Laura Mallaghan Illustration

 Hello, I'm back, again, after a month.  I've managed to finish this artwork since mid-July that I've started, with all the spare time I had trying to complete this painting. So here it is! About this artwork Little Peevish Pigeon and Little Pretty Pansy, I have been thinking about the time from August last year, when we had a young pigeon hiding in the garden flower bed, as it was fledgling. My family and I have been watching the juvenile, as well as our foster Akita Spirit, with its' daily activities in the garden. We then went outside to take a closer look, surprisedly it wasn't spooked by us and sat in the spot, and then Spirit got curious of it and got closer to it gently, that youngster was not happy and gave him quite a big peck. Poor boy got spook and respectfully back away. Here are the videos of Spirit watching the pigeon. He was such a gentle giant, so cute. Anyway, I was inspired by these photo references to paint from it! From that point of painting the

Hello peeps. Back in February, walking with Odin, the previous foster dog, and my sister to the countryside, as I was talking to my sister, behind her I spotted something red through the tall dried weeds, it was a Bullfinch! I was gaspingly amazed, quickly I whipped out the phone and captured some pictures, here are the photo references;  The fact is, Bullfinch is so rare to be seen, even though males have a very distinguish redbreast, hence that's what I noticed, even 3 metres roughly from where I stood and surrounded by the dull plants and lack of light due to the winter weather. Thereafter, I looked at these photos again, felt inspired to paint, as well as make them like an enhancement from the photos, a clearer image of what I saw at the time.   Every time I walk across the same path, I have not seen the male Bullfinch... yet. Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

I know I'm a few day lates for Earth Day, but I just want to show my water paint to celebrate it! I was aware of Earth Day on Thursday, didn't know it was celebrated on Wednesday, I started painting on Thursday, finished it this afternoon! For Earth Day, I appreciate nature grows in my home country, they help all wildlife, the view of the countryside that I always take a deep breath and feel relax by looking at all these trees, flowers, greens and animals. To dedicate it, I decided to paint from the photo I took a while ago from bird watching, so I replicate from the photo. From this bird watching photograph - To this water paint -  I did this a quick painting although it took a while to dry as it will blend onto other parts, I have work on layers. As I was planning to finish it on the same day as I started, with this drying time, I couldn't finish it on the day so have to move to the next day.  I'm ver