Michelle Wrighton Fine Art and Photography

Well my dear hubby has been busy while I have been under the weather and the project that I mentioned in my last post is now up and running, and I am looking for new dog rescue groups to partner with in the near future (never enough hours in the day and the kids are on holidays at the moment).

The new project is  an ongoing series of Dog Paintings in various styles and media and can be viewed at http://dogpaintings.com.au, which I hope in time will be a daily dog painting blog - time constraints and commissions before Christmas (added to me not being 100% well) means that it is unlikely (LOL ok highly improbable) that I will paint daily, so I am aiming at finishing one of these small paintings every day that I do paint.  A percentage of the sale of these small artworks will be donated to dog rescue groups, at the moment this includes the Animal Protection Society and K9 Rescue.

After the flooding and house re-arranging that resulted in a studio clean out, I have gone through my art folders and have listed some artwork from my personal collection that has not been offered for sale previously.  You can see all of the artwork currently available in the Dog Paintings ART FOR SALE.

I’ve also entered three of my dog portraits in the Canine Art Guild’s Helping Paws online Exhibition which featrues an international collection of artists who have partnered with local animal shelters and rescues and have pledged a percentage of sales from this exhibition to support of animal welfare efforts.

In addition, visitors to the online exhibition can vote for their favorite artwork and three People’s Choice honours will be awarded, with cash donations being made to the shelters affiliated with the artworks receiving the most votes for People’s Choice awards so please visit the “Helping Paws” Exhibition and vote for your favourite.

These are the three pieces that I have entered into the exhibition:

“Peaches & Cream”, Pomeranean in Pastels

“Angel in Blue” American Staffordshire Bull Terrier painting in oils

“Noble” German Shepherd Dog, painting in charcoal

"Noble" German Shepherd Dog in charcoal by Michelle Wrighton

All three of these dog paintings are available for sale at http://dogpaintings.com.au with 10% being donated to the Animal Protection Society and K9 Rescue.  If you like any of these three paintings, I would appreciate you vote in the Peoples Choice awards to help my selected Rescue Groups!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Michelle

http://dogpaintings.com.au

Although I have a number of pieces on the go at the moment, as an artist I am always looking for ideas and inspiration and take a lot of photos for future reference. I have some wonderful reference photos to choose from the following breeds, so I have decided to find out what breeds of dogs are popular with my visitors and have created a poll for you to tell me which dog breed you would like to see me paint or draw next.

Please vote for your favourite breed or breeds (up to five) from the poll below, which also appears on the right hand column of my blog.

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Funny Dog photo

The website is slowly coming together, and I am very pleased with how the site is looking so far (plus its very easy to use and maintain, which is always a bonus!)  Better quality images of some of my older artwork, including some of my wearable art (handcrafted sterling silver and gemstone jewelry) has been added to the Fine Art Gallery today.

The front page is linking to the correct pages now, navigation buttons have been added to the top of the page, and a number of different style banners have been added to the LINKS page for reciprocal link exchange (the html code will be added for each shortly for those people like me who don’t know how to make an image link to a website;).

I had planned on re-scanning a few other pieces, but with all the furniture (from the carpet repairs) in my studio, I can only get one foot inside the door, so no art for me today…or for a few more days probably (my hubby is quite ill at the moment, but hopefully will recover without another hospital visit.  So our plans have changed again slightly and we will be taking each hour/day as it comes until he recovers.

Things are progressing along, the Fine Art and Photography gallery have now been added, (but they arn’t linked from the front page yet, and the slideshow isn’t working at this stage).

The links page has been set up and split into different categories so that there are not too many links on each page.  The Commissions, Prints, gifts and merchandise pages are up, as is the original fine art for sale page, but I havn’t been able to add any pieces yet.

It will be a few more days that I first expected to get everything sorted out with the website, unfortunately we had storm damage from a tornado that went through our neighbourhood nearly two weeks ago and we have had to empty the furniture and contents of half of our house into the other half of the house to get the damaged carpet replaced.  As much as I hate doing it, it is a good excuse to de-clutter and get rid of things we no longer use so its going to take longer to get the house re-organised than originally anticipated…great timing of course (not!) as the kids are also on holidays.

I have a number of new oil paintings that I have been working on in between the last few commissions that I have, including some wildlife - a meerkat, a lemur, a snow leopard and a few dogs - a pug, a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a German Shepherd with plans for a German Shorthaired Pointer, a Chinese Crested and a Golden Retriever, as well as a Border Collie agility piece.

At the moment thought, I can’t get into my studio due to the extra furniture that we have had to put in there, so I will post work in progress photos of them when I get the chance.  And at some stage if I ever get the time,  I need to add some back dated posts about a few awards my artwork won in a show I entered in October last year.  I am hoping to finish up all the commissions by August so that I can focus on my own artwork for a while, so I hope there are no more unexpected interruptions in my life!

There is just not enough hours in the day!

Welcome to my new site, please bear with us while my web developer (hubby) gets things organized:)

If you have stumbled across my website during this transition stage, the Art and Photography Galleries will be online in the next few days.  In the meantime, some of my older artwork can be viewed at my old website http://pencilportraits.com.au and over the next few days I hope to finish of and post the old posts that I have sitting in my draft folder!

I guess some things are just meant to be. We were not looking for another dog.  At all.  We already have two.  But as we are all besotted with Taj, hubby and I had joked that if a little white faced girl border collie needed a good home, that would be the only 3rd addition we would think about it.

Well guess what?  In a very round about way, through my sister who actually has Siberian Huskies and a Koolie and has recently moved to the country, we have now adopted another Border collie, and yes she is a little girl with a white face!  Her name was Jarrah, which we loved as our block is full of Jarrah trees, but once we got her home, it didn’t seem to suit her as she is small and petite, so hubby has named her Trinity (yup, he’s a matrix fan, plus she is canine-kid number three, and she has 3 black spots on her face).

Isn’t she cute?  Taj is thrilled to have a baby sister.  On the other hand, Tia the ice queen refuses to acknowledge her existance.

I would like to introduce the newest member of our family, a darling little Border Collie puppy that I fell in love with when he was only 4.5 weeks old. You might remember from an earlier post that I was considering an older rescue dog but one that was right for us didn’t come along until I found this little guy.

He is from an ANKC registered breeder and both his parents have been tested clear for the medical conditions that can occur in this breed (eyes, hips, elbows).  His dad is a very successful Agility competitor, and one of his relatives is the Border Collie on the Better Pets and Gardens television ad (not that that makes any difference to us).

He is the most beautiful bundle of fluff and we have called him ‘Taj’ (pronounced Tarje as in the Taj Mahal).  I am sure that he is going to feature in my photography on a regular basis:)

Responsible dog ownership starts BEFORE you purchase or adopt your new dog. You should spend as much time as possible researching the different breeds to find which is most suitable to you and your lifestyle, as well as individual breeders before deciding on one that will provide you with a healthy, happy puppy, and as much after sales assistance as you require.

Here are a few other things to keep in mind:

By following the simple suggestions above will help you be a responsible dog owner. And remember, as with most things a little common sense goes a long way!

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