Laura Mallaghan Illustration

  Hello lovelies. Did you know yesterday was Earth Day? A reminder for our home planet, we should be kind and do something to help. We can reduce the plastic uses, swap to reusable items, eat less meat, reduce food wastes, and plants some trees! This is the flower I painted to use as collage the shape of earth, and with two colours to tinted this flower, which give some details of water and land. Pretty, isn’t it? Have a nice day. 🌍💚

Rabbits are for life, not just for Easter. A week from today is Easter Day! This illustration is about an awareness of not to buy rabbits for an Easter gift to children, thinking they're an easy starter pet. (And the chicks!) I have been doing this illustration for the past few years, this becoming a thing for every year when it's closer to Easter, to promote awareness from animal rescues, rabbit owners and rabbit lovers (like me!) to think before buying something for Easter, as we don't want many abandoned rabbits, do we!  There was an example of a similar case from one of my foster rabbits! Although these two rabbits here, weren't abandoned a while after Easter, I like to talk about what it was like for them to go through, by trying to survive out in the strange world that they were not made to be. It's sympathising to think of their tough life. Meet Fudge and Cherry and their rescue story! Fudge was a brown rabbit and Cherry was a black rabbit, and they're si...

It's Good Friday today! And good weather here with 22C and sunshine. I'm waiting for Easter Sunday so that I'll have some Easter chocolate eggs and devour it. On behalf of all the rabbits, I want to make awareness about rabbits at Easter time, rabbits are 10 to 12 years commitment, not as Easter gift! People buy them for their children as Easter gift, without researches, thinking about finances, commit to having them for their whole life, they'll end up abandon in a few months. Young children will get bored with them eventually, even they weren't begging to have one. The vet bill is expensive from such a small, delicate creature. They're high maintenance so they're not great "starter" pet. They require a large space to entertain themselves outdoor and lives indoor, but shut in the hutch outdoor, mostly being forgotten. When people gave them up, they dumped them in street thinking they can survive out there like the wild rabbits. There a...