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

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I draw people's faces from my imagination without a visual source or model, usually with MUJI craft pens and colored pencil. This cartoon is from June, 2024.

David Chamberlain

David Chamberlain

Venue: Virtual OPEN Exhibit

Classification: Adult Amateur

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Abstract painting with watercolor wash and colored pencils, 2024.

"The Microscopic World"

Ink Drawing, October, 2024

"People On Paper"

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

Painting in Gouache and colored pencil, August, 2025.

"Mid-Ocean Menagerie"

Painting in India ink, 2020.

"Rush Hour" Watercolor, 2022

Painting in India ink with washes, 2023.

Photo of rusted hot rod at auto graveyard, 2023.

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

"Long Ago", watercolor painting from 2021.

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2021.

"Animal Vegetable Mineral, Part 5"

Photograph of cactus blossoms, May 1, 2025.

Photo of cabbage leaves. November 24, 2024.

"Brave Traveler" Acrylic painting, 2019

"Brave Traveler"

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

Watercolor washes, 2023

"All The Young Dudes"

Cartoon in MUJI pen and watercolor, June, 2024

Photograph of blossom, April 20, 2025.

"The Fires Of Spring"

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

"Faces Of Food"

Photo of bell pepper, December 14, 2024.

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

"Fresh and Dead"

Painting in India ink.

Painting in Watercolor, 2023

"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"

Photograph of guitar neck and plant, June, 2025.

"Shapes Of Things"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, February, 2025

"The Balkan Belch Bass and the South Atlantic Scatfish"

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms

Fungus Among Us

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

"A Banjo & His Boy"

Photograph of Oyster Mushrooms, April 12, 2025.

Painting in gouache, April, 2025.

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

Acrylic paint and liquid on black surface, 2020.

Photo of Sunflower, July 2, 2025.

"Sunflower In Decline"

Watercolor wash.

Photo of acoustic bass violins using iPhone SE, 2023

Watercolor, 2021

"The Kerguelen Islands Crested Vampire Roach."

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, from 2020.

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

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

" A Plutocrat In A Hat"

Painting in acrylic, May 1, 2025.

"The Oceans Of Space Are Calling"

Photograph of banana leaf, August, 2025.

Photograph of Boo Choy Vegetable, February 18, 2025.

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

"The Dark Realm"

Photo of 1950s Pontiac automobile.

Painting with marker, June 2025.

Painting in acrylic on black surface, August, 2025.

"Space Is The Place"

Photo of Stratocaster style electric guitar, July 2024

"Strato-sphere"

Lizard photo, June, 2024. iPhone SE.

"Suburban Dinosaur"

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

Photograph of Hosta plant, May 25, 2025.

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

Abstract painting in watercolor, from 2020.

"Continental Drifters"

Painting in gouache, November 26, 2024.

"The Southern Sibilant Soul Snatcher"

Painting with broad tipped pens, June 28, 2025.

"Rhythm Section"

Watercolor on Polyprophylene film.

Photo of archtop jazz guitars 2024

"The Aquarelles" watercolor painting, 2021.

"The Aquarelles"

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

"Midnight Mood"

Gouache painting of imaginary fish, June, 2024.

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

Painting in gouache, June, 2025.

"The Southern Ocean Breaststroke Quartet"

Watercolor wash 2024.

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

Photo of Bok Choy vegetable, October, 2024

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"My Pet Microbes"

Painting in gouache, February 2025.

"Five Unpopular and Inedible Fruits"

"RED!"

"Forbidden Planet" Painting in acrylic from 2021.

"Forbidden Planet"

"Cabbages" Photo from 2022

"Cabbage Patch"

Water Color and India Ink Witch

Photo of wild mushroom and cicada shell, 2023.

Photo of elephant ear plant, October, 2024.

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

Watercolor of imaginary squid and fish in motion, 2021.

"Water Brothers" Watercolor, June 2024

Photo of Oyster Mushrooms, October, 2024.

Painting in gouache, September, 2024

"Crosstown Traffic"

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

Painting in watercolor and colored pencil, 2021

"Mid-Ocean Museum"

Painting in India ink, 2021.

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

Cartoon in ink and colored pencil, 2024

"Crazy Little Guitar Man"

Acrylic paints rolled with ink brayer on black surface.

Somewhere Below

Photograph of bananas, February, 2025.

"Just Below", painting in gouache, 2024

Painting in Gouache and Colored Pencil.

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

Photo of wild mushrooms on red backdrop with LED illumination

Fish Painting in gouache, November 24, 2024.

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

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, September, 2024.

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

Painting in gouache, 2024.

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, January, 2025.

"The Atlantic Conflagration Grouper and the Mediterranean Muddy Mullet"

Painting in gouache and colored pencils, May, 2025.

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

Painting in Gouache, December, 2024.

"The Mysterious Traveler"

Cephalopod painting in India Ink, 2024.

"Armed Services"

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

"Space Is The Place"

Painting in watercolor, 2022.

"The Southern Hopping Porcupine Turtle "

The Raven. Painting in Gouache, 2024

"Quoth The Raven."

" The Living Ocean" Gouache painting, September, 2024

"The Living Ocean"

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

"Cooking School"

Gouache washes and colored pencils, July, 2024

The Painted Deep

"Profile In Water"

Painting in gouache, October, 2024.

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

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

" The Buoyant Boy"

Photo of green tomato with Maple Seedpods.

Photograph of wild mushrooms, August, 2025.

"Fungus Among Us"

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

Photo of luthier Jeff Baxendale, 2021.

Watercolor paintings of cephalopods from 2020.

"Cephalo - Series, Number 1"

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

Two fishes. Painting in gouache, December, 2024.

"The Veridian Vigorous Virginfish and the Vermilion Vestal Vesperfish"

Pepper Flower

Cartoon in MUJI pen with washes, November, 2024,

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

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

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

"Deep Encounter"