A 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.
Owners of water loving, tennis ball obsessed Jack Russell Terriers will appreciate the familiarity this scene! Digitally hand painted using pressure sensitive tablet and stylus in Corel Painter.
A selected range of quality products featuring this painting of “Jack at the Beach” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
“Chelsea” is a digital Oil painting of a gorgeous Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that I met at a dog show. Painted in Corel Painter and Photoshop using a wacom tablet and stylus.
A selection of products including art prints, jewellery boxes, t-shirts, mousepads, necklaces and other customizable gift items featuring “Chelsea” are now available for purchase.
I’m very proud to announce that my digital painting of my Border Collie dog Taj, has been voted into the Top 10 entries in the Redbubble Corel® New Masters Portrait Challenge.
Taj - Border Collie Portrait
Art prints and gifts featuring this artwork are available for purchase from my art store.
Living in a rural area provides me with a constant supply of inspiration for my art. This young hereford heifer was the only one to stay to investigate what I was doing when I stopped beside her paddock to get some photos. The rest took off running as if I had jumped out of the car yelling “Hamburger!”
Hereford Cow Painting
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Commission your own Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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I’m currently in the process of setting up my new studio gallery:) Seeing as I have not yet formally ‘moved in’ and started painting, I thought it would be a good idea to post some photos before I start and it develops into messy disorganized chaos (LOL I’m sure most artists reading this will chuckle as ‘messy studio syndrome’ is a condition that seems to afflict many of us;).
I know that I am beyond lucky to have a dedicated, completely self contained studio gallery less than 200 metres from my home…even more so because I have stunning views right from my studio window as well as a verandah that will be perfect for painting plein air landscapes:)
The gallery won’t actually be open to the public for a while as most of my artwork was sold before we moved from the city so I need to get busy and build up an inventory of paintings!
My art studio gallery
Front View of studio
Partial view from my studio
Right Hand corner
Drafting table and computer table...minus the computer
Left hand side
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x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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I am slowly resigning myself to the idea that the ‘challenges’ of country wireless internet means I can’t necessarily update my blog whenever its suitable to me and that blog posts are probably better late than never. So in that spirit, this is an older digital painting of Annabelle, a black Standard Poodle, with a step by step progress demonstration image to show how the painting was created.
Black Standard Poodle Pet Portrait Painting
Although painted digitally using my Intuos 4 drawing tablet and ‘digital’ paintbrush, I develop the painting digitally just like I do when painting or drawing with traditional art mediums. I sketch the subject, and then start adding colour by blocking in the main shapes and values (shadows and highlights), and ‘glaze’ with varying degrees of transparent colour to create depth and form. Finally the details are added to complete the painting.
Painting in Progress images Black Standard Poodle
If you would like to commission a portrait of your poodle or other pet in traditional oil paints, graphite/charcoal or a digital painting such as this one, please contact me to discuss your requirements.
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x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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‘Summer Heat’ is an original painting 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 by Michelle Wrighton
Summer Heat - Close up
‘Summer Heat’ is available for sale as art prints and gifts items in my Redbubble and Zazzle shops, and signed prints are available for sale in my Etsy shop Art By Michelle
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x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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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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x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
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I’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
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x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
FACEBOOK: Michelle Wrighton Artist
TWITTER: artistMichelleW
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