A Creative Journey, by Michael Mitchell

This painting is based on a photo I took while visiting a local nursery having a harvest festival. They had piles and piles of pumpkins read...

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...

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...

It has been more than 6 months since I have painting from a live model so I'm a little out of practice. I headed over to Patris' St...

Sometimes after letting a painting sit for a while, I will go back and see if I can improve on it.  Usually it doesn't take a month befo...

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

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...

The weather here in California is just too nice to paint inside, so I took advantage of a warm February afternoon to head down to the river....

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

This is my favorite time of year, and with the beautiful weather here in California, I have been enjoying going for walks along the American...

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...

There are so many opportunities to paint plein air at Lake Tahoe, sometimes I get overwhelmed. I just want to soak it in mentally, take pic...

A friend had invited me to an "Artober" festival where they invited several plein aire painters, face painters, etc. It was cent...

I taught a class about water coloring to my Artist Way group, focusing on different effects that can be created with watercolor. We started ...

Being inspired by my daughter's special effects make-up, Autumn Eliza SFX , I decided to do a portrait of one of her "zombies"...

It seems like it's been awhile since I went to Patris' studio for the 2nd Saturday long pose.  Drawing people really takes continuou...

After letting this sit awhile as just blue yogananda , I decided to complete him by adding in color to give it more depth. I am still questi...

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 ...

This painting had a different process than I usually do. The portrait was  inspired by a quick ball point pen sketch of a water fountain tha...