Michelle Wrighton Fine Art and Photography

This is probably my favorite piece that I did in 2005. The look in this dog’s eyes just says it all, he is laying there patiently waiting for his owner to come back.

“Waiting” Coloured Pencil, 11″ x 14″, 2005

This piece was completed purely in colour pencils on cream Stonehenge paper and took well over 55 hours of work to complete. It was worth it though, because it was awarded First Place in the Painting & Drawings: Animals class at the Art Show I entered – pretty amazing seeing as colour pencil is such a new Fine Art medium and because the other entries included oils, acrylics and pastels!

This Bullmastiff pet portrait features on dog breed merchandise such as stationery, prints, greeting cards, tote bags and more.

Well, I didn’t get a chance to list the last challenge (SNOW) before the deadline, but I managed to create a new challenge piece and list it during the specified time this week as part of a ‘theme week’ for a group of ACEO artists that I belong to on Ebay.

Its great to see all the different ideas other artists come up with relating to the same theme – if you would like to have a look, just search Ebay for “ACEO Theme Week” or the theme title which is ‘Baby its cold Outside’. LOL this was a bit of a stretch for me as its the middle of summer over here in Western Australia:)

Nevertheless, this polar bear is the piece I came up with, I’m quite happy with this guy, although it has scanned with more yellow than there really is in the original.

Click here to view on Ebay

And this one is ‘Prudence’ the Persian cat.

I think I will hold off on starting my personal ACEO challenge until the kids start back at school in a couple of weeks, there just dosn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything that needs doing!

Cheers

Michelle

I am just loving these Art Card’s, it’s true, they really are little gems! And for me at the moment they are particularly good as with my three darling children on school holidays I can still manage to complete some art as it it possible to get a couple finished on a good day!

I’m finding that they are more of a challenge than I originally anticipated – at least as far as my normal very detailed and realistic style. But the good thing about having such a tiny space to work with is that you really need to think before you act and make each pencil/paint brush mark count:)

This little bunny rabbit is ‘Nibbles’ ACEO #12. Prismacolor Artists pencils on matt board. This ACEO is currently for auction on Ebay, but if he dosn’t sell I will put him in my Ebay Store at retail price…actually that’s what I’m planning on doing with my Ebay art auctions, start them at a lower price on auction and then if they don’t sell I will put them in my Ebay store at the normal retail price. LOL – unless my kids claim them first:)

This little cute chestnut foal is ‘Toby’, I havn’t listed him on Ebay yet because I need to find my original reference as I can’t remember what breed of horse he is. I am really pleased with the way this little fella turned out, unfortunately it lost some of the vibrancy in the colours when I scanned it so I will have to try a digi pic to see if that is better. ‘Toby’ has also been done in Prismacolor colour pencils on acid free mattboard.

I’ve added a few more birds and cat ACEO’s and several pieces of handcrafted sterling silver and gemstone jewellery to my Ebay listings as well, so if you’d like to take a look, please click here.

Now I must run and get dinner sorted out for my hungry family!

Michelle

It really is no wonder that these ACEO’s are taking the art world by storm, they are so much fun to do and I am finding them quite addictive:)

I will admit that it is really difficult to get a lot of detail into a painting that is a maximum size of 2.5 by 3.5 inches (the same size as normal trading cards), I’m finding that they are a really good oportunity for me to experiment with a looser, less photorealistic style.

Here are a few that I have done this week, I might try listing some of them on ebay.com.au and the new art auction at the Art-Cards.Org site (I’ll post an update when they are listed for auction).

The first one is a lovely golden retriever ACEO portrait:

A sweet little Siamese Kitten:

A bird this time, a Pink Flamingo:

and something different for me, a landscape – impressionistic in style?

I do have a few more but I will post them on the new ACEO gallery that I am setting up on my website Pencil Portraits as soon as I sort out an image size problem that I seem to be having.

I’m contemplating opening an Ebay store for my ACEO’s, small format art and art jewellery…if I can find enough hours in the day! I’d love to hear if you think this is a good idea or not (what can I say, I’m a Libran and making a decision takes forever!)

Ciao for now!

Michelle