"Tremor" oil painting, 30"x 40" canvas (2020) #Art #OilPainting #Surrealism #Landscape #FineArt #Painting #Clouds #Mountains #River #Canvas

"Nature Gets Its Way" (oil painting, 18"x 24" canvas) 2021 #oilpainting #surrealism #art #landscape #painting

"Natural Sight" oil painting, 16"x 20" canvas panel #art #oilpainting #canvasart #surrealist #surrealism #abstractart #contemporaryart #traditionalart

The #moon, as it was an hour ago.

"Knowledge" oil painting, 20"x 24" canvas (2009) #art #painting #oilpainting #canvas #abstract #surrealism #forest

"Sail" (acrylic painting, 16"x 20" canvas) 2008 #art #artist #landscape #surreal #surrealism #acrylics #painting #ink

I had to rebuild the carburetor, clean out the gas tank, replace the oil, oil filter, and fuel valve... but my old Suzuki drz125l now lives once again✨️

"Quiet Cave" acrylic painting, 16"x 20" canvas panel (2008) #acrylic #painting #surrealism #abstract #surrealist #pink #purple #orange #Cave #tree #meditation

"Roo" Acrylic painting on a 16"x 20" canvas panel, 2008. #painting #acrylics #surrealism #mushroom #abstract #art

HOPE (1997) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 13” x 10” Ammonites have always been meant as a personal form of “memento mori” symbols in my art. They are cautionary reminders of our impermanence. 1/3

Don’t look at her eyes too long, or you’ll get sucked into ⚫░t░h░e░ ░v░o░i░d░⚫

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind still has a chokehold on my heart after all these years.

Happy fall!

"The Whale" oil on canvas, 24"x 36" #oilpainting #surrealism #landscape

In 2012, I filmed and edited together some short nature videos set to the music of Boards Of Canada. This is one of them, called "Sky", featuring the song "Corsair".

Night Migration Oil, 30x20in, 2024 at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month! In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.

"Trail of the Dream Titans", illustration for Numenera, 2017. Really quite a milestone piece. It showed what was possible with clients that trusted me to create something interesting from scratch, no brief or prompt of any kind.

OPEN (1992) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20" X 40" This painting represents a point of tangency between my Passage universe and the paintings in another series called Sanctuary. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/op...

THE GLOAMING (1994) Oils on canvas - 48" x 36" I actually saw these clouds from my backyard late one summer evening, and they inspired me to come right inside and paint the scene. 1/3

Something I've never finished.

I am on a lifelong quest to paint super round, chunky flowers that look like cabbages. This is the latest installation!

Night Blooms, charcoal on toned illustration board ✍️🎨

I’m so excited to finally share this news with you! Here’s the very first painting I’ve created for The King of Elfland’s Daughter. This beautiful edition book will be published by the @ConversationTreePress "Princess Lirazel" 18x24 inches, oils on copper panel #TheKingOfElflandsDaughter

The Faerie Window 2025 I was looking at Eyvind Earle and Maxfield Parrish before and while working on this. I think I ended up being myself in the end, though.

just a fun little experiment 🖤

WARMING HER WINGS (2012) Acrylic on Panel - 11" x 14" In fall, the sun sets on the west side of our property to shine through the trees. On a humid day, the light seems suspended in the thick air, spreading against the dark shapes of the trees, fanning golden brilliance across the green lawn. 1/5

It's my birthday and I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces of art I've done in the last couple of years 🤗

FOAL Graphite

Neptune’s Dream, gouache and colored pencil (and a few Wip shots)

"The Axolotl Parade" (14x18 inches, oils on copper panel) Prints are on Gallery Gerard 🌿 I had so much fun working on this one! #AxolotlArt #AxolotlLove #AmphibianArt #AnimalArt

MISTY PATH (2002) Acrylic on Panel - 24" x 18" Based on an experience I had while hiking in a local park on a very foggy day. There was a path that runs through an overhanging mass of vines and other foliage near a lake... 1/2

Siren

"Somewhere Deep" oil painting on canvas panel (11"x 14") #OilPainting #TraditionalPainting #Surrealism #LandscapePainting

Siempre el grafito, mi preferido. #art #surrealart #drawing #surrealdrawing #surrealism #graphitedrawin #noai

I’ve created at least a gazillion drawings called “colorful heads” by now. Here’s the latest installation 🎨

"Watching Earth Burn From Baco" Oil on canvas, 24"x 36" #oilpainting #oilpaintingoncanvas #art #TraditionalPainting #Surrealism

The Snapping Birdle (9x12 oil on board)⁠ 🐢

Will-O'-Wisp, 2016 At some point I'd really love to redo one of my older pieces. This one is a contender. There are always so many things I want to work on...

ANGEL OF OTHERLAND (1999) Preliminary concept for MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 9 ½” x 6” When the series by Tad Williams was pitched—originally as a trilogy—I seized on the idea of having each of book dominated by a key color of the basic art spectrum... 1/2

Saved this turtle yesterday

MOON'S WINDOW (2007) Acrylic on Panel - 7" X 5" This window was suggested by shapes at the Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire England. (Nothing to do with the painting, but Whitby is where Count Dracula landed when he arrived in England...) 1/3

Green night 💚 #landscape #landscapeart

If you see this, post your green art 💚

"Connection" oil painting, 16"x 20" canvas #OilPainting #TraditionalPainting #CanvasArt #art #FineArt #painting #oilpaintingoncanvas #Surrealist #Surrealism

DOORWAY TO THE WEST (2006) Acrylic on Panel - 12” x 9” Another search for the light. Creating the illusion of texture in paint, the process of actually painting it, can be an act of meditation. 1/2

"Influence" Oil pastel on paper, 14"x 17" This is one of my early works (from ~2007) #oilpastel #art #abstractart #surrealism

Mermaid portrait for #Mermay