"Hell's Bell" | The National Arts Program Foundation

Photo of bell pepper, December 14, 2024.

Photography

"Hell's Bell" is a photo of a bell pepper in a hellish environment. I like to put ordinary plants and vegetables under harsh illumination to create a hopefully surreal photographic image. Shot with an iPhone 15, December 14, 2024.

David Chamberlain

David Chamberlain

Venue: Virtual OPEN Exhibit

Classification: Adult Amateur

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Painting in Gouache and Colored Pencil.

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

Photograph of Boo Choy Vegetable, February 18, 2025.

Photograph of blossom, April 20, 2025.

"The Fires Of Spring"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, January, 2025.

"The Atlantic Conflagration Grouper and the Mediterranean Muddy Mullet"

"The Aquarelles" watercolor painting, 2021.

"The Aquarelles"

Pepper Flower

Photo of cabbage leaves. November 24, 2024.

Water Color and India Ink Witch

Watercolor wash.

Photo of acoustic bass violins using iPhone SE, 2023

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

"RED!"

Photo of wild mushroom and cicada shell, 2023.

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

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, May, 2025.

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

Painting in gouache, September, 2024

"Crosstown Traffic"

Photograph of banana leaf, August, 2025.

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

Photo of green tomato with Maple Seedpods.

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

"A Banjo & His Boy"

Painting in gouache, April, 2025.

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

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

" The Living Ocean" Gouache painting, September, 2024

"The Living Ocean"

Painting in gouache, November 26, 2024.

"The Southern Sibilant Soul Snatcher"

"Just Below", painting in gouache, 2024

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

"Space Is The Place"

Painting in acrylic on black surface, August, 2025.

"Space Is The Place"

Photograph of guitar neck and plant, June, 2025.

"Shapes Of Things"

Photo of elephant ear plant, October, 2024.

Acrylic paint and liquid on black surface, 2020.

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms

Fungus Among Us

Painting in India ink.

Abstract painting in watercolor, from 2020.

"Continental Drifters"

Gouache washes and colored pencils, July, 2024

The Painted Deep

Photograph of cactus blossoms, May 1, 2025.

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, September, 2024.

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

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms, October, 2024.

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

"The Dark Realm"

Painting in Watercolor, 2023

"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2021.

"Animal Vegetable Mineral, Part 5"

Painting in gouache, February 2025.

"Five Unpopular and Inedible Fruits"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2020.

Photograph of wild mushrooms, August, 2025.

"Fungus Among Us"

Watercolor washes, 2023

"All The Young Dudes"

Cartoon in MUJI pen and watercolor, June, 2024

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

" The Buoyant Boy"

Watercolor on Polyprophylene film.

"Brave Traveler" Acrylic painting, 2019

"Brave Traveler"

Watercolor, 2021

"The Kerguelen Islands Crested Vampire Roach."

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

Fish Painting in gouache, November 24, 2024.

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

Painting in India ink, 2020.

Painting in gouache, June, 2025.

"The Southern Ocean Breaststroke Quartet"

"Profile In Water"

"Water Brothers" Watercolor, June 2024

Painting in Gouache and colored pencil, August, 2025.

"Mid-Ocean Menagerie"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, February, 2025

"The Balkan Belch Bass and the South Atlantic Scatfish"

Lizard photo, June, 2024. iPhone SE.

"Suburban Dinosaur"

Two fishes. Painting in gouache, December, 2024.

"The Veridian Vigorous Virginfish and the Vermilion Vestal Vesperfish"

Watercolor wash 2024.

Photo of Bok Choy vegetable, October, 2024

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

Cartoon in MUJI pen with washes, November, 2024,

Painting in gouache, 2024.

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

Photo of Sunflower, July 2, 2025.

"Sunflower In Decline"

Abstract painting with watercolor wash and colored pencils, 2024.

"The Microscopic World"

Photo of 1950s Pontiac automobile.

Painting with marker, June 2025.

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, 2021

"Mid-Ocean Museum"

Painting with broad tipped pens, June 28, 2025.

"Rhythm Section"

Watercolor paintings of cephalopods from 2020.

"Cephalo - Series, Number 1"

Cartoon in ink and colored pencil, 2024

"Crazy Little Guitar Man"

Photograph of bananas, February, 2025.

Painting in acrylic, May 1, 2025.

"The Oceans Of Space Are Calling"

"Rush Hour" Watercolor, 2022

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "

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

"Fresh and Dead"

Cephalopod painting in India Ink, 2024.

"Armed Services"

Acrylic paints rolled with ink brayer on black surface.

Somewhere Below

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

Photo of rusted hot rod at auto graveyard, 2023.

The Raven. Painting in Gouache, 2024

"Quoth The Raven."

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

"Deep Encounter"

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

"Midnight Mood"

Photo of archtop jazz guitars 2024

Photo of wild mushrooms on red backdrop with LED illumination

Ink Drawing, October, 2024

"People On Paper"

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

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

" A Plutocrat In A Hat"

Photograph of Hosta plant, May 25, 2025.

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

"Faces Of Food"

Photograph of Oyster Mushrooms, April 12, 2025.

Painting in gouache, October, 2024.

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

"Forbidden Planet" Painting in acrylic from 2021.

"Forbidden Planet"

Photo of luthier Jeff Baxendale, 2021.

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

"Cabbages" Photo from 2022

"Cabbage Patch"

Painting in India ink with washes, 2023.

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"My Pet Microbes"

Painting in India ink, 2021.

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

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

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

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

Painting in Gouache, December, 2024.

"The Mysterious Traveler"

"Long Ago", watercolor painting from 2021.

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

Photo of Stratocaster style electric guitar, July 2024

"Strato-sphere"

Watercolor of imaginary squid and fish in motion, 2021.

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

Gouache painting of imaginary fish, June, 2024.

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

"Cooking School"