Laura Mallaghan Illustration

The Milkweed butterfly, also in another name of the Monarch butterfly, inspired me when I watched BBC's Spy in the Wild Series 2 in February. In episode 2 "The North", in this scene located the mountain in West Mexico, with the Spy Hummingbird capturing the place that's considered the world's most beautiful natural gathering, where the Monarch butterflies hibernated during the winter. It was Spring, the Spy hummingbird flying around millions of butterflies resting on the oyamel fir trees (I just looked it up of what kind of tree because I can't remember what it was, hehe). When the sunshine on them, warmed their delicate wings, then started to fly. And when they fly, it was absolutely spectacular, all orange and flow through the trees. I imagined myself in there, underneath them and watching them as they migrate to North. I felt calm and delight thinking about it, it was awe-inspiring. Being called the Milkweed butterfly is because they feed on

Yesterday we had Mother's Day, here in the U.K. Anyone spoilt their mum with some sweet gifts, a bouquet of blossoming flowers, or a delicious box of chocolate? Or a simple, witty card. I know my mum loves chocolates, so I got her Hotel Chocolat. She enjoyed it very much as she ate the whole of it in one day. For Sunday Roast dessert, my sister and I made some Lemon Drizzle cupcakes. In the cakes filled with lemon zest and lemon drizzle, and the buttercream with lemon juice. Really, it was a very lemony taste! Also, we used some butterflies and daisy flowers for cake decoration which makes it more Mother's Day as well as the Spring season! Onto illustration topic, I have remembered that I have a quick drawing of a mother bird with her chicks I did 3 years ago, I thought that I can do a recreation! Just exactly what I did with the Birthday Bird illustration! Here's the original drawing from 3 years ago. Scroll down to see the recreation.

Hellooo. It's the 16th of March, sunny day here. So yesterday, I turned 27! I had a nice lie-in in the morning even though the weather was rainy, and in the evening my family and I went out for a meal. We went to the restaurant called Wildwood that recently opened and not been there, so I thought we could try it out. I had 'Beyond Meat' Vegan Burger and it was DELICIOUS! I had a marvellous birthday. Anyway, today I'm spending my day-off, from work, to do recreate new version from my old drawing that I drew 3 years ago. This is the original illustration from 3 years ago, a quick drawing with a fine-line pen. Now scroll down for the reveal... With colours! For this, you now know what kind of bird and be mesmerising by the chaffinch's colours. Have a good day.  🎂🐦