Laura Mallaghan Illustration

  In July 16th, the hottest Saturday, I have been painting outside for the first time in years. With the weather like that, even that was about 30 degree Celsius, I thought I could do painting outside, having a natural light is better to see, especially when I used the metallic paints on this painting. I actually painted underneath the parasol and wore a hat of course, I do not like a sunburn, until later into the evening I burned on my right side. Because I forgot to move myself as the sun move, silly me! Anyway, the nicest time of the day was in the evening. Nice warm air, still better light to see the painting, I even had a glass of rosé next to me! It was bliss. Have a nice weekend. 🎨💜

  In this blog, I’m talking about the painting process of this big painting, as well as what inspired me. First things first, what inspired me to do the big painting, for the first time. All thanks to my work colleague! She’s not really a painter but she actually found her new talent with the painting recently. When she said, many months ago, that she’ll try painting for the first time with the canvas that sat in her house for ages, this canvas is not the small size for the first try, no, it was huge, roughly A1 size. I thought that was very brave of her to do it, especially for the first time. Each time she painted it, she showed me the photos of her process and we talked about what to add, the inspiration, the colours, the failure and success. She even surprised herself with how good her painting is, I also was very impressed by her big painting! Speaking of inspiration, she searched the images search of large paintings, including the birds for me. With every image she showed me, the

Guess what… I finally finished this painting! All that little free time I had since mid-April, it’s finished and framed, looks great, doesn’t it?  Right now, I’m debating whether this painting is going to be on my wall or sell it. Here are all these close-up details from the painting, and the best bit of this is has a metallic! Looks amazeballs, right? As I mentioned from the beginning, if you’re really interested in buying this painting, let me know in the comment! (in U.K only) Thanks for reading and have a lovely week! (P.s. I looked tiny with my framed artwork, hahaha. 😆)