A Creative Journey, by Michael Mitchell

I guess I have been a little obsessed with waterfalls, but spring time is the best time for it. I have had McArthur-Burney Falls on my bucke...

Here is another Yosemite inspired painting. I am still working from some photos that I took during my visit there last month. Yosemite Falls...

Yosemite has always been one of my favorite places, although I have never used it for inspiration in my paintings. Luckily Sacramento is jus...

This is a piece I have been meaning to do for a while but it it has just sat in the shelves of my brain waiting to be dusted off. I original...

Iao Needle, located within the Iao Valley State Park is one of the most recognizeable landmarks in Maui, not only for its striking natural b...

Originally, I had done this mountain landscape in pencil, inspired by a watercolor demonstration by Dale Laitinen.  It's fun to transf...

This sketch was inspired by a demonstration put on by WASH (Watercolor Art of Sacramento Horizons) at Sacramento Fine Arts Center.   The dem...

I've been a little slow creating this month, but here is a painting that was inspired by a demonstration by Juan Pena at the Sacrament...

So after my last post, Forest at Dawn , I decided to try keeping the same color blend in the sky. This one though has a combination of det...

I saw this art hanging on the wall at P F Changs and really liked the look of it so I thought I would recreate it myself. So I used ...

Here are some old drawings I had found in my sketchbook.  The first one is somewhere in the mountains above Los Angeles. I must have done i...

Black Hole of Calcutta Falls:  Sounds like a crazy name for a waterfall, and it wasn't that spectacular, but it was a quiet shady spot ...