Laura Mallaghan Illustration

 Helloooo! What I’ve done this month? Well, I have been painting a card for the long-standing loveable couple, who celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. Guess what, this couple is my aunt and uncle! I remembered their summery June wedding in 2003, and I was their bridesmaid. I was 10, I remembered the colour of the dress I wore, the bridesmaid bouquets, my aunt’s tropical bouquet and her creamy satin dress, the lovely weather on their special day! The meanings of the swan, flowers and colour I’ve painted on this wedding anniversary, with the mute swan they represents together forever, strong bond and family. As well as they’re very elegant bird, especially they can makes a heart shaped with the long neck. There are two flowers surrounded the swans, the little purple flower is aster, the reason to use this flower is because in modern day for a bouquet, also became the traditional bouquet, a gift for someone’s 20th wedding anniversary. Even though there a variety of colours aste...

  Hellooo. I’ve added this new greeting card in my Etsy shop, for Mother’s Day! A sweet greeting card of Mallard duck, a mother and her duckling, with a flower of pink carnation. I thought duck and duckling would make it more cute for Mother’s Day card, how little ducklings following their mother with their waddling little legs. And the mothers, when one or few of her ducklings get lost or stuck, she stay close and finds them, communicating with quacks so she can navigate them by hearing their calls. As this mother duck would say, no ducklings left behind! Did you know, the pink carnation flowers traditionally gifted for Mother’s Day and pink symbolises gratitude and love. This cute card are for mum, mum-to-be, step-mum, grandmother, and even for the one who step up to be your mums! Even the duckling is a baby, it doesn’t matter for all of the older children and adults, because mums sees you as her baby, even my mum say the same to me and both of my siblings!  Get this card fr...

Look how affectionate these two are on Valentine’s Day, so sweet.   This card will restock again next year! Have a lovely day.

Hello gals (and lovely guys). Happy Galentine’s Day! Have you messaged your best friends/gals that you love them and thinking about them. It’s the thought that counts, right? Since it’s today, this card will come back on listing again next year, for next Galentine’s Day! Have a nice day!

 Hello lovelies. I have two new listings in my Etsy shop! I have produced greeting cards for the upcoming celebrations, one is Valentines and one is Galentines, as Valentines is certainly more popular than Galentine but I’m thinking about all the single ladies, they do deserve some loves from their best gals. These little birds on Galentine card, the blue tits and female house sparrows, I imagined them as they’re hanging out together and twitting some gossips. I thought it’s cute! And the valentine card, two wood pigeons, although they’re the dopiest birds, they’re also affectionate to each other. With these two nuzzling to groom each other’s feathers, I thought its looks lovable! Before I ended it here, Galentine’s and Valentine’s Day are nearly 2 weeks, so I put down the links if you get them! Galentine cards:  https://www.etsy.com/uk/LauraMNatureArt/listing/1385205208/birds-gal-hangout-galentine-greeting Valentine cards:  https://www.etsy.com/uk/LauraMNatureArt/listing...

  Today’s Christmas Eve! And it’s going to be a busy day, prepping for tomorrow. I’ve got to do some gifts wrapping, tidy the Christmas decorations and baking my own Christmas biscuits. I won’t relax until Christmas night when my family and I get tired after eating the Christmas snacks! Anyway, here’s my painting, as my Christmas Bird collection, of a male Bullfinch perched on the Christmas wreath. The red and green, with subtle yellow and white, gives the Christmas vibes, although the red is more eye-catching.  I called this artwork The Christmas Red Wreath. I thought this male Bullfinch is a nice bird for Christmas in British, they works nicely with any Christmas objects. I’m lucky that I have a variety of plant in my garden I can get some inspiration. Like these two: This painting will be a Christmas card, which I will put up for sale later next year! I like to thanking you for reading this and all of my blogpost and wishing you a merry Christmas and have a joyful day. 🎄💜...

  I’ve got an announcement to make… I’ve reopened my Etsy shop! I have been planning this for a couple of years, lots of ideas and researching, and some encouragement and optimism from my friends and family , now’s the time and I’m ready for it. I’m quite exciting but at the same time nervous, I had some hope that it’ll be quite successful, more than I had 7 years ago. So what’s in my shop. At the moments I’m selling some Christmas greeting cards, which is perfect right now because it’ll be Christmas soon! Also, I did a makeover with my shop! They’re more fitting to my art style than it was before, as well as more nicely. Now planning on working on my story (with photos and video, ooooh), possibly at the start of next year as at the moment it’ll be quite busy, for this time of the year. These bird artworks from above are my Christmas birds collection that I’m selling as greeting cards in my shop at the moment. Very festive to send your family and friends for this Christmas! To shop...

  Look at all of these birds (missing the last three shown above) that I’ve painted every day for a month in October! My very first art challenge of this particular art I participated from Instagram, I enjoyed it very much. All these prompts that have picked really gave me some inspiration and motivation to paint. I’ve discovered that I learned a lot from it, for example, how I painted more flow each day, new knowledge of bird’s facts and causes of their decline, and how I admired their looks, especially the plumage.  Also I really appreciate the kindness from the bird lovers/artists community from Instagram! I have a quite few of favourites, which then gave me some ideas for the paintings. 👍😆 Here’s a gallery of my Birdtober paintings. If you like to see more, follow me @lauramillustration on Instagram. 😀 Thanks for reading and have a great weekend, and for the UK, happy Bonfire Night!