Laura Mallaghan Illustration

It's Summer Bank Holiday today! I had lovely long bank holiday weekend, as I have spend whole weekend and today some illustrations that I'm catching up. I have missed illustrating very, very much as I'm working on the weekday and most of the weekend I have been busy, as well as felt drained from work that I needed some relaxation. Since the Summer is nearly end and haven't been blogged this month yet. So I thought the topic of this blog is photography.  This photography is all about the insects that I took many photos of from this summer and the past. Here are the collections of each year in Summer. Summer 2017  28th August : I helped this poor Large White butterfly today, he was in the middle of my garden, struggling to fly, I gave him some water from my fingers and placed him on the flowers from large flower pot if he need some nectaries as well as to rest. 9th July : Honey bee collected some pollen from the lavender.  22nd May : I saw thi...

Merry Christmas!  I had a wonderful Christmas today, with my grandma (Mum's), uncle (Mum's), Mum, brother and sister. I got some lovely presents, nice Christmas dinner, watched Jungle Book (2015 version), charades and Cluedo in Simpson version. I enjoyed it today. My Christmas illustrations of robin on the cards, only two, for grandma and uncle, as requested by my mum. They really like my Christmas illustrations, I thought they looks sweet. Hope you had a lovely Christmas!

Here are my illustrations of Shy British Badger full of curiosity.  The first Shy British Badger illustration is acrylic paint, with much more water, along with colour pencil, the paint actually gives some textures. The second illustration is a favourite, it's colour pencil. Also did in digital, but still stick with colour pencil. And finally, front face illustration actually looks cute.

I posted this illustration on my instagram ( @lauramillustration ) on 5th November, to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, as known as Bonfire Night and Firework Night, here in Great Britain. This bird... is on FIRE. Looking phenomenal? 😁 Here are my original two illustration. It's a Blue Tit. Hope you had a good Firework Night! Were you being kind to the wildlife and their home while you did the firework display? I hope you kindly did.

I went to London on 11th August with my mum, both younger brother and sister, a day out for my wonderful mum's birthday. Hopped onto the train at 10.26 in the morning, an hour travel to St Pancras station. The weather was really warm and sunshine, luckily. Firstly we were having a lunch in Russell Square garden, before going to the museum. Into the entrance, the building looked magnificent, either Greek or Roman style, as I have history interest of Greek and Roman. Once we went inside, we were given 2 hours to look around because we planned to go to Fortune Theatre to see Woman In Black. As we decided to go in British Museum for our spare time before theatre. Walked into the entrance from the photo above, we were draw by the enormous, majestic stair on the left side. And that lead us to the history of coins and money, we have seen the tiniest coins, the largest coins, stylish, shapes, and so on. Next room was the Greek, one of my favourite eras. They showed the jeweller...

I went to Cyprus on 5th June with my family, for a week. The weather was so nice, sunshine everyday, and the temperature was nicely hot. The hotel i stayed was stunning, it have the pool, with pool bar, lots of sun loungers and the beach was just straight to it. The breakfast buffets were so delicious, even had little cake for breakfast. They have tennis court that we were looking forward to play. Some family holiday snaps -  I have done some sketching, observationally, and some photographs of Cyprus' trees, flowers and plants. I'm missing the Cyprus breakfast buffet and weather, holiday blue...