michael chamberlain

Click here to bid Daily Paintworks  has come up with a really fun idea, it's called the " DPW Challenge ". I noticed the cha...

I decided to stick with the glass theme. Clear reflective objects can be such a challenge to paint. There's a lot going on. You've...

I decided to work a bit more work on glass. I've got to go to the Salvation Army and look for some good bottles and glasses to pain...

I was forty five minutes into this painting and it wasn't really working. I stepped back about five feet and it became obvious. Wow......

I've got to get organized! There are a lot of things I didn't foresee when taking the daily painting plunge. For one, I'v...

I've been trying to decide what these peculiar little eggplants look like ... shorebirds maybe? I was surprised at how much red there ...

Painting red objects can be a challenge. I try to create a convincing sense of light in my paintings by pushing the warm/cool relationship...

This is NOT my sneaker. Not that there is anything wrong with a man wearing pink shoes. Ok.. on a more serious note,  I've had troubl...

I've considered painting this salt shaker for quite a while. It's been in my kitchen for at least ten years and I use it eve...

Since my glass painting didn't turn out I figured I'd post a larger painting that I just finished. It's 28x22" which is t...

I thought it would be fun to try a sort of monochromatic painting of plums. The first was a wipe out as usual. I like this one though. I...

I had a few wipe outs painting these peppers. They have a translucent quality that I wasn't quite capturing. It was frustrating but I...

This cucumber was in the refrigerator way longer than it should have been. I don't think it would have been very good eatin' bu...

Click here to bid I had to do three kiwi paintings before I was happy with the result. The first one was a wipe out. In the second one the...

I've wanted to paint jacks for a while but to be honest the idea made me nervous. I wondered how I'd paint something so detailed i...

More fun with thick paint! I went and saw the Van Gogh and Gauguin show at the De Young about a month ago . I had only seen Van Gogh in pr...

When I first finished this painting I wasn't very happy about it. The painting looked way too careful. I decided I might as well ...

These aren't very good brushes to paint with but they make fun paintings subjects. They're pretty old I think... from the seventies...

I gave the pomegranates another try. I just found out that the seeds are called arils. So I made the arils a deeper red this time. This was...

When I first started painting I was primarily inspired by landscapes. One exciting difference I'm noticing with still life is the oppo...

I was feeling inspired to paint something unusual so I figured I'd give these coins a try. My daughter and I had recently rolled em up....

I wasn't sure this was going to work. I wanted to paint the seeds without getting too detailed. I suppose I wanted to "suggest...

Wow... this was a challenge for sure. Coloring with crayons = easy, painting them = yikes. It's funny how adding the dark little patter...

I picked these apples at my daughter's school. We were there doing the annual clean up and I couldn't resist grabbing a few for a p...

Well I bought a sheet of masonite from Lowe's and cut it up into 6x6" inch squares. You can get a lot of panels out of a 4x8...