Lauren Konopacki's Faves

Following artwork is a rough cartoon of a figure drawing sketch in charcoal on midtone paper.

March 2018

Frida Boreal ✦

Black and White chaos emerges when I start working with ink markers...

One of commissioned project of watercolor illustration for bridesmaid's attire guide.

Pen and ink doodles and tangles with Microns

They gather around, grateful, sending prayers up just to thank. (Directed at the man selected to be in the tank.) Who knows why that man is bare in there, and to be frank- They're thankful that it's him, not them. You can take that to the bank!

I go to meetings, therefore I doodle. This small collection is just tip of the iceberg ...

pen and ink and colored pencil

Coffee, newspapers and sleeping bird.

27 x 37,5 cms

27 x 37,5 cms

Our local antiques store had a huge treasure trove of vintage Native American themed toys and gifts this weekend. I realized that 1) I'd owned a lot of them and 2) none of my friends had. It never occurred to me that my collection was particularly large or unique. Doesn't every kid have a fixation on this country's indigenous population? Apparently not. I love the visual language of the Navajo and Hopi especially. My Kachina doll collection was the bomb.

Vintage toys have amazingly quirky and often so-joyous-they're-creepy faces.