Patterned Animal Illustrations by Faye Halliday

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British artist Faye Halliday is inspired by nature, animals and traveling. She creates art with one goal: to inspire art, creativity, and adventure in people. Halliday tries to capture beauty with everything she does in life.

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I’m going to share my FIRST COLOUR COLLECTION with you! Oh yeahhhhh! After months of journeying into figuring out how the color thing works, a whole collection has taken shape. And after drawing a tonne of inspiration from the master colorista herself, mother nature, it’s no surprise the identities they’ve taken on have ended up revolving around the elements (with galaxies thrown in for good measure). The meanings of these pieces have always evolved out of things I’m going through and over the past few months I’ve been walking through what has at times felt like the depths of hell… As the other half of a journey into heaven. Each of the elements has carried with it some form of lesson/helping hand in handling the hell part. Which brings us to… . ** Aurelia – Heaven ** Heaven on earth is waiting for us to relax into our hearts, release the burdens we hold onto and wake up from the dream of stress. Aurelia's inspiration was born out of the infinite wonder to be found in the skies and galaxies above us. When the problems of day-to-day life begin to weigh you down and rob you of your bliss, Aurelia invites you to gaze upwards and consider the vast beauty of the universe we live in, reminding us of the miracles to be found in each moment. . If you, like me, have a busy bee mind, this has been particularly great for managing that. When we’re in a state of stress (and when we’re going through more challenging times) the mind loves to take something pretty small and turn it into something unnecessarily BIG. Molehill > MOUNTAIN. Argument > END OF THE WORLD. So when I find my focus narrowing in on the self-perpetuating stress, I expand my focus outwards to balance my perspective. Really outwards. Like galaxy outwards. I go outside, look up at the sky and take a few minutes to contemplate the vastness of the universe we live in. How we’re chilling on a rock, floating around a ball of firey gas, existing in amongst an inconceivable amount of galaxies and stars. May seem corny and the mind will resist at first but look up at the sky – it’ll take you there! And envelope you in the wonder of it all if you allow it to 💫 . P.S. Available to buy on my website! (Link in bio)

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“I’ve always been inspired by beauty. Never on a superficial level, but more so as a concept; an interpretation and what it means to different people,” she told My Modern Met.

We loved her illustrations that represent animals and some elements from nature. She uses bold black lines to draw detailed illustrations before coloring them in, but sometimes she just leaves them be black and white. There are plenty of her illustrations on her Instagram page where she has over 270,000 followers, so make sure to follow her if you want to see more of her work. “Traveling the world and drawing things along the way. Step into your heart. Love, create, embrace the unknown,” Halliday’s Instagram description says.

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My new website is officially up and running (!!!!!) after about a year of working so, so hard on it! So to celebrate (/give this baby a good test run 😎) I'm having a sale! . Up to 50% off selected items including supersize prints, tattoos and this fella! (www.fayehallidayart.com – link's in my bio 💚) P.S. I'd love to hear your thoughts or any constructive criticism! . – Sahija – Intuition | Wisdom | Inner Knowing Sahija is here to remind you of the power that lies in what can only be felt. Although we may lose the ability to listen along the way, every one of us has an inner wisdom, ever-knowing, ever-loving and ever-present, resting in amongst the foundations of who we are. As we develop the connection with ourselves and quieten the mind for long enough to listen, the noise of day-to-day life slowly dissipates from its corner and the voice within can be heard in its gentle whisper.

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I'm curious, what's on your bucketlist? Going down to the Antarctic is weirdly one of the top things on mine… Not just to see the penguins, but to have experienced every continent in the world. I've been thinking a lot about bucket lists recently (and how much I've been slacking with mine 🙈)… But this train of thought was provoked by the realisation that it's March…. MARCH? Does anyone else feel like New Years was last week?! I swear there's a danger of this happening every year if we don't catch it in time – time passes us by so quickly and before we know it a full year's passed and we haven't done all of the things we had the best intentions of doing. So it got me thinking about bucket lists… And this is why actively ticking things off a bucket list is so great, because it adds some much needed structure when you're trying to put time aside for your dreams in amongst the chaos of day to day life. If you haven't got one, maybe grab your nearest piece of paper (or even your phone) and just jot a few things down. Of course you won't be able to come up with everything you want on there right now, but just make a start, add to it as you go (and start making shit happen!! 😶) Happy Wednesday, friends 😎

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