Original acrylic painting of a beautiful rescue greyhound dog named Teddy by Michelle Wrighton.
A selected range of quality products featuring this painting of “Teddy” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
Otis the Jack Russell is an original 8″x10″ acrylic painting created by award winning West Australian Pet Portrait artist, Michelle Wrighton
A selected range of quality products featuring this painting “Otis” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
A selected range of quality products featuring this traditional acrylic painting of this lovely Shar-Pei dog “Kruger” can be seen below and are now available for purchase. Ideal Christmas gift for the dog lover in your life!
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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.
“Major” the English Springer Spaniel is a reproduction of an original 8″ x 10″ acrylic and pencil painting
A selected range of quality products featuring this painting “Major” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
“Waiting” is an award winning portrait of a Bullmastiff dog, patiently waiting his master’s return. Original created in artists colour pencil on Stonehenge paper and took over 55 hours to complete.
A selection of products including art prints, jewellery boxes, t-shirts, mousepads, necklaces and other gift items featuring “Waiting” are now available for purchase.
Solar was another beautiful dog that I had the pleasure of photographing several years ago. Sadly, he is no longer with us, but I hope his Siberian Husky spirit still shines through in his pet portrait painting. Before I started Solar’s portrait, I knew that I wanted to put him in a setting suitable for his breed. I only wanted the background to be a subtle suggestion rather than a highly detailed landscape, so I avoided using any reference images to make sure I wouldn’t keep fiddling and adding more detail! I’m quite pleased with how this turned out, I think it portrays his bright, happy personality quite well.
Siberian Husky Pet Portrait Painting
Dog Breed Info: The Siberian Husky has been a pure bred dog for centuries, originally developed by the Chukchi people of north eastern Asia as a sled dog. The breed became popular as endurance sled dgos after 1909, when a large number of Chukchi dogs were taken to Alaska to compete in the long-distance All-Alaska Sweepstakes races.
The Siberian Husky has a lovely affectionate temperament and gentle, friendly disposition. While they are eager to please, adaptable and intelligent, their independent spirit can sometimes be quite a challenge!
Greeting cards, laminated, matted, canvas and framed prints of “Solar – Siberian Husky” can be purchased from my Redbubble giftshop:
Redbubble now offers a selection of three card products to choose from – Greeting Cards are now available in the standard 4″ x 6″ or magnificent 5″ x 7.5″ versions. They are printed on marvellous matted card using state of the art digital printing technology and hold a remarkable external photo quality while retaining a wonderful writing surface on the inside. Greeting Cards are posted ready to fold and each with their own envelope. The new Postcards are a standard 4″ x 6″ and printed with the same technology and high degree of craftsmanship as the greeting cards and the flip side is adorned with the image name, artists details and space for your message, stamp and address details.
The quality of these Redbubble cards is excellent – certainly the quality is high enough to collect these as Art Cards and frame them to create a lovely display of small format art! Redbubble makes this an even more attractive purchase option by providing a healthy discount for multiple purchases of the same size cards – 4 greeting cards/20% discount, 8 greeting cards/30% discount, 16 greeting cards/40% discount. Similar discounts or free shipping offers apply for multiple purchases of other printed items at RedBubble, so look out for those while you shop!
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Sophie is a gorgeous Shih Tzu puppy that I had the opportunity to photograph several years ago. Sophie’s all grown up now, so taking a trip back in time to capture her cheeky puppy personality in this painting was alot of fun!
Shih Tzu’s are an intelligent, active toy breed whose ancestry is rather obscure. Believed to have originated in Tibet, they are the oldest and smallest of the Tibetan ‘holy dog’ breeds. The breed is known for their naturally long, flowing coat, however, they do require a lot of grooming and care, so many pet Shih Tzu’s choose to have their coats clipped short for easy care.
Shih Tzu puppy portrait
Greeting cards, laminated, matted, canvas and framed prints of “Sophie in The Sunshine” can be purchased from my Redbubble giftshop:
Art prints and gifts for Shih Tzu dog lovers.
Busy, Busy Busy! It seems like there is never enough hours in the day to get everything done – and that is my excuse for not updating my blog more regularly and I’m sticking to it! One of the big things that is taking alot of time -many, many, many months – is a BIG PROJECT that is slowly nearing completion (click the link and follow me on Twitter for the announcement on that one).
I’ve also got a few new paintings to add to the blog, and a couple more that I am still working on, one of a dog painting, the other a horse and rider that is not flowing the way I would like it too, maybe a few days break from that one over easter will allow me too look at it again with fresh eyes.
Several people have asked how I complete my digital paintings with my graphics tablet and stylus, so I’ve also been working on a small series of articles explaining the different types of digital art and the process that I use to create my digital portrait paintings – some people seem to think that digital paintings are ‘one-click’ photoshop effects, but that explanation couldn’t be further from the truth!
In the meantime (because I have to run and feed the horses their breakfast!) this is a pet portrait painting I have recently completed of my gorgeous Border Collie dog, Taj (yes a painting for me!). This is one of those paintings that just flowed without interuption, I suspect because I know the subject so well:) Taj is a rather extroverted character, he’s never met a stranger and is such a show-off, he loves posing for the camera and really is the perfect photograhic and art model! It may run in the family, because one of his uncles is the Border Collie in the Better Homes & Gardens television commercial.
Prints of Taj’s portrait painting will be available for purchase from Redbubble and Zazzle shortly.
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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.
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