Laura Mallaghan Illustration

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!

It's the first weekend of November, the leaves are starting to change colours quite quick as well as starting to fall off the tree a lot, and the temperature went colder. Getting close to winter! In the last week of October, my next-door neighbour has got married! A few weeks before their big day, they have asked to look after their cats while they're away for a few days, agreed to do this for them, that's what nice neighbour do, hehehe. Throughout weeks, I thought I should do a handmade wedding greeting card using the painting as my original artwork, quite like a personal handmade. To use the bird that represents being together for life, I chose the swan as they're, of course, elegant and make a soft look on the card. Using white on the light background was quite difficult, even though I was using a cream card. I don't want to use too much white as it will make it look too heavy, adding water ended up too washy, hence I have been experimenting for quite a while. In