Singing Song Thrush

I’ve been playing around with an oracle deck project recently and I’ve been enjoying sketching up some ideas for each of the card prompts.

I though this Song Thrush singing his heart out would be a very sweet interpretation for the word, “Expression”. The Oracle deck is still in the early phase of being created so doesn’t have a name yet, but it seems to have a bit of a Hedgewitch theme so far. It features a lot of creatures and plants that I find around me so it’s proving to be a lovely exercise to pull me deeper into connecting with my new home in the Brecon Beacons, and also how this all impacts my spiritual practice too!

Bullfinch Sketchbook Study

Here’s a sketchbook spread featuring some Bullfinch study sketches, I also doodled a particularly nice looking tree that’s near my home and some moon phases. I haven’t seen any Bullfinches yet while I’ve been birdwatching here in the Brecon Beacons but I hope I will have them visit the garden sometime this spring. I would occasionally spot them in our Wiltshire garden and it was always such a treat to see them and their lovely pink chests!

Llangorse Lake

After finishing my last landscape illustration with the blush sky (which can be seen here) I really wanted to create another with a similar aesthetic. For this one I sketched the lake edge and hills overlooking Llangorse Lake which can be found here in the Brecon Beacons, but I wanted to go for a light teal coloured sky this time.

I enjoy painting these skies because they’re a little challenging to get the balance of colour and texture right, but they still manage to be relaxing to create.

I quite like how this came out with the teal colour contrasting against the landscape sketch, and I’m particularly pleased with how the trees in the foreground turned out!