A Creative Journey, by Michael Mitchell

 A t Lake Brighton, t he best photo I could manage  with my cell phone :) Post #200! I have been thinking about the bald eagle a lot r...

This is a quick pencil sketch of an idea that came to me a while back. I used a reference photo of my cat sitting on my lap.  The foresh...

Portraits have never been my forte so I keep practicing, this time with a dog. I worked from a photo of this Labrador German shepard, which ...

The quetzal is the national bird of Guatamala, as well as being on their flag. The more colorful one, shown here, is the male. The reason th...

It is finally feeling like fall weather here in Sacramento! Yesterday was a sunny but crisp morning in the 40's and normally I would not...

Hummingbirds are my wife's favorite bird and with a feeder right outside our window, we see them all of the  time.  Hummingbirds symbol ...

Honu is the word Hawaiians use to refer to the green sea turtles that come and hang out all around the islands. The are so graceful as the...

Everywhere you look here in Hawaii, you see tribal drawings...logos, window decals, tattoos. I thought I would give it a try on some of the ...

My daughter has been asking me to draw or paint a wolf ever since I painted our cat, Rosie for her. This is my first attempt, with some hel...

This painting was inspired by a photo posted by a fellow painter in the  Group Watercolor Painting Group Watercolor Painting  community. Mos...

I recently went to a demonstration by Steve Walters  and one of his tips to keep energy, passion, and spirit in a painting is to put bold co...

This painting was inspired from a photo posted by a fellow painter in the Group Watercolor Painting community. It is not something I would ...

I challenged myself with painting a goldfish. It has been a while since I painted any animals so I found a pic on Google images and started...

I seem to do well with a challenge someone gives me, or a competition. I never seem to win but it gets me motivated. So here is a challenge...

I came across this art competition on Instagram called skull-moth-flower. The rules were simple...the art has to include a skull, a moth, a...

Just playing around with some pastels...the ones I had felt more like chalk. A new medium to experiment with, and on 6"x6" black p...

My wife loves dragonflies and now that it is spring, they are all over the place! So a couple of weeks ago, partly inspired by fellow water ...

In anticipation of entering a piece of work in the Rancho Cordova City Hall mixed media exibit, I decided to try something new. Of course ...

After taking the " what animal are you " personality test that was on Facebook last week, I decided to continue my series of anima...

This painting was inspired by Paul Jackson's "Zebra Bust".  It's definitely a test of a steady hand with each of the strip...