A little bit of white
Dear Clients. I have two fresh new paintings for you today, both on box canvases that have a painted 3.5cm edge all around the sides. First up is a large impressive Saint Paul’s Bay 1.2m x 1m. Notice the little strip of white in the sky? I thought it was a nice touch. Sometimes it’s…
Senglea commission
Dear Clients.I seem to be getting a lot of commissions recently. This one is to form part of a pair with another painting, ‘Mdina’, that had already been produced and was available for sale. The brief was simply to paint a landscape of Senglea on exactly the same sized box canvas, so they would look…
A Massive Valletta Triptych
Dear Client. Welcome to LeMakoo 2021, lets hope it is a better year for all of us. I’d like to introduce a triptych painting I did just before Christmas for a client on commission. It was big. Each canvas was 70x70cm and when you add the frames 80x80cm. Then you can add the space between…
The Azure Window
Dear Client I’d like to present LeMakoo’s latest commission. The Azure Window. It’s 1 metre by 80cm painted on a box canvas, I’m very proud of this one and the client is as well. If you’re thinking about a painting and would like to know more information including procedure and prices. Take a look at…
A new commission
Dear Client Just a short note to show you a new commission that has just been completed for a client Old Jaffa 2020, oil on canvas. 100x50cm. Old Jaffa Port is the ancient port of the city of Jaffa, out of which modern day Tel Aviv has grown. The Old Jaffa Port is reputed to…
Valletta and flowers
Hi, welcome to LeMakoo’s blog post featuring my most recent paintings. Two beautiful new paintings for you today, if you’re interested check out https://lemakoo.com/ for more. Here we have a new large Valletta. 120x60cm oil on box canvas See https://lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes-html/ for price etc. Then we have a flower arrangement. Acrylic on box canvas.60x80cm. See https://lemakoo.com/women-paintings-html/…
Beautiful Mdina
Dear Clients Ahh beautiful Mdina, one of the most gorgeous spots in Malta? I think so, one that I’ll never tire of painting. Here’s my latest effort, oil on a box canvas 80x60cm. see https://lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html/ And now we have a girl, Ellie. She’s the same size, acrylic on a box canvas 80x60cm. see https://lemakoo.com/women-paintings-html/ That’s…
Special paintings
Dear Clients. Hello again! I wish it was under better circumstances, the whole world seems to have changed since my last email. Usually, I try to introduce an element of humour into these emails, perhaps a parody of the hundreds of coronavirus emails you and I are receiving from every business that has our email…
Valletta and Carla
Dear Clients. I was going to write about the colour emerald green, used by oil painters. How once upon a time it was made with arsenic. How it was used to print books, wallpaper and a dye used in clothing. This would poison and kill as the risk was little known. But I just ruined…
Senglea and Fort St. Angelo
Dear Clients. I hope you’re all well. Three paintings for you today, two commissions and one for sale. First off is Senglea 50x80cm oil on canvas. This is for sale on LeMakoo.com Then two commissions, a commission is when a client orders a painting the size, subject and colours that they want. In this case, orange…
36 paintings a year
Dear Clients. I Hope you’re all well and had a great Easter. We have 2 paintings today and a commission. If you’re wondering why these emails come every month it’s because I tend to produce 3 paintings every 30 days or about 36 paintings a year, including commissions. Here’s my latest Valletta, a small one.…
Three Paintings
Dear Clients. I Hope you’re all well. Three new paintings for you today. First off a very atmospheric and moody Valletta A new large Valletta painted with yellows and gold. Valletta Gold 2019. 120x60cm oil on canvas. Last but not least, everyone’s favourite beach Ghajn Tuffieha. 70x50cm, oil on canvas. That’s all, thanks for…
A new thing for LeMakoo, “Resin Art”
Dear Clients. A new thing for LeMakoo, “Resin Art”. Resin is poured over the top of a painting that gives it a thick clear coat, it makes them look very shiny, reflective and has that ”wow” factor. You can mix colours with the resin or pour a clear layer on a completed traditional work. Here’s…
Brand new Mdina, Valletta and a Luzzu.
Dear Clients. Welcome to 2019 from LeMakoo, I have already made my first ”date mistake” by signing this painting 2018 instead of 2019. Ho well, luckily nobody will ever know apart from you and I 🙂 Valletta, signed ”LeMakoo Valletta 2018” 40x30cm. Oil on canvas. Another Valletta here, rather large 120x80cm. Oil on box canvas.…
A bit of fun
Hello Everyone! Brrrr, it’s cold now in Malta, The weather just changes overnight. Three new paintings for you today First a commission based on another LeMakoo 60x80cm Mdina night 2018 Then a freshly painted wee Valletta Night 30x50cm oil on canvas available for 300 euros framed. I’m really happy with the way this one turned…
Lots of LeMakoo’s and news
Ok, lots of news… Firstly, I think It’s almost been a year since my last missive, no excuses. I find it easier to paint than to write. Got an email from a young man in Melbourne who came across one of my first paintings in a second hand store in MELBOURNE! Considering at that time…
Half finished
OK hello, it’s been awhile 🙂 Last year actually, September was my last email to you, but I hope you had a good Christmas and new year. Been a good one for me so far. New work Commissioned. 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Oil on canvas 2mx1.5m This was fun, so I’ve opened a separate page…
Australia, Baroque and new art
Hello again dear clients!
I’m back from a five week holiday to Asia and Australia, a great time.
Cool paintings
Dear Clients Hello from heatwave Malta, oh boy it’s a great summer for the beach rather than sitting in front of a computer like me. However there are two benefits. The oil paint is drying so fast it’s unbelievable, about two hours as opposed to two days. This I have never seen before. So I’m…
Balluta and Butterflies
Dear Clients Balluta Bay. One of the most beautiful urban scenes in Malta? Luckily it has survived the concrete tower scenario that has plagued most of our coastline. Plus, I have always wanted to paint it and after nine years I finally got the opportunity with a nice, big, juicy commission. Balluta Bay. 1.5metres x…
Michelangelo and LeMakoo
Dear Clients I’ve always wanted to put those two words together in a headline. And it’s true! A LeMakoo painting exhibition in the foyer of Eden cinemas just before the one screening of the film, Michelangelo Love and Death. If you’d like more information about the film and to book tickets click here. For one…
Latest news
Dear Clients I always start these emails with ”it’s been awhile” This time I have no excuses 🙂 Lots of work to show you so I’ll just dive straight in. But before I do, I’d like to say that my new gallery is open and will be open forever, no parties, fan fair or opening…
A Golden Period
It’s been awhile! November, or three months since my last missive. However, since then and after a lot of hard work, I now have a massive new studio and gallery. https://lemakoo.com/contact/ Pictures of it and me looking happy will follow soon. Bet you can’t wait. I now have over 20m of white gallery walls covered…
Bridges, buildings and a new website
Dear Clients First off a new LeMakoo website! I know I know, big deal, I always think the same when I hear a company saying the same thing. It’s probably because they take so much work to actually finish, and the owner feels proud but nobody else cares unless you happen to be facebook. Check it…
Colour and weddings
Dear Clients Busy, busy, busy with little time for marketing, just a quick catch up. And it’s a hot. hot, hot studio here in Malta today as Europe basks in a heatwave. First off a big commission Madonna and Valletta white 160x60cm oil on custom canvas framed. A very colourful painting for a bedroom, plus…
New Paintings
Dear Clients Let me start with a new small Valletta Valletta Gold 2016. 30x40cm oil on canvas. Signed LeMakoo, 2016 Yellows, purples and a touch of red, I love the sky. Untitled 2016. 60x60cm oil on canvas. Signed LeMakoo, 2016 Nice and dreamy this one, would look good really large, 2mx1m, will do one day…
Panama and Art
Dear Clients Whenever there’s money there’s art. If you need to hide your art collection from a government or a pending divorce, seems there’s no better way than a shell corporation from Mossack Fonseca. ‘The Guardian, summarising the staggering range of unsavoury activities revealed by a first pass through the so called ”Panama papers”, has the…
Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq and a face
Dear Client Two new paintings for you today, first off is Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq 100x50cm Oil on canvas. Alizarin crimson, yelllow, blue. With a yellow glaze on top. Plus I have added a seat, for the many times I have wished there was one 🙂 Next up a painting that I don’t like, but everybody else…
Colour dynamics and 4 new works
Dear Client One thing I’ll never tire of is discovering new colour mixes, for instance this painting. (St Paul’s Bay 1.2m x 70cm, oil on canvas.) Is painted using mainly gold oil paint. it mixes really well with yellow, black and white. It is the only way I’ve found to get that particular Maltese sunset…
Mummy Brown and two stunning commissions
Dear Client Two great commissions for you today, first off a large Valletta based on a smaller version that can be seen in Maltese landscapes on the website. The clients wanted the length of the bastions extended and more detail added to them. 2 metres x 85cm oil on canvas. Then we have a commission…
Paintings and my once a year offer
Dear clients It’s been awhile, when I get busy marketing suffers, but hey, I’d rather be painting 🙂 There’s been quite a few new works and at the moment and I’m in the busiest commissioning period that I’ve ever had, plus they’re all nice and big. first off Valletta purple. 60x40cm oil on canvas, framed.…
My largest ever public exhibition. 22-25th Oct. MFCC.
Dear Clients, just a quick update. I’d like to invite you to my exhibition at the Malta home fair this week. On display will be all my work, over 40 paintings and all my private collection. It’s a biggie for me, my largest ever and it would be great to see you there. http://www.mfcc.com.mt/venue/exhibitions/mfcc-home-and-interiors-exhibition-2015 Click for times…
A Big Thanks
Dear Client Lot of new work for you today. Busy as always. First off is a commission ”Sunset” from a client to hang in the bedroom. On three panels oil on canvas, measuring over a metre wide. See http://www.lemakoo.com/commissions.html I must say, having just looked at the commission page again. There’s so much beautiful work…
Glimpse
Dear Client Some nice work for you today, it’s been awhile as I’ve moved house and studio. I’m now working away in Pembroke. Here’s a recent commission The client wanted to brighten up his hallway and now I’m working on one for the bedroom. These ones were all 90x60cm oil on box canvas And lastly…
Imagination
Dear Client Three today, first a Madliena tower. 60x90cm oil on box canvas, stark and beautiful. Just 3 colours plus a red flag. (signifying live ammunition being fired by the armed forces) It’s sold I’m afraid, sold just after I finished it. I’m thinking of the next one already. For example why have I never…
A Beautiful Country
Dear Client Two for you today, a new Citadella which is I think one of the most amazing views in Malta, second to Valletta and on a par with Mdina. I’m spoilt for choice in Malta, painting does remind me what a beautiful country this is. Citadella, 1 metre x 50cm oil on canvas, available…
Mdina, Valletta and Wings
Dear Client Three paintings for you today Mdina. 1mx1m oil on box canvas, Valletta 1mx70cm oil on canvas and Angel Blue, Ink on paper 69x92cm. Angel is actually one that I worked on again after letting her sit for a few years. Funnily enough, I’ve only just noticed she has only three visible fingers, I’m…
Latest Art
Dear clients Hope you’re well, two finished commissions and a Valletta for you today. First off Lizards, 120x130cm oil on canvas The completed Senglea commission from my last email. 2.5×1.5 metres. And finally a small (in comparison) Valletta, 40x60cm Still drying on my wall as we speak. That’s all, any questions, just ask. Have a…
What would you like?
Hello dear clients. As always, very busy at LeMakoo, paintings are flying off to the corners of the earth whilst new owners are awaiting the postman, plus I have some large commissions that I’m working away on. This one of Senglea is large, in the multiple metres and is destined for Australia, my birth place.…
Warm colours in winter
Dear Client Seems I’m stuck on reds and oranges at the moment, perhaps I’m trying to counteract the cold weather here in Malta. So beautiful this one, I’d like to keep it. For sale. Signed, LeMakoo Valletta 2015, 60x40cm Oil on canvas Large at over a metre, would certainly make a wall sing, proud of…
2015 Latest Art
Dear Client Wishing you all the best for 2015. So far this year I’ve signed three paintings ‘2015’ here’s wishing for many more. First off is a commission based on a previous LeMakoo, Valletta Sunset 1.2 metres by 60cm oil on canvas. Very happy with this one. It is however taking a long time to…
A commission story and a redo offer
Dear Client A commission story for you today. The client liked a previous LeMakoo painting and wanted something similar to an exact size to cover a panel near their front door, exactly 120x90cm. The painting they liked was one I did years ago of Valletta, featuring some pretty strong colours with a very intense sky.…
Two paintings and if Leonardo had a website
Dear client Welcome to my 67th newsletter. They’re all stored on https://lemakoo.wordpress.com/ should you be interested. There is a gap around 2010-11 because my site was hijacked by some German hackers that destroyed lots of work. It’s interesting being an artist and having to deal with the internet, websites, emails etc. I wonder what Carravagio’s,…
Genius and a special offer
Dear Client We all have those genius moments, for me it’s the second after I finish a painting that I like. Then it goes. Then at least a week of effort is required to hopefully recapture that ‘second’ providing all goes well. Anyway, here’s a few ‘genius seconds’ St Paul’s Bay, 60c90cm oil on box…
Valletta Lights
Dear client Two new paintings for you today first off is Valletta Lights 70 x 80cm Oil on canvas, signed LeMakoo Valletta Lights 2014. For sale http://www.lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html It’s a sunrise off a photograph I took, interestingly enough I discovered there’s a great deal of white in sunrises. Then there’s another Valletta 120x60cm Oil on canvas.…
Last chance and a painting
Dear Client My Intercontinental hotel St Julian’s exhibition will finish this Monday the 1st of September 2014. It was good, went for two months and resulted in the sale of four paintings. Many thanks for those who came, and if you haven’t, there’s still this weekend left, it’s located in the Club lounge. My thoughts…
New stunning Valletta night and Citadella painting
Dear Client Two new works for you today, first off is Valletta night. 35x50cm Oil on canvas, signed LeMakoo, available for 300 euros. Bigger image on http://www.lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html and Citadella. 100x50cm Oil on canvas, signed LeMakoo, available for 600 euros. Thank you Cheers Mike — Michael Wright Artist http://www.lemakoo.com http://www.facebook.com/lemakoo —
Intercontinental exhibition and more
Dear Client Two new paintings and an exhibition Valletta Green, 90x90cm oil on canvas, for sale 600euros. See http://www.lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html For a larger image. Larger, but not necessarily better in terms of photography, this painting is vivid! And hence very difficult for the camera to capture properly, the green and the yellow colours tend to confuse…
Latest five paintings
Dear Client OK, here’s four new paintings commissioned for a hallway, all landscapes of Malta. These are painted on box canvases, so that you can see the sides lead into the painting from the kinds of viewing angles you get in a hallway. 1) Madliena Tower, Pembroke 2) Gnejna bay 3) Fomm ir-rih bay 4)…
A tree and a sea
Dear Client Lots’a Blue for you today Latest Work ‘Tree’ 90x90cm Oil on canvas, see http://www.lemakoo.com/flowers-and-forests.html It’s interesting when you paint a tree, you see just how much personality they have. After laying thousands of strokes, you get to the stage where just one stroke can change the entire ‘feeling’ of the painting. It becomes,…
Latest art
Dear Client Very busy at LeMakoo at the moment with three new commissions to produce. I seem to be getting a lot of work from being one of the (if not the) highest ranking art website in Malta. If you google ‘Paintings Malta’ you’ll see what I mean. In fact, any search to do with…
Art and Gold mining
Dear Client I hope this finds you well, I’d like to show you my latest paintings. At the moment I have produced three in this ‘tree’ series. The first one ‘Tree Blue’ was in my last email. Here’s the latest. ‘Tree green’ 90x90cm Oil on canvas http://www.lemakoo.com/flowers-and-forests.html ‘Tree red’ 90x90cm Oil on canvas http://www.lemakoo.com/flowers-and-forests.html Artists…
Sydney and Valletta
Dear client Two paintings today, first a commission from Sydney, my original home town. The client wanted a big view of the harbour and the city/Opera house. So I sent him a photograph and we went from there. It’s a nice view, plus very popular with me as I used to go fishing from there…
Filfla Orange
Hi Clients I have a confession to make, I laid down the brushes for about 3 weeks. Just didn’t have the urge, the ideas, nothing but a blank canvas staring at me. This is quite normal for an artist, I was once taught that the way to break it was to paint the canvas any…
Three Blue paintings
Dear Client Three new paintings today, one of a stormy Malta and one of a woman and a ‘Two trees’ commission. Madliena tower, photographed during the stormy weather recently. Interestingly, I used bronze oil paint for the detail on this landscape. http://www.lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html A 2x1metre ‘Two trees’ commission produced over the Christmas period for a couple…
LeMakoo newsletter. Surprises and a recap
Dear Clients I’ve had a few wedding commissions this January, they say London buses always come in threes and so did these. Unfortunately I can’t show you any of them as, obviously, it could ruin the surprise on the odd chance the recipient saw it. I’ve just been wrapping up the 2013 review. LeMakoo sold…
Mellieha and Fort St Angelo
Dear Client Today I’d like to show you two new paintings from LeMakoo The first is Fort St Angelo. She’s oil on canvas, 1mx80cm and available for 650 euros, signed LeMakoo 2013. To see a better image. http://www.lemakoo.com/maltese-landscapes.html Second, a Mellieha commission. 120c60cm Oil on canvas. I forget how many times people have asked for…
Celebrating 200th painting sold, with a special offer
Dear Client Last week I sold my 200th painting, not including charity donations, which is a major milestone for leMakoo that I’m very proud of. To celebrate I’m going to offer one of my email subscribers the chance to own an original LeMakoo (any LeMakoo for sale on the website, not a commission) for a…
Valletta graffiti
Dear Client LeMakoo has had a bit of fun on facebook recently 🙂 For the benefit of my foreign clients, Valletta has a main entrance. It has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. It is now in the process of being rebuilt by a famous and successful architect. An anonymous graffiti artist put this on…
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