Dog Paintings

“Angel” is my first exhibit in the Canine Art Guild’s “Helping Paws” online Exhibition which will take place between October 1 2008 and January 31 2009.

“Angel in Blue”

American Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Traditional oil painting by

Michelle Wrighton

16″ x 16″ Gallery wrapped canvas

2008

$750.00 plus shipping

(This painting is entered in a competition and will be available for shipping in early November).

10% of your investment in this artwork will be donated to

Animal Protection Society

"Angel in Blue" American Staffordshire Terrier dog oil painting by Michelle Wrighton

All of the artwork in the CAG Helping Paws Exhibition is for sale with part proceeds going to rescue groups and shelters selected by the artists around the world.

To view the work of many talented canine artists, please visit the ‘Helping Paws’ Exhibition and while you are there, vote for your favourite painting - the rescue group chosen by the artist who wins the People’s Choice award will receive a cash donation from the Canine Art Guild (as well as the artists’s donation pledge when the art sells).

I am a member of the Canine Art Guild, and will be exhibiting three of my dog paintings in the upcoming CAG ‘Helping Paws’ International online Exhibition for canine artists. The exhibition will be held from October 1, 2008 until the end of January 2009.

All of the artwork in the Exhibition will be for sale with each artist pledging a percentage of the sale price to their choice of rescue groups and shelters around the world. In addition, further cash donations will be made to the rescue/shelter group supported by the artists who’s artwork is voted as the ‘People’s Choice’ and ‘Honorary Mentions’ at the end of the exhibition.

I have pledged donations for a percentage of the sale price of my dog paintings in the exhibition to the Animal Protection Society of WA and K9 Rescue. I will add posts for the individual paintings closer to the exhibition date.

To view the work of some of the world’s most talented canine artists and vote for your favourite dog painting, please visit the Canine Art Guild’s ‘Helping Paws’ Exhibition - its for a very worthy cause!

“Rainbows and Sunshine”, what else could I call this fun filled colourful pastel painting of a black Newfoundland puppy?  I really enjoyed painting this one, I really wanted to loosen up, and convey the personality without much detail, so I actually used a very bad reference photo that I had taken at a dog show.  (At the time I was disappointed that the photo was so bad, but the resulting painting is worth it I think:)

Painting realistic pet portraits means that I don’t usually get to splash around with lots of colour, so that was the main aim with this one - plus to capture the late afternoon sunlight and the glorious colours in his fur without using black!

“Rainbows & Sunshine”

Newfoundland Puppy Painting

Artist Pastels on acid free pastel paper.

Image Size: 11″ x 13″ approx

2008

$200.00 (includes shipping)

10% of your investment in this artwork will be donated to K9 Rescue

"Rainbows & Sunshine" Newfoundland puppy painting by Michelle Wrighton

This is the first time this original acrylic painting of a fawn Shar-Pei from my personal collection has been offered for sale.

The copyright watermark is a digital addition to the image below and is not on the original painting.

“Kruger”

Original acrylic Shar-Pei painting

9″x12″ acrylics on

Art Spectrum Colourfix art paper

$200.00AU (includes shipping)

10% of your investment in this artwork will be donated to the

Animal Protection Society of WA

"Kruger" Shar-Pei painting in acrylics by Michelle Wrighton

“Otis”

Tan & White smooth coat

Jack Russell Terrier

Original acrylic painting

8″x10″ on 1.8cm deep gallery wrapped canvas

$135.00 (includes shipping)

10% of your investment in this artwork will be donated to Russell Rescue

"Otis" original acrylic painting by Michelle Wrighton

The painting is continued on all four edges and is ready to hang.

*The copyright watermark is a digital addition to the image below and is not on the original painting.

“Otis” is also available on merchandise and prints, and this is the first time this original painting from my personal collection has been offered for sale.

“Royalty”

Greyhound

Original acrylic painting

by

Michelle Wrighton

8″x10″ on 1.8cm deep gallery wrapped canvas

$135.00 (includes shipping)

10% of your investment in this artwork will be donated to K9 Rescue

"Royalty" original Greyhound dog painting by Michelle Wrighton

This is a small acrylic painting of Gilley, a rescue Greyhound dog from the UK. Greyhounds have the most beautiful, big, liquid, expressive eyes that are an absolute joy to paint. As a breed, Greyhounds have such a regal bearing that the deep purple background seemed appropriate for Gilley’s painting

These smaller paintings are very enjoyable to do, although this one is still quite detailed, I am really trying to loosen up and capture the essence of the animal without being totally pre-occupied with capturing every last detail!

The painting is continued on all four edges and is ready to hang.  “Royalty” is available on merchandise and prints, but this is the first time this original painting from my personal collection has been offered for sale.

*The copyright watermark is a digital addition to the image below and is not on the original painting.

According to Wikepedia The History of the Papillon is actually traced through works of art! The earliest toy spaniels resembling the Papillon are found in Italy. Tiziano Vicelli (Titian) painted these small dogs in many famous paintings including the Venus of Urbino (1542). Other well known artists who included them in paintings are Watteau, Gonzalez Coques, Fragonard and Mignard. In a painting after Largillierre in the Wallace Collection in London, a Papillon is clearly shown in a family portrait of Louis XIV. Papillons are also in paintings of royal families around Europe and paintings of merchant class families. The breed was popular in England, France, and Belgium which are considered counties of origin by the FCI.

This is the first time this original colour pencil painting on drafting film of a delightful little Papillon has been offered for sale and is your chance to own a little bit of Papillon art history!

“Papillon”

Original Artist Colour Pencil painting

by

Michelle Wrighton

9″ x 12″ on drafting film

"Papillon" colour pencil painting by Michelle Wrighton

Please note that the copyright watermark is applied to this digital image only and does not appear on the original.

Well they say good things come to those who wait, and every cloud has a silver lining and both of these are probably true at the moment.  LOL I seem to have trying to find time to get my studio re-arranged and organized for a couple of years and its finally nearly done, thanks (I guess?) at least in part to the flood damage and total house upheaval we had earlier this year!

So while being ill and not being able to do much of anything else at the moment, I have gone through my personal collection in my art folders and have decided to part with some of my art pieces that have not previously been offered for sale - I would rather have them being enjoyed by someone else and helping out a dog in need rather than remaining in my folio!

This profile portrait of a soulful looking tan & white Basset Hound was completed on black Windsor and Newton Acid Free paper using artist quality colour pencils.  Created 2005, first time offered for sale.  Paper size: 11″x14″ Image size: 8″x8″ approx. $75.00 (includes postage).

Basset Hound profile, artist color pencil on Black Artist Paper. Paper size: 11"x14" Image size: 8"x8" approx

“Grey Ghost”

11″ x 14″

Artists Colour Pencil on Drafting film

by

Michelle Wrighton

"Grey Ghost" Weimaraner portrait by Michelle Wrighton

This colour pencil painting received an Honourable Mention at the 2007 Kelmscott Show, which was quite an honour considering that it was the only non-human artwork in its category!

LOL, I tend to walk to the beat of my own drum and don’t always follow tradition (self taught artist and all that;) I consider much of the art that I produce as ‘portraits’, the fact that they are non-human is not really relevant in my humble opinion, so I went ahead and entered this one in the ‘Portraits’ category (the rules didn’t stipulate which species the portraits had to be of, so I thought it was a reasonable option).  LOL the judge either agreed with me, or was also a dog lover as well.  I did win a couple of first prizes in other categories with other animal art I had entered, but the ‘Highly Commended - Portraits’ award for this one was pretty sweet;)