Taking into account i love kids illustrations, i wanted to show one more time, Jessie Willcox Smith´s work.

Jessie Willcox Smith was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1863. The first art school she attended was the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia (later Moore College of Art) but after a while she transfered to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She did not completely develope her own style until she started to study with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in 1894.

She published her illustrations in different magazines like St. Nicholas, Ladies Home Journal, Scribner or Harper. Also, she worked for "Good Housekeeping" magazine illustrating its covers showing american daily home life scenes, specially painting mothers taking care of their babies or paintings of innocent children.

Jessie Willcox Smith became popular not only publishing her illustrations in different magazines, but also illustrating children´s books, and eventually painting portraits.

The really like how she mix some outlines with flat shapes. Another recognizable characteristic of her work is that she draws the focal point or the main figure in the center of the composition. Also, eventhough she used a lit of different colors, they were not very bright, keeping all the palette in the same brighness.