Biting Remarks may be Rewarded in Kind
Do not call me a scaredy cat or other catty names;
Don’t have a cow, but I refuse to buy into your games
Of calling me bull-headed, big fat cow, a silly goose,
Or loosey-goosey, bird-brained, or a dumb sheep. What the deuce
Do you think you are doing? For—sheepish as I may be—
I’m not so woolly-minded as your image is of me,
And once you’ve riled me up enough with childishness so tryin’,
I may just turn around and bite you hard, and I ain’t lion.
Art-Colored Glasses 
I love this. Your illustrations are wonderful:)
Thank you! I had a lot of fun fooling around with both the original line drawings and then the ways to use their backgrounds and textures to tie them together a bit (the B/W versions were done at different times). One never quite knows, when a picture begins, just where it will lead! As I’m sure you know very well yourself!
xoxo
The colours you get into your drawing are fantastic. The lion’s shading and eyes are stunning. Then to marry the colour with the black and white and of course the words are brilliant. Love it all.
As you can see by my reply to Janet, this was decidedly a figure-it-out-as-you-go kind of project, starting with the line drawings that were collected over a week or two, then seeing how the resemblance led to a poem, then finding the colors and textures to pull them together enough to justify their being grouped for the poem—and letting the lion be the most distinctive as the punchline illustration, so to speak. Always a learning curve, every drawing, every post, and a bit of experimentation. Two steps forward, one back…. 🙂
Haven’t seen any ‘steps back’ as fat as I am concerned 🙂 🙂
Brilliant illustrations! Those eyes on the lion are shining fiercely! And great accompanying words too. Repayment in kind! Ouch!! 😄
Most of the time when repayment in kind is promised, it’s not particularly kind! A little ironic, perhaps. 😉 Keep shining, yourself, dear Christine! xoxo,
Kathryn
as usual so attractive, so colorful and very much impressive.
May Allah bless you sister 🙂 ameen
For you I had better make the animal a dove of peace, because you always make me feel so happy and calm and comforted with your sweet remarks!
Love and blessings to you as well, my lovely sister! 🙂
🙂 okay let’s wait for dove now 😉
🙂
xoxo
I loved this prose! And I ain’t lion! 🐯
(((Blushing sheepishly.))) 😉
How the heck do you know how to make all of those cool emoticons! You’re quite the artiste with them!! 😀
They are part of my keyboard on my Galaxy s4. I loved stickers as a kid and I these remind me of them. 👟🗼🚕🎭🎺💍 some are pretty odd!
What fun! Odd is, of course, entirely appropriate hereabouts anyway. As you obviously know by now. 😉
Wonderful artwork as usual! And umm…I won’t “udder” another word lol.
Ha! How udderly fantastic that you enjoyed it all! 🙂
Okay okay, don’t have a cow over this willl ya? 😛
lovely, a real treat.
Thank you, my friend! I know you have quite the eye (and heart) for animals, not least of all your dear Nechama, so even though I don’t have any live animal companions sharing my home with me, I can at least share some of those that live in my internal zoo! 🙂
My fav is the indignant kitty:)
Is that redundant? Many kitties I know seem perpetually indignant—though, of course, they can hardly be blamed if they’re faced constantly with silly humans! 😀
Kathryn, your illustrations are amazing, love the colors and your words are a wonderful complement, too! Hope you are doing well! 🙂
Thanks, Lauren, I did the critters on different occasions but had a pretty good time at the last, trying to make them work together sufficiently for the piece. Life is good. Have a beautiful weekend!!!
xo
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Beautiful work and very entertaining, Kathryn! XO
Thank you! Not nearly as dainty and sweetly made as *your* creatures, to be sure, but I had fun with them all the same. 😉
xoxo!
More! More!! Love the goose, esp. I deMAND to see mOre!
I’m delighted you like my little zoo. I guess I just can’t help monkeying around. 😉
xoxo
Ha ha ha. Keep monkeying ’round.