“Chelsea” is a digital Oil painting of a gorgeous Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that I met at a dog show. Painted in Corel Painter and Photoshop using a wacom tablet and stylus.
A selection of products including art prints, jewellery boxes, t-shirts, mousepads, necklaces and other customizable gift items featuring “Chelsea” are now available for purchase.
The four day Redbubble *Black Friday until Cyber Monday Christmas Sale is now on! 15% savings on all matted, laminated, mounted, canvas and framed prints and a massive 30% saving on Greeting Cards when you purchase 16 or more (they don’t have to be the same image to enjoy this saving!)
"High Five" Baudins Cockatoo framed photographic print by Michelle Wrighton
"Noble" German Shepherd charcoal drawing Postcard print
"William" framed Cat pet portrait print
"Eventer" greeting card equine art by Michelle Wrighton
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December is the busiest time of the year for all postal networks, and as Redbubble ships from printers all around the globe, shipping times can vary. Once your order has been manufactured, in most cases it will end up in the hands of your local mail service, which can be at the mercy of severe weather, postal strikes, customs, dogs, and sometimes alien abduction. While we will do our best to make and send your item as soon as possible, we don’t have control over your local postal system. While we can never guarantee that you will receive orders by a certain date, you should aim to place your Christmas orders with Redbubble before these dates to have the best chance of arriving before Christmas:
Limited Christmas Commissions available!
Commission your own Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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*Edit to add an explanation of what Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all about – being Australian I really had no idea, Black Friday is normally a Friday that falls on the 13th day of the month! Anyway…as explained very well by Amy-Elyse, Black Friday and Cyber monday relate to Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping in the USA.
“In the U.S. people camp out starting the day before thanksgiving to buy cheap stuff friday morning. Friday after Thankgiving to the following monday is the big shopping day for the holidays. Friday is known as Black Friday because it is the day that pulls businesses solidly “Into the Black” (as in bookeeping) A lot of businesses rely on this weekend to make or break their year end quarter, so they offer ridiculous mark downs on limited quantities of select “Hot ticket Items” in the hopes that you will join the crush to try to get there in time for them, and either fail and buy other not so discounted stuff or succeed and also buy other non discounted stuff. Cyber Monday refers to the following monday when people who skipped it friday clog the internet buying stuff online to make sure it arrives in time for gift giving”.
So there you go…Black Friday and Cyber Monday – you learn something new everyday!
My Thoroughbred gelding provides me with endless amusement and artistic reference material. He was being a goofball (as usual), but his pose reminded me of the power within the horse that is ready to explode at any moment. Painting him with a stormy background was a perfect setting for “Sudden Thunder”.
Sudden Thunder by Michelle Wrighton © 2010
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Finally here is the last of the graphite pencil drawings I did before my daughters accident, its taken a while to post it I know, but better late than never;)
This image is a photograph of the drawing, I had quite a bit of trouble getting a suitable image of this one, my scanner made it look very scratching and textured and even the photograph (although better than the scan) looks to have more texture than the original drawing which actually has smooth blended pencil strokes and much smoother tonal transitions.
Cricket - Thoroughbred Horse Pet Portrait sketch © 2010 Michelle Wrighton
I have some new graphite horse drawings (Clydesdales in harness) and a freisian cow that I hope to start on next week – or at least as soon as I finish a couple of digital portraits that I am still working on that are just not coming together the way I want them too.
I’ve also started to throw some paint on canvas in order to learn some new painting techniques – I’ve lost enthusiasm for painting in thin glazes (layers) and taking weeks on end to finish a painting so I plan to develop my skills painting alla prima/wet in wet and also plein air landscapes. Suffice it to say that at the moment I think it was easier to paint photo-realistically (you just paint what you see) than it is to paint more…painterly with less detail and more textured brushstrokes while still creating an end result that looks like what its meant to look like (as opposed to looking like an abstract pile of mud!) I would love to follow in the footsteps of the Daily Painters and create a small painting every day as that is the best way to develop new skills and techniques, as well as see tangible development over time. I know that I can’t commit to a daily painting, but I do have a goal in mind of 100 small paintings in this new, less detailed , more painterly ‘loose’ style – not sure how long it will take to complete, but as they say its the journey thats important not the destination, so as long as I enjoy the process and learn something along the way then its time well spent.
x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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Bright, bold and colourful, this impressionist digital oil painting is based on a photograph I took of Canola fields in full bloom north of Kojonup (a small country town in the south west of Western Australia).
Canola out of Kojonup by Michelle Wrighton
Art prints and gifts featuring my ‘Canola out of Kojonup’ painting are available for sale in the following places;
Art By Michelle Etsy shop – signed and custom prints options for sale
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“Stars and Stripes” is my new western influenced cowboy and horse painting.
"Stars and Stripes" original painting by Michelle Wrighton
Art prints and gifts featuring this painting are available for sale in the following places;
Art By Michelle Etsy shop – signed and custom prints options for sale
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Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
x Michelle
Skipping Stones - Having Fun on the Blackwood
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Bosco at the Beach - Labrador dog Painting by Michelle Wrighton
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Kookaburra Australian Bird painting by Michelle Wrighton
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Digital Painting of a gorgeous chocolate Labrador at the beach.
Bosco - Chocolate Labrador Beach Painting Pet Portrait by Michelle Wrighton
