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Australian Stock Horse Portrait | Painting in progress

Sunday, April 28th, 2013

This is the latest horse portrait on my easel of a beautiful Australian Stock Horse.  Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 1

Australian Stock Horse painting in progress 1

 

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 2

Australian Stock Horse painting in progress 2

 

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 3

Australian Stock Horse portrait painting in progress 3

 

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 4

Australian Stock Horse acrylic painting in progress 4

 

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 5

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 5

 

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 6

Australian Stock Horse portrait acrylic painting in progress 6

 

Hopefully I will get some time in the studio to finish this one in the next few days.

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Grey Arabian Stallion Portrait – Acrylic painting on canvas

Friday, April 26th, 2013

This is my latest horse painting hot off the easel, an acrylic on canvas of the beautiful grey Arabian Stallion, Rokewood Riyadh. Photo Reference Sam Pearce.

 

Arabian Stallion equine portrait painting

Portrait painting of the stunning Arabian Stallion, Rokewood Riyadh

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Horse Portrait |Progress on Arab painting

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Tessa’s portrait is nearly finished, just a few more shadows and minor adjustments needed before she is ready to be signed and framed.  I havn’t used acrylics on watercolour paper before, but I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this Blue Lake paper (just as well because its expensive!) and will definitely be using it more in the future!

 

Equine artist acrylic horse painting

Tessa’s portrait almost finished!

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Equine Art | Acrylic Horse Portrait Painting in progress

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Its been quite a while since I have painted a horse in acrylics, but I have recently been inspired to paint my beautiful arab mare, Tessa. Actually, she is such an inspiring muse and I have had such fun painting this one that I have several more planned. This painting is 8″x13″ approx on Blue Lake Watercolour paper.

I’ve deliberately tried to work a bit looser with this, trying to find the happy medium between adding in enough detail without making it photorealistic.  That is a much harder task than it might seem!  Its nearly finished, just needing some more highlights, shadows and then a signature.

The basic sketch

 

Blocking in the shadows

Starting the background and shadows in her blaze

More blocking in colour

 

Starting to add some detail

 

Refining the details

A bit more detail

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Museum Quality Prints of Paintings and Photography now available

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Selected paintings and photographs are now available for purchase as in a range of museum quality prints and greeting cards from Fine Art America, one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints.   All of their prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers and the range includes standard prints on paper, canvas prints, acrylic prints, metal prints and greeting cards of a quality high enough to be frame worthy.  I feel confident offering my artwork for sale through this company due to their excellent reputation within the industry and 100% money back satisfaction guarantee that they offer all customers.

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Acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks guarantee that all prints purchased will last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.   Paper prints include a 1″ white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting.   Canvas prints include a 2.5″ white border to allow for future stretching on stretcher bars.  Prints ship within 2 – 3 business days in durable cardboard tubes.

Standard Art Print of Whispers in the Wind - Abstract Nature Photography

Standard Art Print of Whispers in the Wind – Abstract Nature Photography

 

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You can choose from 15 different colour framed in a huge variety of different widths and profiles to suit every style and decor.  The shopping cart system allows you to select and view each frame choice with differnt coloured mat combination (single or double mats – and in your choice of widths between 1″-10″)  on the actual artwork that you are purchasing to allow you to completely customize your framed print to suit your own personal taste.

Framed and Matted - Sudden Thunder Horse painting

Framed and Matted – Sudden Thunder Horse painting

 

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Select your preference of ‘wrap’ for your canvas print – no wrap (will be sent rolled in a mailing tube), museum wrap (with white sides), gallery wrap with white side, gallery wrap with black sides, or gallery wrap with continuous image sides.

Gallery wrapped canvas with black sides - Rainbows and Sunshine Newfoundland puppy pastel painting

Gallery wrapped canvas with black sides – Rainbows and Sunshine Newfoundland puppy pastel painting

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Metal Fine Art Print - Blink cat painting

Metal Fine Art Print – Blink cat art

 

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Acrylic Print - A Bird of Paradise I, Fine Art Photography by Michelle Wrighton

Acrylic Print – A Bird of Paradise I, Fine Art Photography by Michelle Wrighton

 

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Greeting Cards - Wise One Orangutan acrylic painting on canvas by Michelle Wrighton

Greeting Cards – Wise One Orangutan acrylic painting on canvas by Michelle Wrighton

 

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Summers End | Quarterhorse painting

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Quarterhorse Stallion portrait painted in the warm gold and orange colours of autumn – fall using a stylus, wacom tablet and Painter XI.

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Colourful Rainbow calf painting

Monday, March 5th, 2012

This gorgeous little calf just begged to painted, and in the spirit of exploring a bolder, less detailed, more expressive style I have painted this.  It definitely is fun to not be a slave to create every hair as realistic as possible, but I think I will keep playing and pushing tthrough expressionism and towards abstract maybe.

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Silver Grey Arab Mare | Horse Painting

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Original Portrait painting of a beautiful silver grey Arabian mare.

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Tiger Painting

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

This tiger painting is the first piece of work I completed in 2012 after taking a fairly long break…sometimes the creativity is elusive and just can’t be captured to sit down and create something.  Unfortunately having people not only copy your work, but steal it and claim it as their own can have that affect on you.  Painting this piece did remind me just how much I enjoy the process but also how much I would really like to loosen up and become much more adventurous with my artwork.

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Tara – Colour Pencil Cat Portrait Painting

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Original colour pencil painting on drafting film of our cat “Tara”. The look on her face is priceless and a very typical ‘Tara’ look. Tara is not your average friendly physically affectionate cat, and for good reason. Tara and her litter mates were dumped in the bush as kittens when they were 6-8 weeks old, and eight years later she still hasn’t totally overcome her mistrust of humans.

Tara is quite attached to our family in her own way, she is very timid, dosn’t like to be touched or picked up. It has taken a lot of patience and gentle persistence and as long as we don’t push her to do anything she dosn’t want to do, she seems to be quite happy being close to us without being a lap cat.

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