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.
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Bunbury Red – Race Horse Art gifts
Monday, October 3rd, 2011A selected range of quality products including canvas prints, iPad cases, t-shirts, mousepads, notepads and many more gift items featuring the racehorse painting “Bunbury Red” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
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Horse of Colour – Contemporary Horse Painting
Saturday, October 1st, 2011A selected range of quality products including canvas prints, iPad cases, t-shirts, mousepads, notepads and many more gift items featuring “Horse of Colour” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
Thoroughbred Horse | Equine Pet Portrait in Pencil
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Finally 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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Friesian Spirit | Horse Painting
Saturday, May 1st, 2010I’m sure that artists reading this will understand, LOL and non-artists will just think I am weird, but sometimes a painting takes on a life of its own with such determination that it almost seems paint itself – almost as if the subject has such strength of personality and character that its spirit insists on being immortalised in art.
Friesian Spirit is one of those paintings.
Friesian Spirit - Equine portrait painting by Michelle Wrighton
I havn’t decided at this time if ‘Friesian Spirit’ will be made available in my RedBubble and Zazzle art print and gift shops, as I am leaning towards offering this one as Limited Edition prints only. If you would like to be notified when ‘Friesian Spirit’ is available for purchase, simply subscribe to the rss feed for this blog, or join the new page I have created at Facebook for my artwork – Michelle Wrighton Artist
Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
x Michelle
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Cutting Horse Portrait | Equine Art
Sunday, September 13th, 2009Digital painting of a Quarterhorse after working cows.
Cutting Cows Quarterhorse painting ©2009 Michelle Wrighton
100% crop to show detail of Quarterhorse painting
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Show Horse Painting | Pet Portrait Equine Art
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Show Horse Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton
Standardbred Winter Gala Horse Show | South West Photography
Sunday, May 24th, 2009The Standardbred Pleasure and Performance Horse Association of WA held the annual Winter Gala at the Perth Horse and Pony Club grounds in Herdsman. I am totally biased towards the breed (having two of my own) and I strongly believe that they are *the* most under-rated breed in the horse world. Thankfully more people like those that turned out for this show are seeing the incredible possibilities with this versatile breed as pleasure and preformance horses.
And I have to say that the presentation of these Standardbreds is absolutely impeccable and puts alot of other ‘fancy’ breeds to shame!
Coloured Standardbred © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Part bred Standardbred © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Breed Show © South West Photography
Standardbred Dressage © South West Photography
All of the proof images for the In Hand, Ridden and the Dressage tests can be viewed and ordered online at South West Photography.
Coolup Stock Horse Cutting Clinic | South West Photography
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Well after getting a taste of Cutting action at the last bit of the Ian Francis Cutting Clinic that I saw after the Paint Horse Champs back in February, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to watch two days of cutting on the 16th and 17th May.
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
Cutting Horse © South West Photography
All images from both days events can be viewed and prints purchased online at South West Photography
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana | South West Photography
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Today was a blast from the past, my first time at Orange Grove for many many years! Only got time to share a few images from today:)
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana © South West Photography
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana © South West Photography
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana © South West Photography
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana © South West Photography
Orange Grove Official Gymkhana © South West Photography
All photographs from this and other equestrian and canine events can be viewed and prints purchased online at South West Photography.
