Laura Mallaghan Illustration

On Friday, I got home from Norfolk for a very much needed holiday and I felt really relax and enjoyed it very much, it had been 2 years since I went on holiday. Can't believe I'm home after a week of holiday, it felt so quick! While I was in Norfolk and exploring there, I felt so inspired. As soon as I got home, I started to draw and paint! To explain what inspired me will be the next blog after this, as well as a holiday diary. Have a nice day and thanks for taking the time to read this! 😊

Here's an another pet portrait of my second foster rabbit. I'd like another reminder about having rabbits from Easter time. As I mentioned in this blog post: Rabbits are for life, not just for Easter , that we had one in this situation, a rabbit bought for Easter gift and later abandoned in the street. This is April the Abandoned Easter Rabbit. Back in 2012, Easter Day was on the 8th of April, a couple of weeks after Easter weekend, the kind people spotted her between the outer back garden and the field, comforted her while waiting for the RSPCA inspector. My family were informed about her and we went to collect her. My family and I named her April because she was rescued in April and we also thought it's suited her. She was a mini Rex, she does have a really nice velvety fur coat. She was quite shy but doesn't mind the human company around her, so she was a very sweet girl, and we thought she's a young doe. As we thought she's young, we assumed she must've

  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