This gorgeous little calf just begged to painted, and in the spirit of exploring a bolder, less detailed, more expressive style I have painted this. It definitely is fun to not be a slave to create every hair as realistic as possible, but I think I will keep playing and pushing tthrough expressionism and towards abstract maybe.
Colourful Calf Painting - © 2012 Michelle Wrighton
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‘Horse of Colour’ is a new digital oil horse painting in which I have again gone for a contemporary look, focused on the colours rather than detail, using soft pastel hues of violet, lemon, mint and baby blue highlighted brush strokes floated over the blended colours to express the soft romanticism of a much loved kind and gentle show pony.
Horse of Colour - modern horse painting by Michelle Wrighton
Close up cropped image to show detail
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x Michelle
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Considering my normal subject material and style, how different is this one!
Boats at Harbour by Michelle Wrighton
As an animal and wildlife artist, I try to be bold with my colour choices while still retaining a high degree of realism, but I don’t usually get to enjoy using such explosive colour so paintings this one was an awful lot of fun! The fiery red reflections contrast against the cool blues and shades of turquoise greens in a way that would compliment a variety of modern contemporary interior designs. Although painted as a single painting, I like it split up like the image shows as a triptych, but I think it would also work well as a four piece painting. If two is a diptych, and three a triptych, I wonder what a four piece painting is called? I have absolutely no idea, so I better go google and find out!
Original abstract painting inspired by the colours and reflections of Fishing Boat Harbour in Fremantle, Western Australia. Available for purchase printed with archival inks on ready to hang gallery wrapped canvas as well as glossy photographic prints for framing behind glass.
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The original oil painting ‘Angel in Blue’ is one of my favourite traditional oil paintings on canvas that I have done. Unlike many artists who will re-visit a painting they have created in the past and paint it again in a larger size or different medium, I very rarely, if ever do this…possibly because the traditional art mediums that I use (charcoal, graphite, color pencils, acrylic and oil paints) and the detailed style that I paint in take so many hours to create that I just have never had the desire to become that familiar with the image again!
However digital painting is proving to be so much fun and so liberating, LOL somedays I just think my artistic muse must be on speed;) Or maybe something else a bit funny if the contemporary digital modifications that I have made to a photo of my American Staffordshire Terrier oil painting ‘Angel in Blue’ is any indication;) While I still prefer the traditional oil painting version (and I am not sure if this version will appear anywhere else but in this blog post), my creative spirit is having so much fun that I feel somewhat compelled to share some of my experiments! This is not a simple photo manipulation using one click filters or adjustments in photoshop, I have added all the new colours to the photo and re-painted and blended them in this very funky version of Angel. Nice and bright, hey?
Funky Angel - Contemporary American Staffordshire Terrier Painting
I forgot that I had a progress photo of Precious on my computer. Precious’s portrait is being created with a strong contemporary feel to go with her funky and fashionable patent pink colour:) I have to admit the shine of the patent pink collar is the hardest part to get right. LOL its not something that I usually paint, but I am sure it will work out in the end.
Sorry about the flash glare on this one, oil paintings are proving as difficult to photograph as graphite!
There is still a fair bit of work to do to get Precious and her patent collar looking perfect, but I won’t be able to work on this until I get a couple of commissions wrapped up.
Just to be different I have painted several modern/contemporary abstracts which are very different to the more normal highly detailed and realistic animals I normally do. My aim with these was in fact to avoid lots of detail and take the minimalist approach. These are all 4″x4″ art squared pieces, acrylic on canvas. I really enjoyed doing these and have listed two on Ebay to see how they go – they were a lot of fun and in between commissions, I plan on doing a lot more in this small format size.
Solitaire
Tall Poppies
View From The Dunes
Michelle
