enjoying your granddaughter!!

Wonderful, i like very much your bear and music in the forest. Congrats :)
Have a nice tuesday. Kind regards

Soft and furry very gentle and sweet. Beautiful.

Beautiful , I love the colors ! ^_^

so gorgeous!

Wow!!! It is so nice!!! I love it :)
Sonata

Beautiful!!

Love it Kathy, it's so colourful, for some reason it reminds me of the Snowman must be the style cause theres alot less colour in that lol!

Love it!Great illustration,love the colours and the concept!

Kathy,
OMG...I love this one! I play violin and viola...this melts my heart! Your artwork is beautiful and warm!

kathy - i like this alot!

Exquisite! I just love the colors! Her hair is just gorgeous! Well done Kathy!

wow, this is lovely, I really like the idea also

Oh Kathy! This is wonderful. Not only the composition, the characters, but that background is amazing. You are such a talent. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work with us.

what a beautiful concept and execution!! love the violin, the characters...(the girl reminds me of my daughter when she's playing her violin,and the bear could be my brother playing his chello ;)...the magical forest...and I can just hear the music...Vivaldi's 4 Season.

Very sweet! Again--such luminous colors!

Your colors always sing right off the page! It is lovely! :)

I can't help opening my mouth wide each time I see your work, Kathy!
Gorgeous!!!

Super stuff!

Gorgeous Kathy!

Beautiful Kathy x

It's really beautiful!
I love the colors in this illo.

This is why you don't find any women on the nude beaches in France.

If the definition for the word "Yecchh" can be found in the dictionary, this is definitely the illustration that should accompany it!
Totally disturbing, great work, and an excellent suggestion for this week's theme!

Well, I had to look up the meaning in the dictionary and now can truly say: Yecchh!

Ah, i like the mood of this one. the deep red you used adds to it! :)

Beautiful work!

WOW!!

Very beautiful. I love the way the background of trees echo the feeling of strings.

Wow is right! Just beautiful!!!

Beautiful kathy!!!!!!! What gorgeous color you have on the background. I can look at that all day long.

Absolutely beautiful!

beautiful!

Holy moly, that's good! You've got the magic touch, my friend!

You really have a talent for making things soft, vibrant, fresh, colorful and alive all at the same time. I can almost hear them!

Great blog- love your technique and work!

OH!!! Kathy!!!!
Vivaldi plus your beautiful characters are an awesome story.
Bellissimo, bellissimo, bellissimo.
Cata

Gorgeous work as always!! lovely scene... =)

Hi Kathy, I've been trying to think laterally for IF too and keep coming back to things hanging! This is exquisite especially the setting with those gorgeous colours, another masterpiece :)

Hey, another great idea, i like it very much.

Wow, again the magical sweet soft colours here mild my heart.
Sweet autumn, this season is to be cherished...with great partner, it definitely works well all season:)

I would love to be in the audience of their woodland concert.
Very nice Kathy.

beautiful. I love the fall colors

it's amazing,love the composition and the atmosphere you've done

Awesome use of color, and I love the bear!

Stunning!
Sandra

Simply gorgous illo, Kathy!

:)

Wow-- really beautiful. I love this.

WOW! I really like this one - the multicolor leaves and trees, the modern Goldilocks and bear...Great stuff.

If you go down to the woods today your sure of a FANTASTIC surprise.

Another great piece, fab technique (yours and the bears)

Beautiful! Everything is beautiful! Love the colours of the background!

Really nice color...great posing on the bear

Beautiful, beautiful! I love that bear, he looks huggable!

Lovely take on the traditional string instrument idea that so many of us have done (including myself). I love the colours in the forest and it is nice that girl and bear are friends. I really love the illos you did for Sugary and also Packed. Your illustrations always seem very well planned, the compositions are great, the pencil application is gentle but there is still always enough contrast, the colours are harmonious, the characters are charming and you seem to be able to gage just the right amount of detail, not too much, not too little. I always admire your work as you can see :)

just gorgeous!!!

Lovely!!

Wonderful! I love how your portfolio is being buit so strongly with your IF illos lately. They are allsuch strong pieces.

This is pure magic Kathy- it is stunning to me!-John

Wow, your work is just beautiful. You really manage to capture such a glow in your colours, and such feeling in your expressions. Beautiful. I love Mr Ogre, but your illo for "island" takes my breath away!

The mood is wonderful here! I love the light so subtle behind the trees, and the girls hair is amazing! Completely magical! Wonderful!

Kathy, it's just pure joy visiting here! I love the colors! Does it take a long time to create your pieces with color pencil? I adore your style! Bravo!

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I ALWAYS love your work. I want to steal you backgrounds. (I'm kind of funn that way.)

Wow ... what beautiful soft colours... really cool painting... I also love 'Island' and 'Clique'

Your style is just like candy!!! All the wonderful details and colors. I'd like to see these two in concert. They are just fantastic!!!

Soooooweeeet! Love this!

Absolutely Sublime In The Extreme!!!

what a beautiful illustration, and on a paper bag no less. I'm very impressed. Great work.

I am so impressed with the visual pictures that you paint with your words!! ... and what you can do with a paper bag... amazing!

really nice. the colour on the paper really works

Oh I hate it when that happens. I am glad that each pearl is knotted. My pearl necklace broke and has to be restrung. I love the woman's hair. It l;ooks like she uses a good shampoo and conditioner. She also has very nice lips.

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Isn't that wonderful! Goes to show that art can be done if you set your mind to it, no matter the conditions! This is really neat...I love it!

These pieces of paperbag fine artwork is turning into an amazing series. You have got to keep going on this, they are truely wonderful!

Your bag art is so fun! Great idea for strings.

You're really good at these Laurel! Love the angle and hair rendering.

When did you move Laurel (or is it just your studio that you closed?) Anyhow I love your table art - it's very freeing to create with limited supplies and believe you me I experienced that a LOT this past year with renovating one studio, then moving cross country! Anyhow, I'm going to get in touch with you soon via email to catch up, take care my friend :>

Hugs,
Laura
xo

Another brilliant paper bag painting!

This is so beautiful - and such a poetic idea. I really love these works on brown paper - dreamy and inspiring and really lovely!

this is amazingly 'whew' i do so love your art, you paint from deep inside you. hey lolo, that table is worth it's weight in gold!!happi IF hugs and wfs

Some of the best work is done under limited conditions, and you are showing us how that can be done. I'm pretty impressed friend! Hope all is well,...it's been a busy and frantic week around here, bike riding was the highlight!

Great idea,so beautiful.

Well, Kiddo, you've done it again. If IF ever gives Illustration of the week to someone twice it will be you. This is an amazing take on the word and and equally impressive illo. Bravo!

i absolutely love this! looks so graceful with her hair and the pearls flying

Fabulous idea!!

Scattered pearls on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams...a beautiful composition.

Oh, this is great. Has a great feel and I love the materials. As usual, another wonderful piece.

Really beautiful, all those precious, shiny pearls flying in the air. Amazing what you can do with a paper bag and just a few supplies! :-)

Great ideas! So amazingly beautiful!

omg, lollie...this is so beautiful. i love the tension in her face, the pearls....just stunning.

I think you're flying since you settled at that table. I great shifting of gears.

Beautiful illustration and words! I love your works on paper bag, strongly feel some story hiding behind them!

Some people (like me) wait for the right time, place, pencil and pad to sit down and try to make art. Some people (like you) just sit down and do it. I wish I were more like you.

My day would be SO much more better and brighter if your art were on all my brown paper bags. Exquisite and poetic!

This is stunning! A glorious combination of illustration and word! OUTSTANDING! :)

Beautiful illustration, the paper bag definitely adds something to these illustrations - love 'sugary' too

i adore the stories you weave with your illustrations. they are really very good. great stuff again.

Beautiful Lolo!
The brown paper is amazing. Love your words and illustration!

applause! I am really liking your paper bag illustrations. i think you are quite onto something there!

I have always found that drawing on paper bags was liberating. Nice work. I particularly like the sugar illustration. Beautifully drawn.

wonderful! i love it, the composition, subject and paper bag backdrop :)

this is the first time i visit your blog and i am so glad that i have visited you. Your illustrations are very reflective and subtle. Your paintings with your words are impressive. Last blogger I know your type of genre is soulbrush and i like you both.

I can see how this scenario would be quite the disaster! The use of the paper bag is an inspired choice of surface.

ooooohhh! me encanta! que curiosa es.

I like this illustration!
Saludos

Beautiful work

Wonderful work!
It's so dynamic, I can almost see this illustration as a slow motion sequence.
Fantastic use of a simple paper bag, its color and texture really enhances your art.

beautifully done! thanks for your comment on mine!

Very whimsical! Beautiful

What a great take on the topic!

Fully of whimsy - and letting go is what I see. Love the lines and strings in this piece.

Great work with this new bag media :)

I have to agree with Get Zapped, this looks like letting go to me too. What a delightful way to express the bittersweeetness of it all, with your words and the lovely flowing hair, with pearl floating magically in the air. (hey that rhymed, hee hee.)

Yep, I'm going to have to also go along with the others on loving the paper bag art as well. Just love how the image jumps right off it.

Thanks for your comments everyone! I'm really enjoying my limited supplies at the moment.

Get Zapped and Sketched Out: You're right, I was going for a feeling of loss here. The man who gave her those pearls is no longer with her, so when the pearls broke and were scattering in the wind it was breaking her heart all over again.
I was searching poetry sites for the right words when my husband said "Anything you write will be better than trying to match it to someone else's words." So, I thank him for the encouragement!

wonderful illustration and thecomposition

This is awesome! i am loving the paper bag series :)

Beautiful image- idea- and poetry! really get the sense of that pelted feeling the heart feels from seeing things fly off- lost into the air

i really like this, it has a letting go or cutting loose quality to me. michael dailey

Beautiful...particularly with the texture of the paper bag, and the sense of pearls flying as naturally as the wind itself...and the hailstones pelting the heart....

This is so beautiful. True creativity comes when you can use anything handy. I love those pearls!

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Wow reminds me of a Moleskine. Love it! You should frame it... or sell prints of them to cover text books. Do people still do that?