Lesser Redpoll and the June Blooms | Greeting Card | Illustration

Happy Saturday, and guess what, yesterday (17th June) was the hottest day of the year, also it was my aunt’s birthday! I imagined she had a really good birthday that she has been outside sunbathing with a glass of cold wine with her family. What a blissful day to spend.

Speaking of birthdays, I have been painting a personal birthday card, for my aunt, of course, using the birds and wild plants with their meaning.

Let’s start with the bird, this is the Lesser Redpoll, a finches type of bird and small, slightly bigger than blue tit to compare the size. It has streaky marks and is brown with red spot on its forehead and sometimes a patch on the breast. They’re commonly in Scotland, northern and eastern England, they’re seen in woodland, also visit in the garden. They like to hang upside down on the small twigs from the tree, an easy way to spot them, especially in the season when leaves fall from the trees.

A reason I chose this bird is that my aunt lives in Yorkshire, which is in the northern, and as mentioned as this bird has red markings, it reminds me of her because she has naturally dark red or auburn. 

Onto the wild plants, I painted four flowers which are Agrimonia (yellow spike, background), Fox-and-cubs (red-orange flower), Lesser Centaury (pink flower), and Creeping Jenny (yellow flower spreading, foreground). A reason for these wildflowers is simply because they bloom in June. So that’s that.

(Aunt j comment?) My aunt had opened this card yesterday and she thought my painting looks amazing, showered me some compliments on me how talented I am which made me all blush. Heheh.

Plus, a special addition as a signature to my greeting card artwork.

Soon, I will write about my new signature stamp and what I’ve stamped onto.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the cool weekend after the hottest day, as for me, I’m in holiday mode, for a week!