A Fiery Rainbow Phoenix! | A Pastel Pride Rebirth Design

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 

Artwork © Amy Holliday 2023

www.amyholliday.co.uk

Watercolour Flowers Tattoo Design | Vintage-inspired Floral Bouquet

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.

These three flowers were then combined and layered together to make the finished bouquet: 

Artwork © Amy Holliday 2023

www.amyholliday.co.uk