Capturing the soulful expression of this lovely Beagle, this traditional oil painting portrait of a Beagle dog was hand painted on “x7″ canvas board. The original painting is available for sale.
Beagle dog - Traditional oil painting on canvas board
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Traditional oil painting of Hallie, a fellow artist’s world famous Dachshund dog, hand painted on canvas board. Original painting 5″x7″ for sale framed in a simple black wood frame.
A selection of products including art prints, jewellery boxes, t-shirts, mousepads, necklaces and other customizable gift items featuring the black and tan long haired “Hallie” are now available for purchase.
‘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
‘Horse of Colour’ will be available for purchase as art prints and on other gifts for horses lovers in my Zazzle and Redbuble stores in the near future.
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
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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
My original oil painting of ‘Angel’ the American Staffordshire Terrier was featured as Today’s Best product – considering that Zazzle has millions of unique designs this really is a huge honour!
American Staffordshire Terrier Pet Portrait in Oils by Michelle Wrighton
When I painted “Angel” I really wanted to portray the loyal, loving devotion that these beautiful dogs have towards their family when they are bred and raised by ethical, responsible people.
Unfortunately not all American Staffordshire Terriers and Pit Bull Terriers are as lucky as “Angel” and don’t always end up in responsible homes.
If you would like to purchase a print of ‘Angel’ or to view a range of gifts and merchandise featuring this artwork, please visit my Zazzle Giftshop or Redbubble.
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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Skipping Stones - Having Fun on the Blackwood
Greeting cards, laminated, matted, canvas and framed prints of “Skipping Stones” can be purchased from my Redbubble shop: 
Fire and Ice - Siamese Cat painting by Michelle Wrighton
Art prints and gifts featuring ‘Fire and Ice’ can be purchased from the following places:
Art By Michelle Etsy shop – signed and custom prints options for sale
Redbubble Art Shop Gift cards, matted, laminated, canvas and framed art prints for sale
Zazzle Art Shop Posters, ornaments, t-shirts, bags, posters, coffee mugs, canvas prints magnets, shoes, photo cards for sale
Tommy - Standardbred Horse Painting by Michelle Wrighton
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:
This is one of the first digital oil paintings that I did, sketching and painting the dog using using Photoshop CS4 oil brushes and blending with the smudge tool. Initially I was happy with it, then after I did a few more digital paintings I relegated this one to the back burner as it lost its appeal. I recently dragged it out from my work in progress folders and finished it off – all it needed was a closer crop and a touch more contrast:)
Chelsea - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Pet portrait by Michelle Wrighton
Cards, laminated, matted and framed prints of Chelsea can be purchased from my Redbubble shop:
