"Oyster Bed" | The National Arts Program Foundation

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms, October, 2024.

Photography

This is a photo of Oyster Mushrooms that I purchased for immediate consumption, but I realized pretty quickly that they are also very surreal and photogenic when lit, and so I went to my studio first before the kitchen!
Photo taken with iPhone SE, October, 2024.

David Chamberlain

David Chamberlain

Venue: Virtual OPEN Exhibit

Classification: Adult Amateur

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Painting in gouache and colored pencils, February, 2025

"The Balkan Belch Bass and the South Atlantic Scatfish"

"The Explorers". Photo of snail and Canna lily leaf, June, 2024.

"Just Below", painting in gouache, 2024

"Plutocrat In A Hat" Gouache painting, September, 2024

" A Plutocrat In A Hat"

"Rush Hour" Watercolor, 2022

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, September, 2024.

The Velvet Throated Bubble Fish and The Southern Ocean Crowing Carp"

Cephalopod painting in India Ink, 2024.

"Armed Services"

Photo of Sunflower, July 2, 2025.

"Sunflower In Decline"

"A Banjo & His Boy" Scratchboard painting in India ink, 2020.

"A Banjo & His Boy"

Photo of rusted hot rod at auto graveyard, 2023.

Painting in Gouache and colored pencil, August, 2025.

"Mid-Ocean Menagerie"

Watercolor wash.

"Leaving" Photograph of autumn leaves, November 28, 2024.

" The Living Ocean" Gouache painting, September, 2024

"The Living Ocean"

Photo of archtop jazz guitars 2024

Photograph of Boo Choy Vegetable, February 18, 2025.

Photo of Stratocaster style electric guitar, July 2024

"Strato-sphere"

Watercolor wash 2024.

Painting in gouache, April, 2025.

"The Golden Bellied Ghost Guppy and the Sargasso Sebaceous Snark Shark"

"Cooking School" - Photograph of dead fish, April 11, 2025.

"Cooking School"

"Long Ago", watercolor painting from 2021.

Painting in Gouache, December, 2024.

"The Mysterious Traveler"

Gouache painting of imaginary fish, June, 2024.

Photo of elephant ear plant, October, 2024.

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"My Pet Microbes"

Photo of 1950s Pontiac automobile.

"The Buoyant Boy". India Ink Scratchboard Technique, 2020.

" The Buoyant Boy"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, 2021

"Mid-Ocean Museum"

Watercolor, 2021

"The Kerguelen Islands Crested Vampire Roach."

Painting in acrylic on black surface, August, 2025.

"Space Is The Place"

Painting in India ink, 2020.

Painting in Watercolor, 2023

"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"

Painting in gouache, February 2025.

"Five Unpopular and Inedible Fruits"

Watercolor washes, 2023

"All The Young Dudes"

"Horn Section" is a watercolor painting dome with squeegee sponge, 2022

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, May, 2025.

"The Southern Subterranean Squamous Squid and the Siberian Saliva Smelt"

Acrylic paint and liquid on black surface, 2020.

Photo of cabbage leaves. November 24, 2024.

Photo of acoustic bass violins using iPhone SE, 2023

Photograph of banana leaf, August, 2025.

Photograph of bananas, February, 2025.

"Grandpa", photograph of tomato and rusty scissors, November, 2022.

"Cabbages" Photo from 2022

"Cabbage Patch"

Painting in gouache, November 26, 2024.

"The Southern Sibilant Soul Snatcher"

Photograph of cactus blossoms, May 1, 2025.

"Forbidden Planet" Painting in acrylic from 2021.

"Forbidden Planet"

Painting in India ink with washes, 2023.

Painting with marker, June 2025.

Drawing of imaginary person in MUJI pen and colored pencil, June 2024

"Lost World", painting in acrylic on black surface using ink brayers.

Photo of wild mushrooms on red backdrop with LED illumination

Ink Drawing, October, 2024

"People On Paper"

Photograph of Oyster Mushrooms, April 12, 2025.

Two fishes. Painting in gouache, December, 2024.

"The Veridian Vigorous Virginfish and the Vermilion Vestal Vesperfish"

Painting in India ink, 2021.

"The Stygian Stunt Squid and the Blackened Bituminous Bayou Bass"

Abstract painting with watercolor wash and colored pencils, 2024.

"The Microscopic World"

Photograph of Hosta plant, May 25, 2025.

Cartoon in MUJI pen and watercolor, June, 2024

Lizard photo, June, 2024. iPhone SE.

"Suburban Dinosaur"

Pepper Flower

Acrylic paints rolled with ink brayer on black surface.

Somewhere Below

Painting with broad tipped pens, June 28, 2025.

"Rhythm Section"

Cartoon in ink and colored pencil, 2024

"Crazy Little Guitar Man"

Photograph of guitar neck and plant, June, 2025.

"Shapes Of Things"

Watercolor paintings of cephalopods from 2020.

"Cephalo - Series, Number 1"

Photo of bell pepper, December 14, 2024.

"Space Is The Place", Painting in acrylic, September, 2024

"Space Is The Place"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, April 24, 2025.

"Deep Encounter"

"Brave Traveler" Acrylic painting, 2019

"Brave Traveler"

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms

Fungus Among Us

"Kong". India Ink painting with big paintbrush, 2019.

Watercolor of imaginary squid and fish in motion, 2021.

"Water Brothers" Watercolor, June 2024

Photo of luthier Jeff Baxendale, 2021.

Painting in gouache, October, 2024.

"The Sebaceous Sargasso Squid and the Caribbean Cobalt Crevasse Carp"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2020.

Abstract painting in watercolor, from 2020.

"Continental Drifters"

"Cabbage Town", photo of illuminated vegetable, May 1, 2025.

Photo of dead fish in grocery store, November, 2024.

"Faces Of Food"

Cartoon in MUJI pen with washes, November, 2024,

Photo of wild mushroom and cicada shell, 2023.

"The Dark Realm" Acrylic paints on rubber, 2023.

"The Dark Realm"

Painting in gouache, September, 2024

"Crosstown Traffic"

Painting in gouache, June, 2025.

"The Southern Ocean Breaststroke Quartet"

Painting in India ink.

Photograph of blossom, April 20, 2025.

"The Fires Of Spring"

Late night photo of Eastman archtop jazz guitar, 2022. I used an iPhone SE with illumination.

"Midnight Mood"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, January, 2025.

"The Atlantic Conflagration Grouper and the Mediterranean Muddy Mullet"

"Nemo" cartoon, 2021, MUJI pens and colored pencils.

"Profile In Water"

Photo of guitarist Tom Gray's hands, September, 2021

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "

Photo of maple leaf and tomato, April 2, 2025.

Photograph of wild mushrooms, August, 2025.

"Fungus Among Us"

Photograph of dead leaf and oranges, December 7, 2024.

"Fresh and Dead"

Fish Painting in gouache, November 24, 2024.

"The South Pacific Dirigible Fish and the Middle Mediterranean Lasso Mullet "

Painting in Gouache and Colored Pencil.

"The Tentacled Tasmanian Termagant Trout and the Indian Ocean Intestinal Ichthyoid"

"Luna" - photo of Luna Moth, August, 2024.

"Soul Crab". Painting in gouache, September, 2024

Painting in gouache, 2024.

Photo of wild mushrooms. I used an iPhone SE, October, 2024.

Watercolor on Polyprophylene film.

The Raven. Painting in Gouache, 2024

"Quoth The Raven."

Photo of green tomato with Maple Seedpods.

Water Color and India Ink Witch

Painting in acrylic, May 1, 2025.

"The Oceans Of Space Are Calling"

Photo of Bok Choy vegetable, October, 2024

Gouache washes and colored pencils, July, 2024

The Painted Deep

"RED!"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2021.

"Animal Vegetable Mineral, Part 5"

Photo of Canna Lily, 2024. Taken with iPhone SE.

"The Aquarelles" watercolor painting, 2021.

"The Aquarelles"