Michele Thompson is a contemporary American artist using a limited palette to create textured, emotive paintings.

Pondering the interconnectedness of Nature through an exploration of vitality and inner experience.

  • An artist is working on a landscape painting, depicting trees and water, using an impressionist painting style with textured brushstrokes. A large green leafy plant can be seen in the foreground, and a wooden mask is visible in the background.

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  • Close-up of a person holding a pinkish-brown notebook or binder with tiny yellow flowers and some small white objects along the edge, with a blurred background.

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  • A beige and white cat with dark ears sitting on a gray upholstered couch in a living room. There is a large potted plant with big green leaves to the right, a framed painting of a landscape on the wall behind, and a decorative lamp reflected in a circular mirror on the wall.

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Overtones & Undertones

Cover image for the art collection titled "Overtones & Undertones" by Michele Thompson, featuring a stylized symmetrical photograph of a bird with outstretched wings, with a blurred background and a pink flower at the top.
Text overlay on blurred background mentioning artist Michele Thompson, her work 'Overtones & Undertones', an artist's behind-the-scenes look, merging creative work with reflections on grief, nature, and responsibility, along with her website URL.

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View fullsize This provides an explanation for my absence. The painting: an untitled, and possibly unfinished, self portrait that I've worked on throughout the year. It diverges from my typical landscape subject matter, but it is how I've processed my life over
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View fullsize A simple composition to tune up my drawing skills. Pastels, limited colors (explicitly no blues). It wasn't supposed to be a rendered drawing but here we are, I got lost in it. Could be a bit cleaner, but ultimately, a fun weekend project! ▫️ I LOVE
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Three seashells in a vertical arrangement, the top is white and gray, the middle is bright yellow, and the bottom is brown.
Three blobs of paint in red, blue, and black colors

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