A Creative Journey, by Michael Mitchell

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

Here is a painting based on a photo posted by the Group Watercolor Painting community on G+ Of a hydrangea. The hydrangea has a ball with hu...

The plumeria flower, most popular for its use in leis, comes in such a variety of colors. This painting is based off a photo my wife had tak...

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 ...

This was an interesting challenge that a fellow artist, Isabella Kramer , posed to the Google+ community, Group Watercolor Painting , The co...

A beautiful spring day along the American River, I went out to enjoy the river and sun with some friends. Of course I was inspired to do som...

Ok, after last week's portrait practice, I decided I better practice some more. Here is a sketch I did during a watercolor workshop by...

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 have not done very many watercolors of flowers...it seems to be a popular subject though, and spring is the perfect opportunity to get som...

This is the second challenge that I have taken on that was presented by the Google+ community Group Watercolor Painting. The concept behind...

Sometimes painting is more about the process than the end product. This piece was inspired by my Artist Way group, and started with a medita...

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...

This painting was inspired by a video posted by Mikko Tyllinen on Google + demonstrating how he painted "Blue Flowers". I love ho...

I started this project a while back with some  Earth Day art , and it was supposed to be an "abandoned art" project where these ...

I offered to donate an original watercolor for the Spiritual Life Center silent auction. I decided to create something new, instead of look...

Just thought I would share some daisies that I was practicing. These were created by painting the negative space around the flower and then ...

Happy Easter! With all of the flowers in bloom, it's hard to resist painting them.  I had never attempted painting flowers other than in...