Laura Mallaghan Illustration

  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...

 Merry Christmas! We're having a wet Christmas here, I like the frosty or misty on a Christmas Day, because that how I remember when I was a little girl, just right for British winter weather. Over the last weekend, I have been painting this little cutie with some berries, that looks very Christmasy, imagine this as a Christmas card! This artwork is called 'Long-tailed Tit Having Some Red Berries for Christmas', this berry is similar to what we humans have for our Christmas dinner, the cranberry sauce, although this is cherry from the cherry tree. I have found this twig with berries from outside by my workplace, using it for the reference and inspiration. Here's the photo reference of berried twig. As I stared at this almost wilted twig, there were few small birds flew to perch and picking some berries, I was inspired for the Christmas painting. The small bird I chose to have is white-headed Long-tailed Tit, they looks really cute and works well with the Christmas style...