Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Hello, and happy weekend! As I've mentioned from the last blog post, 'Lavender and A Mallard Duck' , of what inspired me to paint this artwork. Now here it is, a holiday diary/album, basically, of Norfolk! Few months before going on holiday, my family and I decided to go on holiday in September, as well as to have a week with her birthday, unintentionally, and better time for work with their numbers of project deadlines. This was a very much needed holiday as my family and I not had a holiday since June 2019, hence, I have been working extra hours and every Saturday at work, so I do definitely need a holiday. And, this was our first holiday with our adopted dog Akira, which makes this holiday special altogether. We've booked our holiday in Norfolk on the 10th, and we impatiently looking forward to it! On 10th of September, we've packed our suitcases, shoving in my sister's car and off we went to Norfolk. This woodland as we drove through to Snettisham, where we...

 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...