The “On Note” series, as Erlich calls them, are her own personal project and began when, one day, she started doodling what she saw around her on a page from a music book using coloured markers and pencils. Erlich has since developed the concept using the spaces between the notes and staves to draw romantic or humorous scenes from the city and the surrounding countryside. She sometimes even gives her drawings a theme, as is the case in “Forest Adventure” where we follow a family and their black-and-white cat as they spend a day in the woods, or in the funny “CrossFit” illustration where little figures run up and down the page while doing their cross-fit routines amongst the notes (indicated to be played at the lively tempo of allegretto vivace). Beautifully drawn and coloured, these miniature illustrations are definitely the work of a skilled illustrator, one that can conjure a sense of place and story within the confined space of a few bars of music.