"Just Below" | The National Arts Program Foundation

"Just Below", painting in gouache, 2024

Painting

"Just Below" is a gouache painting that reflects my artistic fascination with the unknown world of the oceans. Painted in 2024.

David Chamberlain

David Chamberlain

Venue: Virtual OPEN Exhibit

Classification: Adult Amateur

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Photograph of Oyster Mushrooms, April 12, 2025.

Painting in India ink with washes, 2023.

Watercolor on Polyprophylene film.

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

Watercolor, 2021

"The Kerguelen Islands Crested Vampire Roach."

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2020.

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "

Watercolor wash.

"Rush Hour" Watercolor, 2022

Painting in India ink, 2021.

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

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

"Midnight Mood"

Photograph of wild mushrooms, August, 2025.

"Fungus Among Us"

Painting in Gouache, December, 2024.

"The Mysterious Traveler"

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

Photo of cabbage leaves. November 24, 2024.

Photograph of blossom, April 20, 2025.

"The Fires Of Spring"

Photograph of cactus blossoms, May 1, 2025.

Painting in India ink.

"Water Brothers" Watercolor, June 2024

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, February, 2025

"The Balkan Belch Bass and the South Atlantic Scatfish"

Painting in acrylic, May 1, 2025.

"The Oceans Of Space Are Calling"

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

Two fishes. Painting in gouache, December, 2024.

"The Veridian Vigorous Virginfish and the Vermilion Vestal Vesperfish"

Lizard photo, June, 2024. iPhone SE.

"Suburban Dinosaur"

Photo of Sunflower, July 2, 2025.

"Sunflower In Decline"

Painting in Gouache and colored pencil, August, 2025.

"Mid-Ocean Menagerie"

Abstract painting with watercolor wash and colored pencils, 2024.

"The Microscopic World"

Photo of 1950s Pontiac automobile.

Ink Drawing, October, 2024

"People On Paper"

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

Photograph of banana leaf, August, 2025.

Painting in Watercolor, 2023

"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"

Photo of bell pepper, December 14, 2024.

Painting with broad tipped pens, June 28, 2025.

"Rhythm Section"

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, 2021

"Mid-Ocean Museum"

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

Water Color and India Ink Witch

"The Aquarelles" watercolor painting, 2021.

"The Aquarelles"

Painting in gouache, February 2025.

"Five Unpopular and Inedible Fruits"

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

"Profile In Water"

" The Living Ocean" Gouache painting, September, 2024

"The Living Ocean"

"Long Ago", watercolor painting from 2021.

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

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

Photograph of Hosta plant, May 25, 2025.

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

"Faces Of Food"

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

"Deep Encounter"

Cartoon in ink and colored pencil, 2024

"Crazy Little Guitar Man"

Photo of green tomato with Maple Seedpods.

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

"Fresh and Dead"

Painting in India ink, 2020.

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2021.

"Animal Vegetable Mineral, Part 5"

Acrylic paint and liquid on black surface, 2020.

"Forbidden Planet" Painting in acrylic from 2021.

"Forbidden Planet"

Cartoon in MUJI pen and watercolor, June, 2024

Photo of wild mushroom and cicada shell, 2023.

Watercolor washes, 2023

"All The Young Dudes"

Photo of Bok Choy vegetable, October, 2024

Cartoon in MUJI pen with washes, November, 2024,

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

" The Buoyant Boy"

"RED!"

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

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, January, 2025.

"The Atlantic Conflagration Grouper and the Mediterranean Muddy Mullet"

"Brave Traveler" Acrylic painting, 2019

"Brave Traveler"

Photograph of Boo Choy Vegetable, February 18, 2025.

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

"Cooking School"

Abstract painting in watercolor, from 2020.

"Continental Drifters"

Painting in gouache, September, 2024

"Crosstown Traffic"

Painting in Gouache and Colored Pencil.

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

"Cabbages" Photo from 2022

"Cabbage Patch"

Watercolor paintings of cephalopods from 2020.

"Cephalo - Series, Number 1"

Cephalopod painting in India Ink, 2024.

"Armed Services"

Fish Painting in gouache, November 24, 2024.

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

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms

Fungus Among Us

Photograph of guitar neck and plant, June, 2025.

"Shapes Of Things"

Photo of rusted hot rod at auto graveyard, 2023.

Photo of Stratocaster style electric guitar, July 2024

"Strato-sphere"

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

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

"Space Is The Place"

Acrylic paints rolled with ink brayer on black surface.

Somewhere Below

Pepper Flower

Photo of wild mushrooms on red backdrop with LED illumination

Painting in acrylic on black surface, August, 2025.

"Space Is The Place"

Painting in gouache, June, 2025.

"The Southern Ocean Breaststroke Quartet"

Painting in gouache, October, 2024.

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

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, September, 2024.

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

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, May, 2025.

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

Watercolor wash 2024.

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

" A Plutocrat In A Hat"

Photograph of bananas, February, 2025.

Gouache washes and colored pencils, July, 2024

The Painted Deep

Painting with marker, June 2025.

Photo of luthier Jeff Baxendale, 2021.

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

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

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

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

Photo of archtop jazz guitars 2024

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"My Pet Microbes"

Photo of acoustic bass violins using iPhone SE, 2023

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

"A Banjo & His Boy"

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

"The Dark Realm"

The Raven. Painting in Gouache, 2024

"Quoth The Raven."

Gouache painting of imaginary fish, June, 2024.

Painting in gouache, 2024.

Photo of elephant ear plant, October, 2024.

Painting in gouache, April, 2025.

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

Painting in gouache, November 26, 2024.

"The Southern Sibilant Soul Snatcher"

Watercolor of imaginary squid and fish in motion, 2021.

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

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms, October, 2024.