Some recent completed wild fungi illustrations - a personal project I've been working on in my spare time. Fungi are fascinating! More 'shroom species have since been in the works.
I made some new wooden pin badges featuring some of my nature-inspired illustrations!
Made from responsibly sourced, fast-growing maple wood. Not only are they nice to look at but they use 20 to 24 times less energy to produce than enamel pins!
The wood grain compliments the watercolour textures really well. I'd love to expand this collection over time with more designs.
These lovely pins were made with the help of the great Zap Creatives here in the UK.
Available at amyholliday.etsy.com
So I've been asked a few times if I could create a rainbow coloured version of my "Fiery Phoenix" painting, well I finally did it!
The phoenix bird has such a strong and beautiful meaning of rebirth and rainbow feathers make it even more special.
If I ever get the time, I would love to paint a new rainbow phoenix from scratch! but for now I added fresh colours to the orange/light phoenix painting in Photoshop.
I played around with a few different colour ways - one of them has a red head and rainbow wings - but this is my favourite so far. The pretty pastel shades are completely different from my usual work.
Stickers of this colourful rebirth birdy are already available here
A private commission of a floral bouquet design completed early 2022. The three featured flowers are aster, freesia and elderflower. It was inspired by and influenced by lovely old vintage book illustrations. Each flower had a special meaning to the client.
This was quite the technical challenge to do! At the time I was unsure about how to approach such an intricate design, and considered it would be best to draw and paint each flower separately, then later reassemble into a bouquet digitally. If I were to do this again, I would dive in and draw it all as one piece.
