Friesian Spirit – Horse Painting
Friday, November 4th, 2011A selected range of quality products featuring “Friesian Spirit” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
A selected range of quality products featuring “Friesian Spirit” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
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”.
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Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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It was definitely time for a facelift for the old blog so the new design is finally online, just in time to celebrate the arrival of my new gift shop at Zazzle. We have selected Zazzle for printing products, prints and giftware for a number of reasons, primarily the high quality of Zazzle products which are endorsde and used by world famous brands such as Hallmark, officially licensed Star Wars and Disney, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Mythbusters, and many more. So this means that products featuring selected reproductions of my artwork are in very good company!
Aside from that, the Zazzle Promise is the sort of thing that I personally take a lot of notice of when purchasing anything from an online store, and I would expect nothing less for customers purchasing products featuring my artwork. The Zazzle promise means that:
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Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
FACEBOOK: Michelle Wrighton Artist
TWITTER: artistMichelleW
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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
Redbubble Art Print Shop Gift cards, matted, laminated, canvas and framed art prints for sale
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Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
x Michelle
This is another quick experiment on drafting film, in this one I have pushed the drafting film to the limit to see how much pigment it will hold and I have also experimented with a more painterly approach and burnished the whole lot thoroughly!
Its not quite the result I was aiming for (it needs more layers but there is no more tooth left in the film), but at least my eight year old horse mad daughter loves it:)
I actually completed this one before starting the Weimaraner pet portrait, so I hope I learned enough from doing this one to get the result I am aiming for with the Weim. I did enjoy doing this one and the journey is sometimes more important than the destination, so it was worth it.
I keep getting asked asked to do more horse art, so keep an eye out for them in the future!
Cheers
Michelle