Laura Mallaghan Illustration

  Happy Mother's Day! Today's 14th of March, celebrating all mums in the U.K., I've spoiled my mum with a fancy gift box full of goodies, they're chocolate treats and a lovely gin, by the way, and she absolutely loves them as she plans to devour them tonight! For this Mother's Day illustration I have been working on owls, I selected the barn owl as inspired by the t.v show Inside The Zoo from BBC, that I've watched with my mum, there were two barn owl brothers with amusing personalities and my mum enjoyed watching them and thought they're cute!  To start with, I sketched the mother and three owlets on black paper, for the colours I originally use coloured pencils, the Zenacolor. The coloured pencils have backfired as they don't work well on this satin texture paper, not how I wanted to look, so I've decided to use gouache paints. And they work better, although it needs to be layered. When I look at my artwork, this reminded me of the children's b...

The final experiment/development outcome, the idea of animals peeping through the tree. My idea of the theme of Covert is about whats inside the tree and in forest, that animals lives there mystery way. Drawn with soft pastels and black ink on hand-wash cotton. 

Here are some more development drawings of British Barn owl for the Covert project. Same drawing medias, biro pen, HB sketch pencil and fine line pen, and I added another drawing media to experiment was marker pen, it was a bit worn out but work well. I think birds are quite easy to draw, so i will draw them more.