Laura Mallaghan Illustration

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!

Hello all, This may not be an illustration-related, but I would like to share so many photos I took from last week because they look so magical! Odin, the foster Akita, was all fascinated with the snow, we think, on that day, it was his first time experiencing the snow. Also, we find it very cute when he was playing around on the snow and covered in snow. All these photos are in order of the timeline. Saturday 23rd January (2021) : Snowed for the first time this year, but a short and thin layer of snow. Sunday 24th January : Started to snow heavily in the afternoon, progressively thicker on the ground. Plus, some entrancing night photos ; Monday 25th January : A sunny day It is a lot of photos I have taken, but it makes the photos looks so interesting, as we don't get much snow in the middle of England. Thanks for taking your times to look through my snow photo album, hope you enjoyed it!