Michelle Channel has had a love for horses all of her life. With a busy full time job and 4 kids, finding time to be with horses hasn't been very successful of late. So starting up drawing again, has proved to be the best way to be close to them again.
Michelle ran another business called Artist's Touch which was founded in 1993 when she was a stay at home mom. Now the horses are calling again.
"Founding another venture with her husband Steve through the Internet will allow them to market her designs without interfering with the time that the family needs." Jon at 16 in kung Fu, and Rosa 15 in marching band, and little Raina just 4, and then there is Owen who is just 1. They keep them jumping with an array of kid agendas which are just now letting up with Jon, who now has a drivers license.
Having drawn since she was a child, many of her drawings were given to classmates she attended school with at Utica High School. She also took classes from one of the local artists George Arensberg, and a fellow Equine Artist Dr. Marilyn Todd Daniels in Whitewright Texas. While taking classes in Texas with Daniels, Michelle discovered a new love of pastels. So you will see some color creations available now as well.
"I use to sell my artwork through trade magazines, word of mouth, and equine type gatherings. Now I want to do commissioned portraits not only in my favored detailed pencil sketches but expand to pastels and also photography." So in these web pages you will find samplings of original artwork in all three venues."
Michelle works from photos that customers send, along with photos that she takes out on location.
Within these web pages you will find some of her favorites shirts available again after being retired for almost 10 years. Michelle says she sometimes wonders if there are still some of these creations out there that people still wear from back then. She can remember going to the trade shows and seeing people with her shirts and they always looked so new.
A process that between her detail in the artwork and the screening process that allows the shirt to bend without breaking the image so that it wears and washes better than most out on the market.
The high detail in her pencil drawings comes through in the screening process, due to a scanning process offered by M&H Screen Printing in Heath, Ohio. That business does all of Channel's screen printing.
