Laura Mallaghan Illustration

 Merry Christmas! We're having a wet Christmas here, I like the frosty or misty on a Christmas Day, because that how I remember when I was a little girl, just right for British winter weather. Over the last weekend, I have been painting this little cutie with some berries, that looks very Christmasy, imagine this as a Christmas card! This artwork is called 'Long-tailed Tit Having Some Red Berries for Christmas', this berry is similar to what we humans have for our Christmas dinner, the cranberry sauce, although this is cherry from the cherry tree. I have found this twig with berries from outside by my workplace, using it for the reference and inspiration. Here's the photo reference of berried twig. As I stared at this almost wilted twig, there were few small birds flew to perch and picking some berries, I was inspired for the Christmas painting. The small bird I chose to have is white-headed Long-tailed Tit, they looks really cute and works well with the Christmas style

Seeing the orange leaves made me wearing all of my cosy jumpers, as well as it's really cold outside! As I was warming myself up by the radiator, 2 weeks ago on Saturday, from my bedroom window I saw a pigeon perched on the Birch tree, watching me. Seeing the surrounding I was inspired, so I took out my phone to get some pictures for visual reference. This is what I see from my window: Took four photos whilst this pigeon watching me, still fluffed its' feather for warmth.    And then I started to draw! As I writing this, it's snowing here, right now! Now I'm in a mood for hot chocolate for extra cosy. Hope you have your cosiness by wrapping yourself up with a hot drink as you're reading this! Thanks for reading and have a nice evening!