Laura Mallaghan Illustration

  Today’s Christmas Eve! And it’s going to be a busy day, prepping for tomorrow. I’ve got to do some gifts wrapping, tidy the Christmas decorations and baking my own Christmas biscuits. I won’t relax until Christmas night when my family and I get tired after eating the Christmas snacks! Anyway, here’s my painting, as my Christmas Bird collection, of a male Bullfinch perched on the Christmas wreath. The red and green, with subtle yellow and white, gives the Christmas vibes, although the red is more eye-catching.  I called this artwork The Christmas Red Wreath. I thought this male Bullfinch is a nice bird for Christmas in British, they works nicely with any Christmas objects. I’m lucky that I have a variety of plant in my garden I can get some inspiration. Like these two: This painting will be a Christmas card, which I will put up for sale later next year! I like to thanking you for reading this and all of my blogpost and wishing you a merry Christmas and have a joyful day. 🎄💜  

It’s Cyber week, that means my items are on sale, 20% off! Perfect to shop for Christmas, buy my Christmas Bird collection greeting cards or other stuffs I also sell such as wall art and tote bag. Go and have a look! 🛍 Link to my shop:  https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LauraMNatureArt Have a nice shopping! 🎄💜

  I’ve got an announcement to make… I’ve reopened my Etsy shop! I have been planning this for a couple of years, lots of ideas and researching, and some encouragement and optimism from my friends and family , now’s the time and I’m ready for it. I’m quite exciting but at the same time nervous, I had some hope that it’ll be quite successful, more than I had 7 years ago. So what’s in my shop. At the moments I’m selling some Christmas greeting cards, which is perfect right now because it’ll be Christmas soon! Also, I did a makeover with my shop! They’re more fitting to my art style than it was before, as well as more nicely. Now planning on working on my story (with photos and video, ooooh), possibly at the start of next year as at the moment it’ll be quite busy, for this time of the year. These bird artworks from above are my Christmas birds collection that I’m selling as greeting cards in my shop at the moment. Very festive to send your family and friends for this Christmas! To shop the

  Look at all of these birds (missing the last three shown above) that I’ve painted every day for a month in October! My very first art challenge of this particular art I participated from Instagram, I enjoyed it very much. All these prompts that have picked really gave me some inspiration and motivation to paint. I’ve discovered that I learned a lot from it, for example, how I painted more flow each day, new knowledge of bird’s facts and causes of their decline, and how I admired their looks, especially the plumage.  Also I really appreciate the kindness from the bird lovers/artists community from Instagram! I have a quite few of favourites, which then gave me some ideas for the paintings. 👍😆 Here’s a gallery of my Birdtober paintings. If you like to see more, follow me @lauramillustration on Instagram. 😀 Thanks for reading and have a great weekend, and for the UK, happy Bonfire Night!