Mother Owl and her Owlets | Happy Mother's Day | Illustration

 


Happy Mother's Day!

Today's 14th of March, celebrating all mums in the U.K., I've spoiled my mum with a fancy gift box full of goodies, they're chocolate treats and a lovely gin, by the way, and she absolutely loves them as she plans to devour them tonight!

For this Mother's Day illustration I have been working on owls, I selected the barn owl as inspired by the t.v show Inside The Zoo from BBC, that I've watched with my mum, there were two barn owl brothers with amusing personalities and my mum enjoyed watching them and thought they're cute! 

To start with, I sketched the mother and three owlets on black paper, for the colours I originally use coloured pencils, the Zenacolor.





The coloured pencils have backfired as they don't work well on this satin texture paper, not how I wanted to look, so I've decided to use gouache paints. And they work better, although it needs to be layered.


















When I look at my artwork, this reminded me of the children's book I remember reading called Owl Babies (by Martin Waddell), not sure it's the same owl specie but have three owlets with their mother.


Hope you and your mum have a lovely day today, and thanks for reading!







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