Michelle Wrighton Fine Art and Photography

‘Summer Heat’ is based on a photo I took of my Standardbred gelding Tommy in our back paddock last summer.  I avoided putting too much detail in the painting and chose warm yellow and orange hues to really capture the feeling of a hot summers day in rural Australia.

Summer Heat - modern contemporary equine art

Summer Heat - Close up

‘Summer Heat’ is available as small and large prints on Fine Art Paper ready for framing behind glass as well as Limited Edition hand embellished prints on ready to hang gallery wrapped canvas.  Please contact me for pricing and purchase details.

I’ve always loved working with dark coloured and black backgrounds to create dramatic lighting in a painting.  Colour Pencils and pastels are two traditional mediums that this technique works extremely well with, and I am pleased to say that it is the same for paintings created with digital pastels.  It takes an awful lot of self control for me to stop adding more and more detail to a painting (traditional or digital), but I am loving exploring painting more freely and expressively while still capturing the essence of my subject, so I can see a few more of this style of painting in the future.

The Dark Horse - Michelle Wrighton © 2010

Prints of Dark Horse will be available to purchase shortly. If you would like to commission a painting of your own ‘Dark Horse’ or other pet, please visit the Pet Portrait Pricing page for additional information and to take advantage of the my Limited Time offer for 11″x14″ portrait painting from only $220.00.

Digital painting of a Quarterhorse after working cows.

Cutting Cows Quarterhorse painting ©2009 Michelle Wrighton

100% crop to show detail of Quarterhorse painting

Greeting cards, laminated, matted, canvas and framed prints of “Kookaburra” can be purchased from my Redbubble shop: